Adventures & Blog

Photography, Travel, Architecture Neil Long Photography, Travel, Architecture Neil Long

Lisbon, Two Buildings, and a Conversation in Ceramic Tiles

Have you ever travelled specifically for a building? Not for a city, not for a culture, not for the food or the wine or the warm Atlantic evenings — but because a particular piece of architecture demanded your full professional attention? That's precisely what brought me to Lisbon in early 2026, MAAT and CAM Gulbenkian.

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Photographing The Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies Van Der Rohe

To steal a phrase, ‘If the German Pavilion in Barcelona is the shrine to Van Der Rohe that all disciples of mid-century modern should visit, the Neue Nationalgalerie must surely be the temple at which to lay your offerings of thanks’. There's something almost spiritual about standing before this masterpiece of modernist architecture

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Photography, Travel, Blogging Neil Long Photography, Travel, Blogging Neil Long

Inspiration - Where Do You Get Yours?

Where do you find real inspiration when social media feeds you nothing but impossible perfection?

I fuel my inspiration with stories of derring do, factual and fictional. I may not physically be able to hike the Himalayas or row the Atlantic, but I can digest the way those stories made me feel. I can analyse what ingredients from these tales kept me engaged and incorporate those methods into my own architectural photography career and storytelling.

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