The Hotel Essence Photography Blog
Welcome to our Hotel Essence blog, founded by award-winning hotel photographer Michelle Chaplow, specialist in luxury and historic hotels. Michelle shares her world of luxury hotel photography, and we also highlight individual Hotels from the cutting-edge contemporary to world-renowned heritage hotels.
To find out more about Michelle’s career trajectory, and the prestigious publications where her work has appeared, read her Bio. We have sections on keynote speeches, hotel photography tips for hoteliers, and we share news on conferences, awards, interviews with hotel experts, exhibitions trends and travel.
Michelle also manages to find time for a number of ongoing Personal Projects, including the award-winning The Pool of Life, and you can read her individual take on various photographers, themes and topics in Contemporary Art Photography. For friends who prefer to read in Spanish, a selection blog posts are also available in Entradas en español.
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Recent blog posts
Tips for Hotels on Social Media Photography
Social media photography is a very valuable element of hotel marketing. The engagement it produces between hotels and prospective guests can increase bookings and hence generate revenue. Images are processed by the brain so much faster than text, so it goes without...
Hotel Bathroom Photography
Hotel bathroom photography by Michelle Chaplow Many people ask us, what´s the most challenging room in a hotel to photograph? Without a doubt it is the bathrooms and yes, we love a challenge. Hotel bathrooms are one of the most complicated areas of a hotel to...
Interview with Julia Hands Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Hand Picked Hotels
Interview by Michelle Chaplow It comes as no surprise that in 2007 Julia Hands was awarded an MBE for her services to hospitality. Julia is the founder of Hand Picked Hotels, a collection of former British stately homes and manor houses that has been transformed into...
This blog has been created to blog about travel, photography and hotels. Three great subjects that so many love, the world of travel, photography and hotel life. Tales of world travel from a Michelle Chaplow, founder of Hotel Essence Photography a professional travel photographer with 20 years experience in the field. A blog with a passion for travel, photography and hotels of both the luxurious an quirky kind. Michelle participated in a course on International Contemporary Photography. The course was organised by the Contemporary art Museum in Malaga (CAC) and the Valentín de Madariaga foundation in Seville, Spain. This blog will also serve as a showcase to highlight Michelle’s images with a contemporary angle.