No one is to be photographed in this project. The rooms are devoid of personality and so the images should convey this. The images created for this project are intended to create the feeling of displacement and display the generic aspects of modern hotel rooms. The photographs will be restricted to hotels in the UK ideally countrywide chains such as Travel Lodge where the rooms are truly bland and bare.
The number of hotel chains has been on the increase in the UK since 2003, the expansion of the hotel industry has continued. Over 150 new hotels opened representing some 10,000 rooms a similar figure to each of the previous five years. Plans already approved, together with many more announced, indicate that hotel construction is likely to continue at the same rate until at least the 2012 Olympics. Suggesting that more and more hotels are in demand meaning the number of people staying in these generic rooms increases and yet the rooms show no sign of their occupants.
Hotel rooms show this impersonality in extremes as they are home for hundreds of people yet show no aspect of the inhabitants when they are free of people. The hotel room as it waits for their next occupant has no personality. Despite it being a heavily used room the people who stay there leave no imprint. The item that shows this best in the hotel room is the bed where every inhabitant of the room will have slept. The photographs will show the lack of personality in these generic rooms and the beds in them. Information such as the rooms cost and the additional extras that come with each room will be included in a book and as captions along with quotes and anecdotes of peoples experiences in theses places lacking personality.
