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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

Styling a hotel bed

Styling a hotel bed

How to style a hotel bed - Hotel Photogrqaphy Tips & tricks. by Hospitality photographer Michelle Chaplow & room stylist Sonja Haberstroh Beds are indeed very complicated to photograph. So how do we overcome this problem, especially as the camera is...

Happy New Year 2022

Happy New Year 2022

Hotel photography and the new post-pandemic narrative

Hotel photography and the new post-pandemic narrative

New post-pandemic trends and tendencies in the photography sector. GUEST SPEAKER - Michelle Chaplow, Luxury and Historic hotel photographer. Continuing with the autumn theme of ‘adapting’, Costa Press Club-member, Michelle Chaplow will be sharing her experiences of...

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.

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