Three Belmond locations celebrated in footage at Picture London 2024

Celebrated at Picture London 2024, three new pictures books supply a unusual, behind-the-scenes perception into three luxurious Belmond lodges and escapes – the Venice Simplon-Orient-Specific, the Caruso Resort on Italy’s Amalfi coast, and Mount Nelson Resort in Cape City. According to the LVMH-owned hospitality group’s sponsorship of the pictures truthful (16-19 Might), photographs from the newest books in Belmond’s As Seen By sequence take over the Portico Rooms at Somerset Home, the venue’s second-largest gallery area. 

The exhibition is an thrilling show of labor by photographers Coco Capitán, Letizia Le Fur and Rosie Marks, captured throughout their respective experiences at a Belmond vacation spot. The pictures mirror their particular person photographic approaches, but in addition their private fascination with journey and the properties they’ve documented. 

See a brand new aspect to 3 Belmond lodges and escapes

Venice Simplon-Orient-Specific by Coco Capitán

‘You stare by way of the practice window, and that place the place you’re is each the identical and never the identical to the one you had been a minute in the past,’ wrote the London-based Spanish photographer Coco Capitán of considered one of her many gazing-out-the-window classes throughout her time on the Belmond Venice Simplon-Orient-Specific. Capitán’s pictures is famend for its spontaneity and precision, capturing stunning, fleeting moments that may have in any other case vanished into the ether.

‘The facility of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Specific is plain. It’s shrouded in thriller and glamour, very very similar to Agatha Christie’s novel [Murder on the Orient Express]. I aimed to painting a recent and up to date imaginative and prescient whereas staying true to its lavish essence. Coming from a non-upper-class background, I sought to deliver a down-to-earth expertise to my photographs. The objective was to normalise the journey with out neglecting the luxurious of the Belmond expertise. Having acquainted faces round helped me obtain that sense of naturalness,’ Capitán tells Wallpaper*.

‘I’ve at all times liked travelling by practice. There’s one thing concerning the old-world appeal of analogue transport strategies that appeals to me greater than airports or planes, which at all times appear too crowded. What’s extra inspiring than sitting on a practice and gazing out the window? Time stands nonetheless, and also you get transported to a different world.

What I liked most concerning the expertise was the sense of being at dwelling on the transfer. Driving on a luxurious practice is such a singular expertise as a result of it appears like being in a five-star lodge on wheels. The bar was my favorite spot, with its distinctive moody environment. I might sip on an espresso martini and play a desk recreation to get myself pumped up for the night time forward.’

Caruso Amalfi Coast by Letizia Le Fur

Letizia Le Fur describes Belmond Caruso as a ‘place the place even the stones appear to whisper secrets and techniques to the ear of the solar’. The French photographer, who graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France in 1998 and first educated as a painter, has a particular visible type that goes past what meets the attention. Her visceral pictures reveals an entire new aspect to this property on the Amalfi Coast: one which feels otherworldly and enchanting.