A four-wall canvas for immersive storytelling, Lightroom fuels the creation of worlds from sound, motion and light.
This project was created by 59, a Journey Studio.
A breathtaking triumph.
Lightroom is an immersive venue with sites in London and South Korea. There are plans for a future global rollout of the venue in coming years.
Our partner in this endeavor was Haworth Tompkins, which helped bring the lauded Bridge Theatre to life in 2017. Together we designed Lightroom as a space in which we, in collaboration with some of the world’s greatest artists, thinkers, creatives and innovators, develop work that combines the scale and spectacle of immersive experiences with a focus on new forms of storytelling. Lightroom presents pioneering work that brings together a diverse range of design and narrative disciplines.
Falling outside of the proscenium-based venues of the world, Lightroom opens the aperture of story-driven design, offering theater producers and exhibition designers alike an endlessly adaptable space in which to realize their vision.
Early successes include Lightroom’s inaugural show, “David Hockney: Bigger and Closer (not smaller and further away),” which we developed over three years. Narrated by the artist himself, the show plays with scale, spectacle and intimacy to give audiences fresh perspectives into this iconoclast’s work.
Together with Tom Hanks we also co-produced “The Moonwalkers,” which relays the stories of the Apollo lunar missions. Through immersive video and audio design, “The Moonwalkers” dimensionalizes these gripping journeys at spectacular scale.
There are times when I have seen it and I’m thinking, why are the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now? You can’t just say it’s because of the words that you’re hearing, you can’t just say it’s only the image, you can’t just say it’s this phenomenal score. It’s that playing of it all together and when that happens, I think you’re in the hands of damn good storytellers.