Northlight. Frames

The studio

Northlight Frames is one person, a car with a bad heater, and a room above a chandlery that smells permanently of varnish. Most of the work here comes from long walks with a tripod and a thermos, usually in the months when nobody else is out.

The studio has been running since 2013. It started as a way to justify the walking and became a way to pay for it.

Commissions

Limited to a handful each year — architecture, small industrial sites, and the occasional editorial assignment. Turnaround is slow on purpose: a building looks different in November than it does in June, and I would rather wait for the right month than deliver the wrong one.

Typical engagement is two site visits and a set of twenty finished frames, delivered as high-resolution files with a limited commercial licence. Extended licensing is negotiable and rarely expensive.

Equipment

Bodies

Two medium-format backs for tripod work, one 35 mm body for handheld days when the weather refuses to cooperate.

Glass

Mostly 40 mm and 90 mm. Nothing exotic, nothing borrowed.

Output

Pigment prints on matte cotton rag. Larger sizes are drum-scanned from film, which is slower and better.

Enquiries

Write to hello@photo.auragg.space. For prints, include the size and where it is going to hang — the light in the room changes the paper choice more than people expect. For commissions, a paragraph about the site and a rough month is enough to start.

I answer everything, though not always quickly. If a week has passed, it usually means I am somewhere without signal rather than ignoring you.