Simone Bossi has adopted a "slow process" of architectural photography, using film rather than digital, which he says allows him to depict buildings more truthfully.
Italian photographer Bossi is fast establishing himself as one of the leading names in architectural photography.
He told Dezeen that, unlike many other photographers in this field, he only takes between 20 and 30 photographs of each building he shoots.
"All my reportage is one picture per position," he said. "I just take my shot and then I proceed. Maybe it's the wrong one, but in that moment it was right."
Simone Bossi is becoming a leading name in architectural photography
At a time when digital photography makes it easy to take hundreds of photos on each shoot and correct mistakes in the edit, he prefers to spend more time thinking than shooting, to ensure that every picture is carefully considered. Digital makes it too easy to correct
This approach stems from Bossi's use of a large-format, analogue camera. It is a format that was once common among architectural photographers but has become rare following the advancement of digital cameras.
Although Bossi started out shooting with digital, he switched to analogue to force himself to "respect the moment of the click".
He believes the use of digital cameras leads architectural photography to become too contrived; he claims it's better to appreciate the beauty of imperfections than it is to make images feel too pol...