Photo project "Single rooms"

We present to you a series of photo portraits by Canadian photographer Steven Beckly, who chose as his subjects people in single rooms of inexpensive hotels and roadside motels.

According to Stephen Beckley, the purpose of his project was to explore the relationship that arises between the individual and the space that surrounds him at home. The author himself had multiple experiences of living in two homes, and these two unrelated places always affected his emotions, thoughts and behavior differently. As a result, Stephen realized that his individuality has an obvious division, and the accompanying feelings of anxiety, instability and impermanence.

His houses were divided, just as his personality was divided. And Stephen began to think about how he himself influences his house, and what influence the house has on him. These ideas inspired the photographer to study the relationship in the pair personality-house, provided that the usual concept of a house, as a cozy place where everything around is his own, will be replaced by something else. For example, a hotel room.

The photographer used the interiors of roadside inns and small hotels as a backdrop for the shoot. Used as temporary housing, these spaces seemed to offer their own versions of the development of events, creating their own subtle thread of narrative. The subjects had only a few hours to settle into the rooms, to give them their own individuality, so that a portrait could be created. And thanks to the relationships that a person built with the space around him, a temporary person appeared in the temporary lodging.

New Woodbine Motel, room 239.

New Woodbine Motel, room 18.

Stirling Inn, room 233.

Idlewood Inn, room 5.

Andrew's Motel, room 107.

Andrew's Motel, room 204.

New Elgin Motel, number 3.

New Elgin Motel, number 6.

Motel Lido, room 237.

Eastside Motel, room 31.

Eastside Motel, room 22.

New Woodbine Motel, room 17.