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HOWTOBUILDASTUDIO...
Costner playing Iowa
fromacowshed
farmer Ray Kinsella? Ray hears a
voiceinacornfieldtellinghimto
construct a baseball pitch. The
voiceadds;‘Ifyoubuildittheywill
come’. Photographer Ian Shipley
isn’tsohotwithabaseballbatbut
he grabbed that filmic mantra by
the throat and turned it into a
personalmissionstatement.
Last year he was wandering around
the Midlands looking for a suitable
spot to build a new photographic
studio.
Andwhenhestumbledona3,200sq
ft former cowshed on a Burton on
Trentfarmbusinessparkheknewhe
hadfoundtheperfectplace.
NowheHASbuiltit–andtheyARE
coming.
Commercialclients,(includingoneof
Europe’s largest construction
companies, E.ON and Dairy Crest)
magazine editors, art directors and
otherphotographerslookingtohirea
new studio venue are all making a
beeline to IS Photographic, just
outside the village of Drakelow,
BurtononTrent,Staffordshire.
So how do you go about building
a studio from scratch?
Thefirst thing Ihadsetmymind on
wasthesizeitneededtobe”explains
Ian.“It would have been all too easy
tobuilditinashedatthebottomof
my garden – and that would have
been fine if all I wanted to do was
headshotportraits.”
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