Readers' Showcase: Luis dos Santos

Nice work. I think they should be regarded as the photographer's own work because it's not so easy to photograph such subjects with such angles, or without people.

These are great and I am not very interested in whether they are art or craftsmanship. In fact I often find the distinction meaningless. Well, no actually I think they are very much both. Must finally try to get to grips with HDR.

Sorry, but this is similar to photographers who focus on shooting graffiti. The architects and graffiti artists may deserve praise, but unless you are really adding something more to it in your photo, it's not your art. In these photos, I don't see the photographer adding enough to call it his own.

Nice work but hardly your bog standard office escalators and stairs, anyone would be inspired by these architectural gems.

This could be called reader's staircase.

ba-dum tsss!

Very nice how you took a subject and turned it into an artistic work. Excellent job on these! True photographic art.

Those are stunning photos.
he really has a talent.

Yes! I really also recommend you all to look at his web site or at 500px. Much larger images. Makes a much better impact.

I have said it before - and I say it again. It is a pity that dpreview always shows portofolios so small. Sometimes it works and sometimes it do not.

Maybe I am just imagining, but I also think the dpreview portofolio cuts away some bright tones. Maybe it is because it is smaller. Or do they do some kind of destructive compression?

Moreover, there is so much more in his own portofolios. And some I think is even better.

I really like his point of view.

Absolutely beautiful photos.

Picture No. 8 was taken at Livraria Lello, a famous bookstore in Porto, Portugal - which happens to be the town where I was born and still live.
I've been a keen enthusiast of this style ever since I became familiar with German photographer Karl-Hugo Schmölz's body of work. (Google it: you won't be wasting your time.) Some of the pictures shown here are simply brilliant. It's all too easy to get everything wrong with these subjects, making them too rigid and downright cold, but these pictures avoid such pitfalls: they're quite dynamic and communicative.
Congrats, Luís! :)

Just stunning. I don't agree with those who say that these images are no artistic work. Sure the architects have done a great job, but its up to the photographer to convey them to the public in an enchanting way. Luis dos Santos did just that in a great way.

Beautiful architectural details!

The processing sounds tough.

They are very nice photographs, executed technically almost to perfection.
BUT.... they represent another artist vision and execution, they are as such not by the pure lack, rather intention and one's creativity. To me, that is always ever-present and somewhat overpowering feeling, the same as photographing nice painting, the sculpture, architectural detail or - God forbid - someone else's photograph.... Therefore, the statement 'Lobbies, office towers and stairwells seem like unlikely places to find artistic inspiration' stands skewed as today they in most cases represent one artist vision (for which they were commissioned in the first place). We (photographers) merely recognise and record it - even artistically, it is still a 'second hand' inspiration.