Our Path Forward

On assignment for Pence/Kelly Concrete at the new Bend High School, with clear light and a full campus to cover. Courtyards, outdoor gathering spaces, sidewalks, and the parking lot all needed to read as one connected site rather than a list of separate pours.

Concrete rarely gets top billing on a project like this, but it shapes how students move through campus and where they choose to stop and sit. Good flatwork and careful detailing turn circulation into community space. A community that invests in its schools is investing in our path forward, and in this case Pence/Kelly poured that path in the most literal sense. Students will be walking it for decades. That was the story to photograph, and it gives Pence/Kelly a set of images they can use well past this project.

Matt Swain Photography is based out of the Pacific North West and serves Bend, OR and the West Coast with quality architectural and drone photography.