Love Hotels

Unlike the dank motels where Americans allegedly seek anonymous sex,
Japan’s love hotels are playful and unapologetically sexual.
Photographer Misty Keasler shows the humor, desire, and even the
loneliness of these empty rooms.

Misty Keasler studied photography at Columbia College and graduated with a BA in spring of 2001. She contributes to Harpers, the New York Times, the London Daily Telegraph Magazine, Time, Dwell, Esquire, and Newsweek among others. She was awarded the 2003 Lange-Taylor Prize, included in PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers and the book 25 Under 25 Up and coming American Photographers. Her first monograph, Love Hotels,
from Chronicle Books will be followed by a show of the same title at
the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Jenkins
Johnson Gallery New York, and Photographs Do Not Bend Dallas at the
beginning of 2007. Her work is included in the permanent collections of
the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic
Art, Japan, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Her first camera was a Polaroid given to her on her 7th birthday.