Hotel Shoots

The Hotel Shoots series is a curated collection of moments captured during my creative travels—intimate, spontaneous, and beautifully transient. These images and galleries document photo sessions with incredible models in the unique, often atmospheric spaces of hotels I’ve stayed at across the country. Each location brings its own personality, textures, and stories, becoming an essential part of the photographic experience.

Hotels offer a compelling paradox: they are both personal and impersonal, familiar and foreign. They are places of pause between destinations, yet filled with subtle drama—echoes of hundreds of untold stories that have unfolded behind closed doors. For me, these temporary spaces became creative playgrounds, offering a constantly shifting canvas to explore new ideas, styles, and visual tones.

From sleek modern suites with mirrored walls and moody lighting to vintage motels with aged wood and patterned wallpaper, every location contributes to the mood of each shoot. I never arrive at a hotel with a strict plan. Instead, I let the space speak. How does the light filter through the blinds at 10 a.m.? What does the fabric of the headboard suggest? How does the bathtub feel under red gel lighting? The hotel room becomes more than just a backdrop—it becomes a collaborator.

The models featured in this series are often as adaptable and spontaneous as the environments themselves. Together, we explore these spaces intuitively—sometimes leaning into the luxury of the surroundings, other times using their limitations to spark unexpected creativity. A standard lamp becomes dramatic lighting. A bedsheet transforms into couture. A corner chair becomes a stage. It’s this alchemy of space, model, and moment that gives the Hotel Shoots their distinctive energy.

While many of these images possess a boudoir or lifestyle edge, the overarching mood shifts from shoot to shoot—sensual, mysterious, playful, cinematic. The atmosphere is always shaped by the combination of the model’s energy and the character of the room. There’s a quiet magic in these shoots. They’re raw and unrehearsed. You can feel the presence of travel, the sense of “just passing through,” the fleeting beauty of a moment captured before the suitcase is zipped up again.

This collection is ongoing, a living archive of hotel rooms transformed into art studios, one night at a time. It celebrates impermanence and improvisation, making beauty from the in-between. It also serves as a visual travelogue—a record of not just where I’ve been, but how each stop along the way sparked something new in the creative process.

Whether it’s a luxury suite in a downtown high-rise, a roadside inn in the desert, or a boutique hideaway nestled in the hills, each shoot adds a new layer to this ongoing journey. These aren’t just hotel rooms. They’re chapters in an evolving story of discovery, intimacy, and the quiet rebellion of making art anywhere, everywhere.