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
The rising role of photography in a COVID world and how this can instil confidence in a hotel brand
Boutique Hotel News publishes Michelle Chaplow´s, five top tips for instilling guest confidence in a hotel brand. 2020 is like no other year: the current global pandemic is one of the greatest challenges that the hospitality industry has ever faced. In terms of hotel...
Building Hotel Brand Reputation: Words
Rosemary Trigg, an experienced communication professional and marketer, with a wealth of experience in hospitality, explains exactly why the words on a hotel website, are just so important. An authority in the luxury hotel sector, we are delighted to share Rosemary´s...
Hotel photography must adopt a ‘new normal’
Hotel photography in a COVID-conscious world by Michelle Chaplow Hotel photography must adopt a ‘new normal’ as the hospitality and tourism industries recover from the effects of COVID-19. As people begin to travel more, hotels need to demonstrate that they understand...
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.