The Journal
Essays, image diaries and quiet observations on the craft of hospitality photography — written between commissions, along the coast.
Featured Essay
The first exposure I ever loved was of an empty suite at six in the morning — the linen still cold, the light hesitant. Fifteen years later I am still trying to make that photograph. This is why.
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Image DiaryA single morning at the Kaleiçi harbour — twenty frames and one that survived.
Read →Craft NotesWhy we stopped photographing rooms with 16mm — and what we do instead.
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EssayEvery hotel wants to be photographed at 17:52. This is a small argument for 06:14.
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TravelThree properties, one boat, the wrong lens. Notes from a scouting trip along the Albanian coast.
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Image DiaryPhotographing a hammam is photographing what is disappearing. Eight frames from a very quiet morning.
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Craft NotesHow we storyboard a hotel film before the drapes are hung — and what changes when the guests arrive.
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EssayWhy the empty, symmetrical, over-lit hotel lobby image no longer sells rooms — and what does.
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TravelA boutique property, a Levantine kitchen, and a client who wanted "something without any yellow."
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