Work · Art direction · 2026

Quiet Pictures

Nine stills, each one idea in an ordinary place.

A white wooden chair standing on the yellow center line of a wet two-lane road at night, pines on both sides.
Kind
Self-initiated, no client
My part
Art direction
Delivered
  • Nine finished stills
  • Four landscape, five portrait

About the piece

These are the studio’s own launch images. A key image has to work alone, small, with no caption. The rule for the series: one subject, an ordinary place, and nothing that breaks the laws of the room. The strangeness is in where a thing stands, not in what it does.

The series

  • A lit doorway at the end of a dark hall. A small figure stands in the orange light.
    Somebody Left the Light On
  • A woman in a mint-green coat stands with her back to us, facing a wall of the same green in an empty waiting room.
    Next, Please
  • One pressed pink rose, small and low on a sheet of cream paper.
    Kept
  • An empty pink swimming pool. A folded towel lies on the floor and leaves have gathered on the steps.
    Last Summer
  • A rounded 1930s-style diner in fog with dark windows, beside a wet road.
    Closed Mondays
  • A young man in a dark suit sits on a motel bed and looks straight out of the picture. A slice of white cake sits on a plate beside him.
    Before the Toast
  • Black and white. A man in a suit stands in a hotel corridor holding lilies down at his side.
    Delivery for 6B
  • A floor lamp, switched on, beside the guardrail of a mountain overlook at dusk.
    Overlook

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