Edmund Sumner harbors the sort of keen eye adept at coaxing new perspectives of color, light, scale and detail within architectural spaces you might have seen several times over ? a skill born of patience and curiosity. We witnessed his process in action while traveling together during last year’s Amman Design Week. He’s since curated a selection of personal photos culled from 20 years of shooting architecture and interiors for the likes of Architectural Review, Domus Magazine, and Tadao Ando and Associates intended to transfer some of his personal memories onto the walls of architecture lovers.
The Leaning Man ? ?????? ??? \ A scene taken early one morning in 2016 outside the High Court designed by the Swiss Architect Le Corbusier in Chandigarh, India Detail of Kengo Kuma’s Lotus house 2006
Sumner’s prints are evocative of those spare and rare moments when architecture is experienced in silence and solitude, inviting thoughts of the interaction between our own senses in relation to scale, surface and light.
Tetsuka House – T ??? ??? \ A traditional tea house within a modernist house in Tokyo, Japan ? shot for architect John Pawson
Tetsuka House – D ??? ??? 2002 \ Dusk at a modernist house in Tokyo Japan
The following pair of photos rank as our personal favorites, a diptyque of  Inagawa, a cemetery in rural japan designed by British Architect David Chipperfield. The two photos capture the same space first in the morning, then the evening...