Chris Rhodes captures the quiet soul of Belmond Splendido
Photographer Chris Rhodes has turned everyday moments at the Portofino jewel into luminous studies of light, colour and grace. His exhibition opens in New York this November.
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Chris Rhodes sees what others overlook: the precise angle of afternoon light across a jacket of deep crimson silk, the geometry of a keyboard glimpsed from behind, the texture of linen billowing between sea and sky. His lens finds the extraordinary in the ordinary, the choreography of a moment that might otherwise dissolve into the day.
At Belmond Splendido, perched above the pastel tumble of Portofino’s waterfront, Rhodes has captured the hotel’s quiet essence through the people and spaces that define it. A staff member turns from a synthesiser, their jacket glowing like a jewel against pale walls. Pale curtains frame an expanse of Mediterranean blue. These are not conventional hotel photographs; they are intimate studies of care, attention and the unhurried rhythm of genuine hospitality.
Rhodes will exhibit the work at the Aperture Gallery space in New York through 15 November. The series offers something rare: a photographer’s genuine encounter with a place, seen not through marketing or narrative, but through the patient observation that reveals character. Each frame holds the weight of a single, perfect moment, suspended between the ordinary and the transcendent.
Imagery courtesy of Belmond (@belmond).
