About the Artist:     Willard Traub left the teaching of English and social studies to become a full-time photographer in 1979. He has had his studio in the Saxonville Studios since 1993. Traub's photographs have been widely published in architectural and shelter journals and books including Architecture, Building Design & Construction, Contract Design, Home Magazine, Remodeling magazine and publications of the Boston Society of Architects.

Scripting the Shoot:    Walking around a building and its site prior to photography is a first meeting with a new acquaintance. Establishing a dialogue with the building and its users, looking at it and walking around it to see the light within the space and the light falling on it are time well spent. In this way, aspects of the volume, materials, colors, textures are revealed. The 'fun' of it all is then placing that three-dimensional world in the two-dimensional world of the photograph. The following three photographs are recent examples of that process.

The Final Product:     His photographs of exteriors and interiors of the built environment are characterized by his perspective as an artist as well as an architectural documentarian. Characteristics of his commercial work are his respect for the client's design and commercial requirements as well as the vitality brought to the photographs through the creative use of people and props in the composition.

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