Second Wallpaper* Magazine feature this month with images from a shoot of Dior’s Paris-inspired pop-up takeover of Harrods with a giant ‘Plan de Paris’ motif featured across the facade and several popup spaces for the arrival of MariaGrazia Chiuri’s AW 2023 womenswear collection ..read more

My Images from a recent shoot of Celine’s new Parfumerie installation in Harrods can be seen in Wallpaper* Magazine ..read more

This June’s issue of Wallpaper* Magazine features a glossy double page spread image from my photography of David Collins Studio’s Velvet cocktail bar in the luxury Corinthia London Hotel ..read more

The Stock House by Orms Architects. Images: Copyright © Alex Upton Proceeding on from my previous blog entry, with the chasm in between filled by 382 rising and retreating motions of the sun, those disposed to pick up on such details - most notably Google’s search algorithms, which have undoubtedly interpreted my dormant blog as a measure of irrelevance and relegated me to the basement of search results for architectural photographers - might be led to deduce an extended period of inertia on my part. But for any of those visitors venturing beyond this blog you may have noticed the incremental ..read more

100 Bishopsgate, Interior office design by ID:SR. Images: Copyright © Alex Upton In the early autumn of 2020, when normality, accompanied by a faithful companion complacency, appeared to have tentatively returned to our daily lives. A time when workers were finally jettisoning their ‘work from home’ attire - lower-body: pyjamas, upper-body: vaguely presentable shirt - and relinquishing the prospect of conducting any further business meetings through a pixelated portal from the comfort of their beds, I was commissioned by Sheppard Robson architects to photograph the new office spaces their int ..read more

The Mole House by Adjaye Associates. Images: Copyright © Alex Upton While trying to stifle the ever encroaching sense of ennui which was permeating my inner being during the final stages of the first lockdown, and before an existential crisis peaked, I decided to pick-up my camera, mount a Boris bike and venture out into the last days of what had been a wonderful summer (in terms of weather). Heading for Hackney with a friend, we decided to seek out some of the local, off the beaten path, architecture. Browsing through the latest architectural and design publications you would be forgiven for ..read more

Architecture under lockdown: The Tate Modern. Images: Copyright © Alex Upton Inner cities under the lock-down quickly transformed into spectral voids of human activity. With the actors gone, only the stage was left, the props and backdrops to life patiently awaiting the next act. With the gradual easing of restrictions, people cautiously reemerged back into the spaces they once inhabited, only to find the buildings they frequented now existing as no more than architectural sculptures; without utility. No longer possessing a familiar function, an unconscious dérive began to take place - a re-p ..read more

At a time when visiting a restaurant seems like a distant memory and the sound of the Ocado van pulling up outside is about as close to a culinary rush of euphoria that we can expect, what better than to reminisce over the settings of an opulent fine dining experience. The interior photography I completed of Yen London - a high-end Japanese restaurant - for interior architects Sybarite can be your catalyst into this journey of fine dining nostalgia. Originally completed in 2017, interior designers Sybarite commissioned me to photograph the space in late 2019 before a possible change of hands ..read more

St George’s College Weybridge Sports Centre by Scott Brownrigg Architects. Photography: Copyright © Alex Upton Just before the decade drew to an close I was commissioned to photograph the interior of a new activity centre at St George's College in Weybridge. If memories of my own schools sports hall were anything to go by, this wasn’t going to be a project to get too excited about. Upon arrival it became apparent that the school I had attended and this were leagues apart in what facilities they had to offer. This new high-tech, 6-court, 4,000m² sports hall designed by UK based architectural p ..read more

3 Broadgate, London by Orms Architects 2019. Photography: Copyright © Alex Upton Hidden beneath the shimmering skin of Orms Architects new 3 Broadgate building is a structure descending from the 1980’s which once served as a marketing suite for the Broadgate estate. While retaining the cylindrical form of its predecessor Orms have hollowed out an archway at ground level opening the space to the public. As you are channelled through this new space a coffee shop greets you at one side while entry to the 3 floors above can be gained from the other. Architectural photography of 3 Broadgate’s str ..read more