Residential architecture lives or dies in the details. We photograph custom homes, kitchens and baths, multi-family housing, and historic renovations with the precision those details demand — capturing how light moves through a room at a specific hour, how materials read at close range, and how a home connects to its landscape and site.
Documodern works with residential architects and design firms throughout St. Louis and the Midwest on projects ranging from single-family custom residences and gut-renovation townhomes to multi-family housing, mixed-income developments, and historically sensitive adaptive reuse. We also photograph interior details — millwork, tile, lighting, landscape integration — for kitchen and bath designers, interior designers, and firms whose residential work spans multiple scales.
Residential photography requires a different pace than commercial work. Spaces are smaller, light is less controllable, and the narrative of a successful home depends on capturing atmosphere as much as architecture. We schedule residential shoots carefully, around the light conditions specific to each project, and we work with staging and styling when needed to ensure every image reflects the design at its best.
The result is photography that performs for award submissions, editorial placements, firm portfolio pages, and the clients who commission the next project.