The Willis Tower Skydeck: Field Notes on Glass at 1,350 Feet
An enclosed observation deck on the 103rd floor of the Willis Tower, with glass on all sides and projecting glass ledges.
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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 Lowell, New York: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A small Upper East Side hotel where the rooms are domestic in scale — and the one frame that suits that.
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The St. Regis New York: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A Fifth Avenue hotel of gilded plaster, mirrors and chandeliers — and the one frame that shows it.
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The Godfrey Chicago: What a Retractable Roof Actually Changes
A contemporary hotel in River North with a rooftop venue that can be enclosed or opened to the sky.
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The Langham Chicago: Photographing Inside a Modernist Building
A hotel occupying a Mies van der Rohe riverfront tower, with clean-lined interiors and a terrace on the Chicago River.
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The Ludlow, New York: Field Notes on a Lower East Side Hotel
A hotel on New York's Lower East Side, surrounded by murals, cafes and historic architecture.
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The Four Seasons Chicago: Four Ways Out of the Vertical Venue Problem
A hotel occupying upper floors of a tower above the Magnificent Mile, with function rooms and guest floors on separate levels.
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The Museum of Science and Industry: When the Exhibits Are in the Photograph
A monumental 1893 building in Hyde Park, housing aircraft, locomotives and industrial machinery at full scale.
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The Bowery Hotel, New York: Field Notes on a Warm Dark Hotel
A New York hotel with warm, richly furnished interiors and spaces that flow easily from one to the next.
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The McKittrick Hotel, New York: Field Notes on a Deliberately Dark Venue
A New York venue with dark wood and velvet interiors and outdoor rooftop space above them.
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