A morning session along the Pergola — the long Edwardian walkway high above Hampstead Heath, columns wrapped in vines and the gardens falling away on either side. The shoot moves through arches and shaded passages, composed and unhurried in one of London's quieter pieces of architecture.
Columns, vines, and morning shade —
a composed walk along the Pergola.
The Pergola has a quality of light that's hard to find anywhere else in London — soft, filtered through the vines, falling in long patterns across the stone. Thurka and Ajay travelled from Switzerland for the session, and the space did most of the composing for us. We just had to move through it slowly.
The Pergola is one of those places that's been photographed thousands of times and somehow still rewards attention. Each arch reframes the same view differently. By the time we'd worked the length of it, Thurka and Ajay had stopped thinking about the camera and started moving with the architecture itself.
The best sessions aren't directed — they're released. My job is to create the conditions where you stop thinking about the camera. Everything after that is real.
— Varun
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