Withers & Marcy, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

 

Subject: 3 Buildings in Williamsburg
Client: Patoma
Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Project Date: June 18th-19th, 2021


The Brief

Real estate development team Patoma reached out to me about photographing three buildings in Williamsburg.

They were referred to me by long time friend and client Moiz Malik who is rebuilding their website and informed them of the need for high quality imagery of their most valuable projects, which will be critical in raising their next round of funding. It’s the proverbial ‘show your work’ situation. Patoma has been in business for years buying and renovating buildings, but this is their first foray into hiring a professional photographer to shoot them.

We started with discussing scope of work -

Three buildings in need of exterior photography:

44-50 Withers Street, which houses the very successful Llama Inn Restaurant. They recently added an outdoor structure and seating to the patio in front of the building, and our objective was to show off their excellent utilization of the corner property.

52-58 Marcy Avenue, which houses the daytime eatery Gertie. Gertie also has the recent addition of a sidewalk structure, again showing how the space’s usage can be maximized. The building itself has a sleek black corrugated steel facade we wanted to show off.

20-26 Marcy Avenue, which currently has no commercial tenants, but does feature a striking corrugated steel facade along with perforated steel coverings over part of the window to add privacy while allowing for a massive window view from within.

More on this project to come in a future update.

Mid-Century Residence

There are few things that make for a more exciting photo project than showing up on location to find that the place is already beautifully decorated and filled with sunlight. They had so much nice stuff here that I was really struggling with deciding what to remove to simplify the images. There we so many cool items and SO MANY PLANTS! Every house needs so many more plants. I need more plants. But these homeowners have it down. You should also also know that they found, I said FOUND, the  massive cacti in the living room and stairwell. There was so much more of this beautiful mid-century modern house that I wish we could have gotten to, but our shoot focused on the kitchen and took most of the day. But trust me, the rest of it is just as gorgeous.

Mid-Century Residence
Client: Imperia Cabinet, Purekitchen
Silver Lake, Staten Island, New York
Project Date: March 23rd, 2017