Photography
Light, frames, and the pictures that explain a room instead of flattering it.
Field Notes from Baton Rouge
Brandt Asay
Architect and photographer. Notes on light, rooms, and the order that lets a place breathe.
Four subjects, one desk
The drawing and the camera showed up as the same habit. The journal keeps them in the same place.
Architecture
Plans, porches, and the ordinary houses of Baton Rouge, drawn from the light inward.
Interiors
Furniture, cloth, paint, and the few objects a room actually needs.
Order
Drawers, trays, and the small plans that keep a house from performing confusion.
Named work
Six rooms in Baton Rouge. A porch, a shotgun, a kitchen, a studio, a court, and a house put back.
2019
The Deep Porch
2021
Three Rooms in a Line
2022
Kitchen Toward the Yard
2020
The Room Above the Shop
2023
Shade the Size of a Parking Space
2024
A House Put Back
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Afternoon light on a Baton Rouge porch
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Photographing a shotgun house without flattening it
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River fog and the Mississippi bridge
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Humidity, haze, and the lens
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Window light in a south-facing kitchen
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The raised house and the air under it
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The measured room
A plan is a bet about how a body moves. A photograph is the bet collected. The about page is the longer version of that sentence.