Early this year, I had the pleasure of photographing the interiors of
@mischarichter ’s beautiful home for the spring issue of Beach House, the annual magazine published by
@provincetownindependent . Misha is an inspiring photographer and filmmaker based in Provincetown. “We all decorate our places with art and memorabilia, but Mischa’s house transcends the decorative aspect. Although it serves as a space to live, work, and entertain in, it is itself, in every detail, a work of art. Wherever your glance falls, there is intentional beauty, something built there or placed there for the eye to see and for the viewer to ponder and appreciate.
Every piece “means something to me,” he says. The materials come from not only his own past but the town’s: reclaimed artifacts from the old Flagship Restaurant, Phyllis and Izzy Sklar’s jewelry shop, Joe Notaro’s house on Bradford Street, the Provincetown Inn’s bowling alleys. His grandparents’ old house on the water is well represented with old doors and cupboards, and Mischa Senior’s paint-splattered studio floor has become a wall in his bedroom. He uses his grandfather’s old light table for his own photographic work. Of course John Eder’s house, lost to a fire in 2019, supplies an abundance of materials- posts and signs and shingles almost bring the recluse back to life.
In the glorious light-filled sunroom, there is stained glass and old wood, shells and ancient bottles, bones and antlers, dried flowers, and a slightly charred Buddha. The central fireplace, composed of weathered brick and stone and ship’s ribs, seems to almost swirl and sway in its space.
It is a happy place to be.”
@dennisminsky #interiorphotography #artobjects
