Radio Architecture With Ilana Razbash - Episode 57 (Veeral Patel)

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This week on "Radio Architecture with Ilana Razbash", Ilana's special guest is Veeral Patel, a Melbourne-based Architectural Photographer and Filmmaker hailing from New Zealand. His roots can be traced back further across the Pacific Ocean to Fiji. With a background in wireless communications engineering, he moved to Melbourne after the dot com burst. The transition to photography came through a mid-life career crisis that saw him longing to do more than just software development. Through chance encounters with other entrepreneurs, he had his own Walter Mitty moment, photographing several editions of the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in Europe. Surrounded by the architecture of new and old through his travels in Europe, he was given opportunities in Melbourne to photograph niche development projects. This opened his eyes to a new avenue of technical and creative imagination, and thus, photographing architecture became his forte. More recently, he has become a custodian of Robin Boyd’s Noble House.