The slow hour

Room 4 · Casa Albarda, Porto

One frame, held open from the balcony rail to the bedside lamp. Scroll faster and the shutter stays open longer.

Eleven hotel rooms between Porto and Trieste, photographed in the hour after turndown, when the curtains are drawn and the lamps are lit for nobody yet.

“A room is only finished when someone switches on the lamp.”

The night porter, Casa Albarda

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