Hotel Monroe

Hotel Monroe is a staged photographic series that blurs the lines between genuine friendship and fictional characters. Set entirely in a photography studio, the work reimagines a group of college-age friends as sitcom archetypes—posing, laughing, and dramatizing their shared life in a space that mimics the idealized chaos of 90s sit-coms.

“Hotel Monroe” is more than an apartment: its revolving door of guests, dining table never empty, living room always occupied, and a place where they are all just passing through as their very first stop in NYC. These photos don’t document that place directly—they perform it. Shot in the glossy, high-key style of sitcom promotional material, the images invite viewers to question what is authentic and what is constructed.

Each pose, smile, and gesture is deliberately artificial—yet rooted in real relationships. The series uses the familiar tropes of TV families to explore how we narrate and perform our own roles within friend groups.