Edmund Sumner
Edmund Sumner is an internationally highly regarded architecture photographer. For over 20 years his work has been commissioned by leading architects, publishers, editors and curators, who value the quality of his work distilling and conveying the character and essence of buildings and interior space and that his work transcends any functional and technical remit.
Alongside commissioned work Edmund Sumner has built up an impressive body of private artistic work continuously exploring the principle and potential of architecture photography as ‘the test of time frozen’
Edmund Sumner’s work is widely published. Publications include: Architecture of Eden (Transworld 2004), New Architecture in Japan (Merrell, 2010), Architecture of the Olympics (Wiley, 2012) and Indian House (Thames and Hudson 2020). Solo exhibitions include ‘Human Landscapes’ at Browse & Darby (2006) and ‘Outside the Box – Images of Contemporary Architecture’ at Daiwa Foundation (2011)
Stories
Cavea Arcari
Urban Colour Palette
Ahangama
Chandigarh
Chandigarh, the capital of the northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, was designed by the Swiss-French modernist architect, Le Corbusier. His buildings include the Capitol Complex with its High Court, Secretariat and Legislative Assembly and the Neelam Cinema.
INAGAWA
Inagawa AM PM is an interpretive series of images shot at a cemetery designed by David Chipperfield architects in rural Japan. The space has a powerful presence and the changing moods between light and dark an appropriate metaphor for the buildings central purpose, to provide a calm dignified space to meditate on life, death and what comes after.
Human Landscapes
In our industrial and post industrial world the notion of landscape as something distinctly different and separate from human activity has increasingly become an untenable concept. The benefits that people derive from landscapes depend not only on what kinds of ecosystems are present, but also on who uses them and how. The concept of ‘Human Landscape’ – subject of interdisciplinary research and social debate – explores the interdependence of landscape and human activity as a key to understanding our role in the modern world. Edmund Sumner’s photography reflects on the concept of Human Landscape. His images set markers and mile highlighting how man – through cultural and industrial activities/acts for better and for worse shapes the landscape; and simultaneously how man’s cultural and industrial activities are shaped by the landscape.
