Preparation for the exhibition is progressing well. Each day this week, one image will be previewed on my blog, accompanied by a short story about the photograph or in this case, the photographs.
The attached shows the 5th Floor River Suites captured in
December 2007 whilst Bonhams conducted The Savoy Sale downstairs.
'Initially, I set to work during the Savoy Sale, the
December 2007 auction staged by Bonhams at the hotel. I decided to photograph
the nine River View suites stretching across the fifth floor during the two-day
duration of this event. It was the only time that I could shoot these rooms,
because prior to the auction they were fully booked. The Savoy’s fifth floor is
its centre. Every room on that level has a spectacular river view offering a
unique perspective. In each room, the desk and chair – which I repositioned to
face the window – represented, to me, the people who have passed through the
hotel during its 118-year history. The furniture was affixed with Bonhams’
auction tags, which signifies the present, while the view – displaying the
River Thames, the Royal Festival Hall and the London Eye – grounds each image,
establishing a sense of the hotel’s London presence and also symbolizing its
future. So the sequence ponders the Savoy’s past and contemplates what is set
to come.'
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