Film Set Photography

Film set photography captured on the backlot of Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. These images document constructed environments designed for film and television production, including suburban streets, interior spaces, and architectural façades built to resemble everyday life.

These photographs explore the visual language of film sets, where environments are carefully designed to appear lived in, yet remain untouched by real life. Streets repeat, interiors are arranged but unused, and details are constructed to support the illusion of everyday living.

Photographed without actors or production activity, the images focus on the spaces themselves, revealing a quiet tension between familiarity and artificiality. What appears ordinary at first begins to feel uncertain.

The work moves through exterior streets and interior rooms, observing how light, structure, and repetition shape environments that exist only to be seen on screen.

A residential street with white multi-story houses, some with black shutters, and trees with green foliage. A street lamp is visible in the foreground, along with well-maintained grass and shrubs.
View inside an unfinished garage with wooden framing, exposed roof trusses, and an open entrance leading to the street outside.
Interior view of an empty room with four folding chairs along the left wall, an IV drip stand in the center, and a white folding chair against the back wall. The room has wooden floors and dark painted walls, visible through an open doorway.
An empty kitchen with wooden flooring, light-colored cabinets, a window, and a doorway leading to another room.
Colorful old-fashioned townhouses on a quiet street with a curved driveway.
Empty city street with beige and brown buildings, a green railing covering an underground entrance, and orange traffic cones, with a hillside in the background.
Historic building with columns and stairs on a city street.
Red leather tufted sofa with a wooden coffee table in front, next to a decorative standing lamp, positioned on a brick-paved area beside a fountain in an outdoor plaza with historic buildings and greenery in the background.
A residential street with a large, multi-story house in the background, surrounded by trees and greenery, with a sidewalk and curb in the foreground.

Related projects:

Constructed Life

Roadside Reveries

The Silence Between