Caesars Palace, Las Vegas: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A large themed Strip resort where the decoration competes with the couple — and four ways to resolve that.
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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.
The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas: The Light Through a Day
A Strip resort with outdoor terraces and screen-lit interiors, taken hour by hour through a wedding day.
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The Aria, Las Vegas: The Light Through a Day
A modern Strip resort taken hour by hour, from a bright desert morning to the twenty-five minutes after sunset.
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The Wynn Las Vegas: A Resort That Turns Inward
A Las Vegas resort organised around its own enclosed grounds rather than the Strip — and what that gives a photographer.
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The Gwen: How the Carved Relief Frame Is Actually Made
A hotel on North Michigan Avenue in a 1920s building with a sculpted limestone facade and an upper terrace.
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The Venetian, Las Vegas: A Resort Whose Logic Is Painted Sky
A Las Vegas resort built around interior spaces that imitate the outdoors — and what that substitution does to the light.
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The Bellagio, Las Vegas: A Resort Built to Have No Outside
A large Las Vegas Strip resort — and the design logic that determines exactly what its light can and cannot do.
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The Whitby, New York: A Walk Through a Midtown Hotel
A Midtown hotel walked in the order a day uses it: patterned rooms, a screening room, tall windows, and the street.
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The Peninsula Chicago: Photographing Pale, Tonal Luxury
A luxury hotel a block from the Magnificent Mile, with pale tonal interiors, a terrace and high guest floors.
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The Crosby Street Hotel, New York: A Walk Through a SoHo Hotel
A SoHo hotel walked in the order a day uses it: bold interiors, a screening room, a courtyard, cast-iron streets.
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