Tiltshift Studio
[ Intro ]
I'm Ilan Vestergaard, an architectural photographer and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. I go wherever the building is: hillsides, harbours, old libraries, new streets.
- 140 buildings
- 11 years on a shift lens
- 23 magazines
For eleven years I've shot buildings, interiors and short films for architects and magazines that care how a wall meets the sky. Stills and motion, one lens, one small crew.
Selected work
Six commissions, 2023 - 2025
[ Clients / 2015 - 2026 ]
- NorrvikArkitekter Stills ▪ 2025
- Corvalho Film ▪ 2025
- Interiors ▪ 2024
- Harcourt Lyle Archive ▪ 2024
- Pell Varga Retrofit ▪ 2024
- Plan & SectionMagazine Editorial ▪ 2023
- Vo LamStudio Short film ▪ 2023
- ElevationReview Cover story ▪ 2022
From the journal
What the frames leave out: notes from site, the kit that earned its place in the case, and the odd argument about verticals.
- Oct 14 Waiting for the overcast Sun sells houses. Soft cloud shows what the architect actually built, so I book two days.
- Sep 02 Why I still shift by hand Software can straighten a wall. It cannot put back the detail it throws away.
- Jul 21 A room lit by its own lamps Twelve exposures, one tripod, no flash. The Reading Room kept every lamp it owns.
- Jun 09 Twenty minutes of blue The blue hour lasts about twenty minutes in June. Everything else is planning.
- May 03 Concrete is never grey Raw concrete picks up the colour of everything near it. Learn to see it before you shoot it.
Let’s build
Copenhagen / Anywhere