In today’s episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Ashok Sinha, a New York–based photographer and filmmaker, who approaches architecture, interiors, and creative culture with a contemporary architectural eye, making images that are clean, spacious, and deeply attuned to a sense of place.
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Ashok Sinha is a New York City–based photographer and filmmaker whose work moves fluidly across architecture, interiors, lifestyle, and creative culture. His images are shaped by what he describes as a contemporary architectural lens, giving even human-centered or editorial assignments a strong sense of structure, atmosphere, and place.
Alongside commissioned work, Sinha has developed a personal practice centered on large-scale photographs of both natural and built environments, often emphasizing unusual perspectives and spatial tension. His work has been published in outlets including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper, and Interior Design, and it has been exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of the City of New York, the International Center of Photography, and the Royal Photographic Society.
He is also the author of Gas and Glamour, a book exploring mid-century Los Angeles car culture and architectural advertising, and he has expanded his visual storytelling into film, with documentary work including Forgotten Artisans of New York, Sticker City, and Pigeon Kings of Brooklyn. Across all of this, what stands out is his ability to bring clarity, curiosity, and formal elegance to subjects rooted in design, culture, and the lived character of a place.
This peaceful townhouse pool in a Central Park West cellar is one level below the basement. The house and the pool are thoroughly renovated and updated by William Leeds, a residential architect. Energy-efficient new lighting gives a spa feeling. For ceiling coves, LED strips that shift through a range of moods. Steady warm-white light is possible, or a computer control produces any of 16 million distinct colors.
Architect: Oscar Niemeyer
Architect: Frank Gehry
ASHOK SHINHA
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