Inked Mag Staff

July 25th, 2018

One Photographer: 400 Car Interiors

With Ervin Boer photos by Ervin Boer text by paul Gambino “I want to create the biggest car interior collection in the world.” — Ervin Boer Ervin Boer is a…

With Ervin Boer

photos by Ervin Boer text by paul Gambino

“I want to create the biggest car interior collection in the world.” — Ervin Boer

Ervin Boer is a 28-year-old automotive photographer from Romania who has spent the last year shooting the interiors of 400 automobiles—everything from Lamborghinis to rust buckets. He is armed with a Canon EOS 50 Mark III mounted with a 12mm wide-angle lens when shooting from the safety of car show floors, celebrity driveways and construction sites, and a GoPro when he hits the hot asphalt of Romania’s picturesque city of Timisoara.

I started shooting as a hobbyist back in 2009.

When I was 17 my parents bought me a Sony Ericsson K810i phone that had a 3.2MP camera with image stabilization. It was top-of-the-line for that time period. I didn’t realize I would be using the phone as my camera, but the quality was so impressive that I started enjoying taking photos.

Well, both my parents are engineers, but my dad has quite a good talent for drawing. He told me he used to draw cars when he was in college.

The project began in May 2016 while I was driving on the motorway with a BMW 420 X Drive from the local dealership. I was testing my new 12mm fisheye lens by trying some POV shots and I kind of liked the results. So I thought I should try to do some more.

Well, I can’t really say I had any difficulties, yet. People are usually very friendly and most of them accepted my request to photograph the interiors. But to answer the question, in 2017 at the AMTS Auto Show in Budapest I had to search for over six hours to find the owner of a Ferrari 488 and I had to show him my portfolio to convince him to unlock the car.

I think the most fun was when I photographed the interiors of bulldozers and excavators on the construction site where my dad works. Those heavy machines are cool and the POV is very interesting.

If you are asking about top 3 favorites, I would say the Pontiac Firebird (KITT from the movie Knight Rider), the Coca-Cola truck ( Kenworth W900B ) and the Ferrari 488. If you are asking about the most expensive cars? It would be the Lamborghini Aventador S, Ferrari 488 and McLaren 650S.

One of the favorite cars I have driven is the BMW i8. I even had the chance to do two laps on a racetrack. Even though I have driven more powerful cars, this is the one I enjoyed the most.

I’m not really a big fan of speed, I did around 230km/142mph with the BMW i8. As a passenger, I did 260km/161mph with a BMW M3 on an airstrip. I would be curious one day to go 300km/187mph or more, of course on a racetrack or airstrip.

Of course, I am dreaming to add very rare, unique and extremely expensive car interiors to my collection, but two of my all-time favorite cars are the Ferrari Testarossa and the Lamborghini Countach. They are missing at the moment from my collection, I can’t wait to find them and maybe if I’m lucky even drive them.

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