John Hejduk,
photographs from 1986 – 1990

John Hejduk, the first architect whose work I photographed, greatly influenced my way of looking at architecture.

‘Architecture can be viewed both from a distance and internally (close-up); we can become internally inspired by it, become part of its interior. Instead of just being an outside observer or an outside spectator, we can become part of its very interior organism. We become physical-organic participators; we become enclosed. Architecture is the only art form that affords us the opportunity of being voyeurs who watch the outside from the outside and also of being interior watchers. We can also observe the inside from the outside, the outside from the inside. It is all made up of a series of outside fragments and inside fragments.’

John Hejduk, 1980