history

ray main

Trained as an Architectural Photographer but slowly his focus changed to accommodate his other great passions of interiors, gardens food, travel and reportage photography. He appears regularly in magazines worldwide. "My work is different in subject and location every day, from the Guggenheim in Bilbao to a small garden in Shropshire, to an apartment in Bombay and the is just the way I like it."

 

Commissioned books to date

 

The Lighting Book Rayland's, Peters and Small
Perfect Order Kyle Cathie
Brilliant Colour KC
Get the Look KC
Recycled Spaces RPS
Buying the best KC
Styling Your Home KC
Essential Decorator Murdoch Books
Complete Cookery KC
Oracle Diet KC
Spiritual Home Pavilion
High Rise Living USA
101 Living Rooms Quadrille Books
101 Kitchens QB
101 Bathrooms QB
101 Bedrooms QB

101 Colour QB

Cool Pools Jacqui Small

Building with Cob Green Books

Perfect Tables Cico Books

Rays images have also been used in books on architecture, interiors, gardens and food books, his images from our library have appeared in over 160 books worldwide.

 Magazines

Saturday Times Magazine, Sunday Times Style,  Saturday & Sunday Telegraph Magazine, French and German Elite, House & Garden, Homes & Gardens UK/South Africa, New Zealand,  Fabric Magazine, Vogue Living and Mode Australia, Arquitectura y Diseno Spain, Living Etc, Grand Designs, 4Homes, insideout, Coast, Feeling Wonen Germany and many more.

Commercial Work Clients

Retail Companies in interiors, gardens and food market, Worldwide Hotel and travel Companies.

Gosling Interiors, Jimmy Choo, The Ritz Hotel, Taj Hotels, Dorchester Hotel, William Yeoward Furniture and Crystal, Metropolitan Hotel, Coran Restaurants, The Ritz Hotel, Milliken, ICI, BBC, Designers Guild, David Linley, RE, Louise Bradley hopefully these few names give you a sense of the cross-section of companies that Ray works for.

Ray Main is available for commission, please contact by phone/fax or email.