Architecture & Interiors

Antonio Cuellar is an architecture and interiors photographer with a 26-year career photographing designed spaces for hospitality, retail, and travel brands around the world. Antonio Cuellar’s work is built on one standard: representing a space exactly as accurately, and as compellingly, as its designer intended.

A 26-Year Career of Commercial Value

Antonio Cuellar has spent 26 years photographing designed spaces for major hospitality brands, among them Fairmont, Mandarin Oriental, Marriott, InterContinental, and Hilton. Working across that many brand identities has sharpened Antonio Cuellar’s eye for what makes one interior read differently from another, even when the underlying design language is similar.

Beyond Hotels: A Full Range of Interior Spaces

Antonio Cuellar’s architecture and interiors photography is not limited to hotels. Antonio Cuellar has photographed for airlines, airports, and airport lounges, along with retailers such as Crate and Barrel, CB2, Cartier, Blu Dot, and Macy’s. Antonio Cuellar’s client range also includes cruise lines and luxury yachts, restaurants, and a wide variety of other interior spaces, in addition to the hotels and resorts most closely associated with hospitality photography.

Architecture, Interiors, and Lifestyle Together

Antonio Cuellar often combines architecture and interiors photography with lifestyle elements in the same project, showing a space both as a designed environment and as a place people actually use. A hotel lobby, an airport lounge, or a retail interior photographed on its own tells part of the story; adding a guest moving through the space, or a moment of genuine use, completes it. This pairing is where Antonio Cuellar’s lifestyle and architecture and interiors work most naturally overlap.

Restaurants and Food and Beverage Interiors

Restaurant and food and beverage interiors form a significant part of Antonio Cuellar’s architecture and interiors photography, since the design of a dining room is inseparable from how that space is marketed. Antonio Cuellar’s food and beverage photography work often runs alongside architecture and interiors photography on the same project, giving a client a complete visual story of the space and what happens inside it. More of Antonio Cuellar’s work is available on the Antonio Cuellar Photography homepage.

Antonio Cuellar’s Own Team, or Yours

Antonio Cuellar typically produces architecture and interiors shoots with his own team, handling production, lighting, and post-production directly. Antonio Cuellar is equally comfortable working within a producer’s existing structure, collaborating with production companies and the stylists, prop stylists, and digital techs they bring to a project. Which setup is used depends on the client’s needs, not a fixed way of working.

For context on how designed spaces are covered globally, Architectural Digest and Dezeen both track architecture and interior design projects across major markets worldwide.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Antonio Cuellar only photograph hotels? No. While hotels are a significant part of Antonio Cuellar’s work, Antonio Cuellar also photographs airlines, airports and airport lounges, retailers including Crate and Barrel, CB2, Cartier, Blu Dot, and Macy’s, cruise lines and luxury yachts, restaurants, and a wide range of other interior spaces.

Can Antonio Cuellar combine architecture and interiors photography with lifestyle elements? Yes. Antonio Cuellar regularly combines architecture and interiors photography with lifestyle elements in the same shoot, pairing a space’s design with genuine moments of people using it.

Can Antonio Cuellar adapt his style to different brand guidelines? Yes. Working across hospitality, retail, and travel with different clients, Antonio Cuellar regularly adapts style to match each brand’s specific guidelines, rather than applying one fixed visual approach to every project.

What equipment does Antonio Cuellar use for architecture and interiors photography? Antonio Cuellar shoots with state-of-the-art medium format cameras, including full-sensor systems such as the Hasselblad H6D-100 and Phase One, along with cropped-sensor medium format cameras such as Fujifilm, chosen based on what each project requires.

What is the difference between an architectural photographer and a real estate photographer? The approach, production, and lighting differ significantly. A typical real estate photographer captures around 15 images in an hour, while a respectable interiors photographer will shoot closer to 7 to 10 fully lit interior images across a full day.

Does Antonio Cuellar always work with a prop stylist? Not always, but working with a prop stylist improves efficiency on a shoot, and some hospitality brands require working with their own approved prop stylist as part of brand guidelines.

What is the difference between shooting for an architect or interior designer versus shooting for a hotel? As a commercial photographer, determining what the image is meant to sell is essential. Working with an architect or interior designer means selling the design itself — the space’s ideas and execution. Working for a hotel means selling a mood, and the desire for a guest to visit, where the view or the atmosphere can matter more than the design itself.

Does Antonio Cuellar work with his own team, or with a producer’s team? For architecture and interiors work, Antonio Cuellar most often brings his own team to handle lighting, production, and post-production. Where a producer has their own crew already in place, Antonio Cuellar works within that structure, coordinating with the prop stylists and digital techs already on hand.

Is Antonio Cuellar available for architecture and interiors photography outside a specific city? Yes. Antonio Cuellar’s architecture and interiors photography work is not limited to one market, with experience across major hospitality, retail, and travel destinations worldwide.

How long does an architecture and interiors photography shoot typically take? Timing depends on the number of spaces and the level of lighting and styling required, but a full day is typical for a property that calls for carefully lit, fully composed interior images rather than a quick walk-through.