Architecture & Interiors – Photography by Markel Redondo
Architecture & Interiors brings together a body of work exploring how buildings hold memory, light, and the marks of the people who inhabit them. Photographed across the Basque Country and southwest France, the series moves between restored stone farmhouses, contemporary interiors, and vineyard architecture — spaces where old materials and new design choices sit side by side, and where the history of a building is never fully erased by its renovation.
Redondo approaches architecture with the same documentary sensibility that defines his editorial work. Rather than treating buildings as static objects, his images look for the moments where structure meets daily life: a doorway framing someone walking between rooms, morning light falling across a stone wall, a kitchen caught mid-use rather than staged for the camera. This attention to texture and human presence sets the work apart from conventional architectural photography, which often empties a space of any trace of life in pursuit of a cleaner, more commercial image. Here, the opposite is true — a house is more convincing, and more memorable, when it still feels lived in.
The series also reflects an ongoing engagement with landscape and place, a thread that runs through much of Redondo’s long-term documentary work. Many of the buildings featured are set within their surrounding terrain — vineyards, hillsides, gravel courtyards, wooded slopes — and photographed to show that relationship rather than isolating the structure from its context. A house is rarely just a house; it is also a response to wind, light, altitude, and the particular geology of a place. Aerial perspectives, captured through Redondo Aerial, extend this approach further, offering views that connect a building to the land it sits on and the way it was designed to respond to that context. Seen from above, the logic of a roofline, a courtyard, or a planted boundary becomes clear in a way that ground-level photography alone cannot always convey.
Working across both interior and exterior spaces, Redondo pays close attention to material: worn stone, oak beams, glazed tile, corten steel, plaster, reclaimed wood. These details are treated not as decorative flourishes but as evidence of craftsmanship and time — part of what gives a space its particular character and distinguishes a considered renovation from a merely cosmetic one. The same care extends to interiors furnished with intention, where inherited furniture, contemporary design pieces, and personal objects accumulate into something that feels specific rather than generic. This is photography that resists the flattening effect of stock interior imagery, in which every space begins to look like every other space.
The result is a body of work that sits between documentary photography and architectural record — precise enough to serve architects, interior designers, and construction professionals who need images that communicate materials, proportion, and light with accuracy, but shaped by the same patient, observational eye found throughout Redondo’s broader practice, from his long-term project Sand Castles to his editorial assignments for The New York Times, Le Monde, and Télérama. That dual fluency, between commercial precision and editorial depth, is what the work aims to offer: images that function as a professional record of a project while also standing on their own as photography.
This gallery presents a curated selection of architecture and interiors photography, spanning private residences, vineyard properties, and heritage renovations. It is available for architecture firms, interior designers, hospitality projects, and AEC clients across the Basque Country, southwest France, and northern Spain, with the option to combine ground photography and aerial data capture within a single commission.
Keywords: architecture photography Basque Country, interiors photography Spain, stone farmhouse renovation photography, vineyard architecture photography, aerial architecture photography, AEC photography France Spain, Markel Redondo photographer, editorial architecture photography, drone architecture photography, heritage renovation photography.
