Venue guides
We are writing a photographer’s field guide to every wedding venue we would happily work in, city by city. Each guide covers the light, the timing and the frames that work – and says plainly where we are drawing on craft rather than on having shot there.
A 1915 schoolhouse in Northeast Portland turned hotel, bar and event space. Enormous character, tungsten light everywhere, and painted walls that will colour-cast your skin tones.
Read the guideCompleted 1799 on Jackson Square, the Spanish colonial seat of government where the Louisiana Purchase transfer was signed, now a Louisiana State Museum.
Read the guideA museum of college athletics in White River State Park, Indianapolis, with interactive displays, open interiors and skyline views.
Read the guideA paddlewheel riverboat operating on the Savannah River past River Street, the historic waterfront and the port. A venue that moves, which changes everything.
Read the guideThe former Portland Press Herald headquarters in downtown Portland, Maine, converted into a design hotel with newspaper-themed interiors and period detailing.
Read the guideA nineteenth-century house remodelled into a white-columned Classical Revival mansion, with formal gardens and mature trees in Louisville's Highlands.
Read the guideThomas Gilcrease's museum of American West art on around 460 acres of Osage foothills in Tulsa, with themed historic gardens on the grounds.
Read the guideA hotel occupying a restored Art Deco tower in downtown Minneapolis, with a period lobby and function spaces.
Read the guideOpened 1903 in Mount Vernon, a Beaux-Arts grand hotel with ornate ballrooms, a famous mirrored room and a thirteenth-floor rooftop over Baltimore.
Read the guideA converted early twentieth-century industrial building in north downtown Omaha, with exposed brick, heavy timber, large windows and open floor plates.
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