CHRIS SHAW: LIFE AS A NIGHT PORTER color The anticipation pays off

The anticipation pays off

She seeks to immortalise the place and maintain a record of a rural way of life which she sees as heading towards extinction

Rather than documenting the city itself

The project that has become the classics of Ukrainian photography

CHRIS SHAW: LIFE AS A NIGHT PORTER color The anticipation pays offABOUT: Chris Shaw spent ten years working in London hotels, all the while using his camera to both document the hotels' unexpected human spectacles and keep himself awake through the long hours of his shift. Whether capturing prostitutes waiting between "Johns," weary hotel staff, the inebriated and profligate guests, or the details of the hotels' faded grandeur, Shaw's images transcend the physical boundaries of a place, and instead capture a state