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
Celebrating 15 Years of Hotel Essence Photography: A Heartfelt Thank You
Fifteen years ago, Hotel Essence Photography was born from a passion for capturing the essence of the world’s finest hotels. Today, we celebrate this incredible milestone with immense gratitude to every hotel that has welcomed us, inspired us, and allowed us to tell...
2025: Fifteen Years of Capturing Luxury and Historic Hotels Worldwide
🌟 Cheers to 2025 – Celebrating 15 Years of Hotel Photography! 🌟 As we step into 2025, Hotel Essence Photography is honoured to celebrate 15 years of capturing the essence of luxury and historic hotels worldwide. We extend our heartfelt thanks to all the...
Historic Hotels Annual Conference: Mastering Historic Hotel Photography
Michelle Chaplow participated in the 2024 Historic Hotels Annual Conference, where she shared her expertise in mastering historic hotel photography. Historic hotel photographer Michelle Chaplow led an academy session at the 2024 Historic Hotels and Historic Hotels...
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.