Hello, I’m Ines.
I am a photographer with a studio in Oslo. I photograph rooms, and the people who work in them — houses, restaurants, hotels, and the places where things are made.
Interiors are photographed the way the room already is, at the hour the light suits it. That usually means two visits: one to walk through and agree the hours, and one to work. Nothing is styled into existence that was not there.
Some of my other favorite things? Sitting in a waterfront café in Oslo, reading a good mystery novel and chatting with the birds. I moved here from London in adulthood, for the steep wooden streets lined with painted houses and the light in July, and I have not been tempted back.
I don’t just see the world in textures, colors, and light, but I feel them. I make the small details feel big, and the quiet parts of a room feel noticed. I work in the background, gathering the frames that piece a building together.
Whether it is one room before it opens or a whole house at the end of a year’s work, write with the brief and the dates and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right fit for it.
- Capabilities
- Interiors, architecture and hospitality. Stills, and short film on request. A day for a house, half a day for a flat or a restaurant.
- Deliverables
- A full edited set of whole frames, delivered online, plus prints and hand-bound sets from the same files.
- Licensing
- Stills licensed for the uses agreed in the brief, twelve months by default and extendable. Architects, designers and stylists credited wherever the pictures run.
- Commissions
- Editorial and commercial work, in Norway and elsewhere. Write with the brief and the dates.
Three commissions, one slow room at a time.
Every commission is photographed by me, from the walk-through to the last frame, and delivered as a full edited set. Commissions begin at kr 18,000; most clients choose The Building.
Half a day, for one flat, one restaurant, or one finished room.
- Four hours on site, in the hours we agree
- A full edited set of whole frames
- An online set, and a twelve-month license for the agreed uses
A full day, outside and in — the commission most clients choose.
- A full day on site, first light to lamps
- A full edited set of whole frames
- An online set and a fine-art print of the one
- A walk-through beforehand, to agree the rooms and the hours
Two or three days, for hotels and buildings that need more than one light.
- Two or three days on site
- A full edited set from every day
- An online set and a hand-bound book of the project
- Travel and a night’s stay within Norway included
Hand-bound books can be added to any commission from kr 6,500. A deposit of kr 5,000 holds the dates; the rest is due two weeks after delivery.
How it goes
On the days
Some houses sit high enough above the water that the light arrives from three sides across a day, which is a gift and a scheduling problem in equal measure. We walk the rooms once beforehand and write down, room by room, the hour each one wants.
Sometimes the whole argument of a house is one arched window at the end of the upper room, and the hour it is worth photographing lasts about forty minutes. The day is booked around it and everything else is made in the hours either side.
Nothing is styled into existence. The flowers on a table are the ones already cut that morning, and the chairs sit where the house keeps them.
If the family comes home in the late afternoon I keep working for another hour. A house being lived in photographs differently from one that has been tidied for a camera, and the difference is worth the hour.
She gave the hall two afternoons rather than one, because the first one was wrong. That is the part I would pay for again.
An architect in Oslo