Resource Design Interiors — Peter Lyons Pictures

I photographed RDI (Resource Design Interiors) at their San Francisco workplace, a long-established design and contract furnishings agency primarily based in South Park. The objective was to indicate their workspace throughout a typical day — capturing the atmosphere the place their designers and undertaking managers collaborate, the small print that form their course of, and group portraits that replicate the tradition of the corporate. I used to be additionally tasked with highlighting little design moments all through the workplace — components of décor, materials decisions, and curated objects that talk to the agency’s artistic vibe and function a sort of muse for his or her workforce. They’ve been extraordinarily deliberate about how their house appears and feels, and that character was an essential a part of the story. Projects like this fall into what I’d name workplace inside images or office images — a technique to seize not simply the folks, but in addition the atmosphere that evokes them.

To do that properly, I labored in a method that mixes actual moments with what I name styled candids. That means I information folks simply sufficient to ensure the sunshine, the angle, and the composition are working, however the interactions nonetheless really feel pure. True candids can typically look a bit of haphazard, whereas styled candids maintain the authenticity but in addition look polished {and professional}. It’s a steadiness that makes the ultimate photographs learn as each approachable and editorial — precisely what companies like RDI need when exhibiting their office.

This strategy works particularly properly for design studios, structure companies, and different artistic workplaces that wish to showcase their folks as a lot as their tasks. By photographing groups in motion, spotlighting intentional design particulars, and capturing the general environment of the house, the photographs inform a narrative that goes past headshots or staged advertising photographs. It’s about exhibiting the power of collaboration in a approach that feels real, whereas nonetheless assembly the excessive requirements {of professional} architectural and inside images.