Church Gig Brings Andrew Buchanan Full Circle
As an architectural, interior and land-design photographer, Andrew Buchanan often works with designers and marketing pros to show off finished projects, share great new concepts, and demonstrate specific lifestyles. His clients will be the first to tell you that his work is technically brilliant, but Andrew believes that sometimes it’s the raw emotion behind each image that gives every shot its own special feel.
In fact, he traces his successful sixteen-year career to an emotional moment in the late 1990s. The would-be artist was visiting his brother in the U.S. armed services, then stationed in England. During the trip to the U.K., Andrew decided to indulge his love of history by photographing stone churches, many of which were up to 800 years old—and it was then the young man started realizing he could make a living doing this.
Recently that epiphany from bygone days came full circle when Andrew completed his “photographer’s dream job”: shooting a suburban Episcopal church, inside and out, for a forthcoming coffee table book.
“I spent several days simply making beautiful images that highlighted the very best features of the church,” Andrew shares, and while he greatly enjoys his regular routine of shooting residential and commercial spaces, hotel projects and other “destination properties,” it was this church gig that brought his love of history and photography together once again.
“I try to remind myself every day how lucky I am to make my living doing what I love to do,” Andrew says. “I hope my images show that passion, every time.”
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