Architectural, Interior & Real Estate Photography
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My name’s Peter Berzanskis, an architecture, interiors and real estate photographer based in Melbourne.
I love the spaces and places we inhabit and thoroughly enjoy capturing these for home owners, builders, architects, interior stylists and real estate agents.
My clients trust me and allow me to do my best work and I give them my all. If you've got a space or place that you want photographed then give me a shout out and let's see how I can help you.
I’m based in St Kilda and cover the Melbourne metro area and I’ll also be happy to travel further afield.
Fill out the enquiry form with some information about your project and I'll get back to you asap. Or you can email me direct at:
Peter Berzanskis
The Space Cowboy Photography
peter@thespacecowboyphotography.com.au
0434 289 221
Melbourne | Australia
Biography
Way Back When
As a young boy I spent hours looking through shoe boxes filled with hundreds of black and white images taken by my father. Taken in the decades before I was born, they were of mysterious people and places far away, and showed me a world far outside what I’d known.
I had analogue cameras when I was younger up but apart from taking photos of friends I didn’t see much use for it.
During my school years I probably spent more time looking out the window than concentrating on class. School and I didn’t get along and I’d barely turned 16 when I left. During my teens and early twenties I became a boilermaker, did some demolition work, picked fruit, restored and sold antique colonial furniture, drove cabs.
Community Radio
In my late 20’s I became involved in community radio presenting music programs and helping out in other ways. I then became involved in starting a station in Geelong and was the first manager of an ethnic broadcaster in Melbourne with over 200 volunteers.
During my 40’s I owned a bike shop, and organised and led bicycle tours around Bali and on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. Later I became serious about having a real job and worked for small businesses in management and sales. I sold new homes, phone systems, management training courses, I worked for a mail house, I sold pallet racking, window tinting and signage. I was pretty good at this and won a few awards along the way.
Film and TV
By my mid 50’s I was working as crew and as an actor and extra in film and TV and on TV commercials and to supplement my income I worked in a market research company on the phones and as a supervisor and trainer.
In 2010 I’d earned enough from my role in a telemovie to go backpacking through East Timor and Indonesia for a couple of months. I had with me a tired old iPhone 3 I’d bought second hand and I really enjoyed taking photos with it. I’d always been taking or imagining photos with my eyes, and I enjoyed what I could do with my iPhone as limited as it was. I discovered street photography and loved the stories images could tell.
Formal Education
I graduated from a Master of Arts, Photography in 2022 and received the MGA (Monash Gallery of Art) award for excellence in the MA. In 2016 I completed a Diploma in Photo Imaging, my first formal qualification at the age of 60. I began to understand what I could achieve with a camera. I started to get paid work as a photographer and did whatever I felt capable of. Not long after I completed the first Diploma I enrolled in and finished a second Diploma in Photography. I loved the face-to-face learning and discovered the breadth and depth of what photography could achieve. I learnt so much about the work of others and it opened my eyes to what could be achieved.
During the past few years I’ve shot weddings, portraits, fashion, products, events and real estate however the aim was to specialise in architecture and real estate photography. I’ve pushed myself to be technically good, to produce quality work, and I’ve continued to learn using online tutorials and attending workshops.
Architecture Photography
Doing architecture photography has piqued my interest in architecture, to capture buildings or parts of buildings as I see. Spending time with my father during school holidays in the 1960s I spent time at oil refineries, in factories and office buildings that he helped to build. I love the magnificence and the banality, the details and the entirety of our built environment.
Pushing myself to learn and understand post processing has opened up so much more to me creatively. It’s allowed to me to play with and exercise my creativity, to blend and mould an image into something that might tell a story, or to show it in a way we hadn’t imagined it.
Travel and Personal Projects
For four months in 2018 I travelled through North America, Europe and Japan. I was in London during Open House and an image I took at Swiss Cottage Library Camden won the category and overall prize in the photo competition.
Having time away from work gave me a great opportunity to indulge my interest in capturing architecture, to continue to build my body of personal work.
Way Back When
As a young boy I spent hours looking through shoe boxes filled with hundreds of black and white images taken by my father. Taken in the decades before I was born, they were of mysterious people and places far away, and showed me a world far outside what I’d known.
I had analogue cameras when I was younger up but apart from taking photos of friends I didn’t see much use for it.
During my school years I probably spent more time looking out the window than concentrating on class. School and I didn’t get along and I’d barely turned 16 when I left. During my teens and early twenties I became a boilermaker, did some demolition work, picked fruit, restored and sold antique colonial furniture, drove cabs.
Community Radio
In my late 20’s I became involved in community radio presenting music programs and helping out in other ways. I then became involved in starting a station in Geelong and was the first manager of an ethnic broadcaster in Melbourne with over 200 volunteers.
During my 40’s I owned a bike shop, and organised and led bicycle tours around Bali and on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. Later I became serious about having a real job and worked for small businesses in management and sales. I sold new homes, phone systems, management training courses, I worked for a mail house, I sold pallet racking, window tinting and signage. I was pretty good at this and won a few awards along the way.
Film and TV
By my mid 50’s I was working as crew and as an actor and extra in film and TV and on TV commercials and to supplement my income I worked in a market research company on the phones and as a supervisor and trainer.
In 2010 I’d earned enough from my role in a telemovie to go backpacking through East Timor and Indonesia for a couple of months. I had with me a tired old iPhone 3 I’d bought second hand and I really enjoyed taking photos with it. I’d always been taking or imagining photos with my eyes, and I enjoyed what I could do with my iPhone as limited as it was. I discovered street photography and loved the stories images could tell.