Selina
Roman

Please Disturb

The voices approach. A knock on the door. My heart races. It’s like a first date every two hours. I know they’re coming but I don’t know what to expect.


Please Disturb takes its title from the ubiquitous door hangers that signal to hotel/motel staff to not bother their guests. However, I want to be disturbed. From check in to check out, I use the motel room as a studio. Guests visit me in two-hour blocks in what is part studio visit and part photo shoot. Within a space that is both intimate and impersonal, my guests and I talk and collaborate on the images we will make. The resulting photographs are a product of concocted stories, shared memories and crossed physical and psychological boundaries.