Church/old building locations?

tinite · 10 Aug 2011

A makeup artist/hairdresser approached me, having seen my work online, wanting to do a vintage-style shoot in a church/old building. I was just wondering if anyone new any interesting locations that I could try out, before I plunge head-first, blind into the world of the million Google hits...

Thanks.

(By the way, I'm based in London and do not want to have to travel out of the city, if avoidable)

tinite · 16 Aug 2011

Anybody got anything on this?

AllFallD0wn · 16 Aug 2011

Find a local nice church and get in touch with them? If it's weekday they'll probably allow you to have a shoot as long as it's nothing too out of the way

onona · 16 Aug 2011

Are you wanting to do something indoors or outdoors with the church in the background?

tinite · 16 Aug 2011

onona said:
Are you wanting to do something indoors or outdoors with the church in the background?

Sorry indoors.

And Nick, do you think a church would be happy to let me shoot inside? The only problem is I want a old stone building/gothic architecture feel, not a church feel. I don't want it to be obvious that I'm shooting in a church, really.

AllFallD0wn · 16 Aug 2011

tinite said:
Sorry indoors.

And Nick, do you think a church would be happy to let me shoot inside? The only problem is I want a old stone building/gothic architecture feel, not a church feel. I don't want it to be obvious that I'm shooting in a church, really.

I'm sure there's a chance they'll allow you. There's no shame in asking. The worst they can do is say "no". Like I've said in the other thread, if you see an old building on urbex sites, go and have a recce around and see how easy access is. A lot of the time it's as easy as walking through a door

tinite · 16 Aug 2011

AllFallD0wn said:
I'm sure there's a chance they'll allow you. There's no shame in asking. The worst they can do is say "no". Like I've said in the other thread, if you see an old building on urbex sites, go and have a recce around and see how easy access is. A lot of the time it's as easy as walking through a door

Okay thanks

viewfromthenorth · 17 Aug 2011

It's good form to make a donation to the church if you get permission to do a shoot in one.

tinite · 17 Aug 2011

viewfromthenorth said:
It's good form to make a donation to the church if you get permission to do a shoot in one.

Thanks, good point. I will make a small donation if they give me permission.