An intimate collection of images produced around the world, it represents the culmination of a three year period of research, travel, and human connection. Born from a deep reverence and respect of travel cultivated from the time he received his first passport at 15, the images present a multi-textured paean to hotel life, more than a luxurious stopover or sanctuary — though it touches those things — but also a powerful locus of energy, mysterial and enveloping, charged with emotional affinity. Ishmael’s hotel rooms contain multitudes, conveyed through his subjects: a correspondence of ideas, culture, vulnerabilities and possibilities. My Hotel Room Book finds Ishmael fully open to them all.
