CHRIS SHAW: LIFE AS A NIGHT PORTER color director of the Maison Européenne

director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie

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

Georgia and Turkey

a universal life phase that transcends national and cultural borders

CHRIS SHAW: LIFE AS A NIGHT PORTER color director of the Maison EuropéenneABOUT: 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