I have a lot of respect for architectural photographers as can be seen by the work of Don Brice in Adelaide. This work takes a special eye and discipline to create pictures that can make the architecture sing, keep the architect happy, and create pictures that can stand on their own as images. This is especially so when it comes to spiritual spaces such as churches and temples.

In this interview Morlinghaus,a Germanborn, New York based photographer, says that he is a traditional photographer: meaning that he shoots with an 8×10 camera and color negative film, using the light that is already there, works with a 5-20 minute exposure time and prints, or contact, his own negatives without the use of a computer. His work is impeccably crafted, has its roots in Die Neue Sachlinchkeit and Bauhaus formalism, and has an eerie or uncanny feel.

If Morlinghaus finds beauty in Modernism's architectural forms, then the eeriness comes from there being no people in these pictures of the built environment. The churchgoers are conspicuous by their absence and so we can infer that the buildings appear to be abstracted from life.

Its odd--this work explores the use of space as constructed locations, as means of spiritual experience. But the spiritual experience requires people and, as there are no people, so the built form is the spiritual experience--the forms’ graceful interplay of light and concrete effortlessly transposes light into sweeping realms of infinite space.