How to Find a Great Architectural Photographer in Kyoto

When commissioning architectural photography, how should you choose a photographer?

We recommend starting with their past work. Look beyond whether the building is shown wide and clean: check verticals and horizontals, light, materials, exteriors and interiors, day and night — and whether the architect’s intent comes through in the photos.

Architectural photography serves as a record. But for websites and advertising, you also need photos that make people want to visit the space. That’s why it matters that a photographer can capture both the whole space and its details, switching between wide, standard, telephoto and shift lenses rather than relying on wide angles alone.

Based in Kyoto, LS STUDIO photographs architecture, completed projects and interiors — hotels, shops, homes and large facilities — with aerial photography by drone or Cessna and mood shots as needed.

Photographs that record architecture, and photographs that let people feel it. We care about delivering both.