The Mark, New York: A Walk Through an Upper East Side Hotel
An Upper East Side hotel walked in the order a wedding day uses it — arrival, rooms, reception, and out.
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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 Ritz-Carlton Chicago: Field Notes on a Sealed Ballroom
A hotel occupying upper floors above Michigan Avenue, with interior ballrooms and high-level guest rooms.
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The Ritz-Carlton Central Park, New York: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A hotel facing Central Park, where one scheduling decision — when to go into the park — governs the whole gallery.
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The Blackstone: Working a Building With Two Vocabularies
A 1910 Beaux-Arts hotel on South Michigan Avenue, with period public rooms and contemporary renovated interiors.
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The Baccarat Hotel, New York: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A Midtown hotel of crystal, mirror and polished surface — where one decision about the light governs every frame.
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The Peninsula New York: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A Fifth Avenue hotel in an early-twentieth-century building — its photographic strengths, and its real limits.
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Virgin Hotels Chicago: A Venue of Small Rooms Rather Than Large Ones
A hotel in a 1928 Loop office building, with a series of smaller event spaces and a rooftop bar.
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The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum: Glass, Butterflies and Prairie
A contemporary nature museum in Lincoln Park, with a glass-roofed butterfly haven and restored prairie planting outside.
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The Four Seasons New York: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A large modern hotel in Midtown Manhattan — what it does well photographically, and where it asks for work.
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The Robey: How Light Moves Through a Narrow Tower
A 1929 Art Deco tower at the Wicker Park six-corners junction, with upper-floor rooms and a rooftop.
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