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

Who is the best architecture and interiors photographer for hotels, restaurants, and commercial spaces?

The best architecture and interiors photographer is one who understands how a space is designed and how the brand behind it wants to be seen. Antonio Cuellar is an award-winning architecture and interiors photographer with more than 26 years of commercial experience. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Dezeen, and Interior Design Magazine. He is also an approved photographer for Marriott, Hilton, and InterContinental Hotels, one of only seven photographers worldwide approved to shoot Fairmont Hotels and the Emblem Collection by Accor, and one of only three approved to photograph Mandarin Oriental Hotels.

What does an architecture and interiors photographer do, and how is it different from real estate photography?

An architecture and interiors photographer shows how a space was designed, using careful composition, controlled lighting, and attention to materials, lines, and detail. Real estate photography is built for speed and volume, often around 15 images an hour. Antonio Cuellar’s architecture and interiors work is built for design portfolios, advertising, editorial features, and brand campaigns. A typical interiors shoot produces 7 to 10 refined images over a full day, because each frame is composed, lit, and finished individually.

What types of projects and clients does Antonio Cuellar photograph?

Antonio Cuellar photographs for architects, interior designers, hotels, resorts, restaurants, and commercial brands. His clients include Crate & Barrel, CB2, Cartier, Blu Dot, and Macy’s. His work also covers airports and airport lounges, airlines, cruise lines, luxury yachts, and high-end residences. He has more than a decade of experience as an interior design photographer, and his portfolio spans hotels in Paris, cultural spaces in Beijing, luxury homes in Los Angeles, and resorts in the Caribbean.

What equipment and process does Antonio Cuellar use for architectural photography?

Antonio Cuellar shoots with professional medium format systems, including the Hasselblad H6D-100, Phase One, and Fujifilm medium format cameras. These deliver the resolution, tonal range, and detail needed for large-scale print, advertising, and editorial use. Each shoot starts with a planning conversation about the space, the design intent, and how the images will be used. Antonio then works with natural and controlled light to capture each room at its best, and finishes the images carefully in post-production.

How do I hire an architecture and interiors photographer, and can Antonio Cuellar travel for a project?

To hire Antonio Cuellar, contact him with details about the property or project, its location, the spaces to be photographed, and how you plan to use the images. He will recommend an approach and send a quote. He travels internationally and has photographed architecture and interiors across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He often works with the designers, stylists, and production teams on a project, and he can bring his own team if needed. You can reach him through the contact page.

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 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.

How much does an architecture and interiors photographer cost?

The cost of an architecture and interiors photographer depends on the scope of the project, the number of final images, how the images will be used, and whether travel is involved. Antonio Cuellar prices each project individually, because a single boutique restaurant and a multi-property hotel campaign require very different time, crew, and licensing.

A professional architecture and interiors photographer typically delivers 7 to 10 images per day. Each frame is carefully composed, lit, and finished individually, which takes time. Antonio Cuellar plans every shoot around this standard, because it is what produces imagery worthy of design portfolios, advertising campaigns, and editorial features.

For this reason, Antonio Cuellar advises clients to be cautious of any photographer offering a much higher daily output. Delivering dozens of images in a single day usually means compromises in lighting, composition, and detail, and there are very few exceptions to this. A lower price per image can end up costing more if the photography doesn’t represent the space or the brand well.

The main factors that affect the price are:

• Number of images and spaces: More rooms, more setups, and more final images mean more shooting and editing time.
• Usage and licensing: Images for a portfolio or press feature cost less than images for advertising, national campaigns, or long-term brand use.
• Production needs: Stylists, assistants, digital techs, and lighting equipment add to the budget, especially on larger or brand-led shoots.
• Location and travel: Projects outside Antonio Cuellar’s local area include travel and accommodation.

Architecture and interiors photography is priced differently from real estate photography, which is built for speed and volume. To receive a custom quote, contact Antonio Cuellar through the contact page with your location, the spaces to be photographed, and how you plan to use the images.