I’M LOUIS LIM.

On the surface I’m a director of photography and filmmaker, but at heart I’m simply a storyteller. My work sits where architecture, light and everyday human moments overlap — interiors, interviews, portraits and quiet scenes from the street.

Over the past five years I’ve been collaborating with interior designers, architects, studios and brands to tell visual stories most visibly through Ruang by Atap, Atap.co’s ongoing series exploring Malaysian homes, hotels and design studios. Episodes have taken me from industrial-heritage concrete and steel at Hotel Mokozoyo in Penang to enigmatic, high-contrast homes and offices crafted with firms like Stoke Associates, Dare Solution and Team 17.

I treat each space like a character: what kind of mood it has, how it breathes, and how people really move through it when no one is performing for the camera. I like how materials talk to each other, how soft fabric answers cold concrete and timber warms a steel frame. My edits move at walking pace so viewers can feel the room, not just scroll past another tour.