Have you noticed the “Love Hotels” portfolio at Nadav Kander’s page at stocklandmartel.com? I hadn’t looked at it since stocklandmartel.com relaunched earlier this year, so I thought I’d revisit it. The 17 images on display in “Love Hotels” are from Nadav’s “Rest/Stay” series, which centers on motel rooms in America and Europe, as well as rooms in some of Japan’s so-called love hotels and a brothel in South Korea.
All of the rooms are uninhabited, though they bear signs of life in the form of unmade beds, the odd piece of luggage, a switched-on TV set. The images have a melancholy quality, one of loneliness. Some of them read as portraits of emptiness, while others communicate that dislocated feeling you get when you’ve taken yourself completely out of your familiar context. That’s how I see them, anyway. You should decide for yourself. Here are seven photos from the series.
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"Do you still love me?" New York. Photo by Nadav Kander, from the series "Rest/Stay."
Stars love hotel, Tokyo. Photo by Nadav Kander, from the series "Rest/Stay."
Hotel room, Scarborough, England. Photo by Nadav Kander, from the series "Rest/Stay."
Enjoy Box love hotel, Tokyo. Photo by Nadav Kander, from the series "Rest/Stay."
Brothel, South Korea. Photo by Nadav Kander, from the series "Rest/Stay."
Slag Heep love hotel, Tokyo. Photo by Nadav Kander, from the series "Rest/Stay."
Hotel room, Bewley, California. Photo by Nadav Kander, from the series "Rest/Stay."
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Awesome.