About Copland Photography

I didn't pick up a camera and decide to photograph interiors.

I built them first.

Years of it. kitchens, wardrobes, living room cabinets, boot rooms, utility spaces. The whole range of built-in furniture that makes a home feel considered rather than assembled. I knew how every piece went together because I'd put it together myself.

Somewhere along the way, I started photographing the work too. Nothing formal at first, just wanting to document what we'd made before it disappeared into someone's home. But I got better at it, and eventually I was making the spaces and shooting them.

When that chapter ended, I had to work out what came next. I'd spent long enough in that world to know how much craft goes into a well-made room. I'd also spent long enough to know that most of it never gets seen properly.

So I made the photography a thing.

The way I move around a space on a shoot, the things I stop to look at, the moments I wait for, it's not just a photographer's instinct. It's a maker's eye looking for what's true about a room. The junction between two materials. The shadow a handle throws at a certain time of day. The decision someone made about a detail that nobody asked them to think that hard about.

I'm based in Bath and work across the South West - primarily with hospitality businesses, kitchen designers, interior designers and makers. Places and people where the quality of the work deserves to be seen properly.

Selected clients The Star Inn, Highlittleton, Vicky Elmore Kitchens The Kitchen Den, Bristol, The Bath Framer, PerfectSpace Carpentry, The Corston Wheatsheaf, The Milking Shed