Arsalan combines a decade of experience as a professional photographer and a decade of experience as a practicing architect to create thoughtful imagery of the built environment.
He graduated from NC State University's College of Design in 2015 as valedictorian of his class, also being honored with the Faculty Award for Design Achievement. A licensed architect, he has spent the first part of his career at international design firm Perkins&Will, playing a key role in the design of award-winning buildings in the public realm, including museums, libraries, hospitals, and higher education projects. He also oversees architectural photoshoots for the North Carolina practice, acting as a liaison between marketing directors, designers, and photographers. This breadth of experience gives him unique insight into effectively collaborating with clients to tell the stories of their projects with his own photography.
Capture the big idea
Capturing the SOCIAL/CULTURAL impact of the building’s design (beyond the aesthetic of the building, focusing on its emotional response)
...and the small ones.
Capturing the SOCIAL/CULTURAL impact of the building’s design (beyond the aesthetic of the building, focusing on its emotional response)
Shift your focus; tell the full story.
Whether a project has a broad social impact or a more personal one, centering users' emotional response to and experience of a space can be a powerful complement to images of its architecture.
With a background in lifestyle and wedding photography, I am attuned to capturing human interaction journalistically.
Look before you leap.
Whenever possible, visiting a project ahead of time is key to my process. Scouting allows us to identify obstacles, items that need coordination, and key views of focus.
A Little About Me
Over many years, I have honed an appreciation for the textures of everyday life: shadows shifting with time, the subtle glimpse of emotion in someone's face, or a dapple of light on concrete. Trained as an architect, I approach photography through the same lens with which I view the built world – with a thoughtful eye for light, composition, and poetry.
Photography, to me, is about eternalizing this beauty so that we can keep a little of its magic with us.
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