Hotel Photography

The thing about luxury and boutique hotels is that unless you ask yourself ‘what is the story behind this building’, unless you actually ‘look’, you will never be able to capture it on film. Unless you chase the sunset, metaphorically and literally, you won’t have a shot at getting it right. After having photographed luxury hotels like the St. Regis in Bombay, and many boutique hotels in Rajasthan and Goa, I’ve realized that it’s not always the photographer that decides exactly what they want to say about the building. Sometimes, one needs to sit back and watch how the structure responds. And that’s exactly my process, when I shoot hotels.