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.

Cebu Bar & Bistro - Interiors

It's funny how one thing leads to another. I photographed the Mid-Century Residence for my cabinet client Imperia. Around the same time the homeowner was in the middle of planning to take photos of his restaurant. He saw my images and said "we need this guy." So we talked through everything that they needed and it was a full shoot of both the space and the menu. The partners have owned this restaurant for 16 years and it's their baby, and they'd never had professional pictures made of it. It was exciting to be entrusted with showing off the place they'd put so many years into. The shoot took place over three days:

1. Interiors
2. Food
3. Cocktails, Interior Details, and an exterior twilight. We added on some brunch dishes, too.

Here are the images produced from day one, along with some of the details and the exterior from day three.

Cebu Bar & Bistro, Architecture / Interiors
Client: Cebu Bar & Bistro
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Project Date: May 8th, 2017