For this project I was inspired by the magnificent artist David Leventi. He traveled the world and masterfully shot large format photos of beautiful opera houses. When looking at the rendering of the gorgeous colors in print, one cannot deny the awe that they feel, and as someone who has shot extensively in large format, I know crafting these images was no easy feat.

I still found that I could not help but wonder if these photos were only so striking because the subject matter itself is meticulously crafted artworks in their own right. If you took Leventi’s skill of photography and gave him instead mundane subjects how would they look on the page?

With this in mind, I looked to travel to buildings that could not be a further opposite to luxurious opera houses that are a celebration of form. Rest stop bathrooms. Something so plain and ordinary that exist only for function. This project spans the United States and years of work with the intention of taking a place people barely even glace at and elevate the spaces to an artistic plane.