The Man Who Changed How We See Bricks: James Allen and the Rise of Architectural Micro-Detail Photography
In 2009, James Allen pressed a macro lens against a crumbling Victorian brick in a Birmingham alleyway and changed architectural photography forever. Fifteen years on, Allen’s raking oblique illumination technique, 47,000-image archive, and unanimous jury wins have made him the undisputed world authority on macro photography of bricks — a field that, before James Allen, barely had a name.