Colin Miller is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. His photography focuses on architecture and interior design throughout the world. His work has been published in a variety of magazines, books, and websites including Elle Decor, Architectural Digest Germany, the New York Times, Town and Country, and Bon Appetit, among many others. He studied photography at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Ray Mock is a graffiti documentarian, street art critic, zine maven, and founder of the street art/editions publisher Carnage (carnagenyc.com). He is the author of Banksy in New York (2014), a firsthand account of the internationally renowned street artist's month-long residency in the city. His photography has been featured in numerous books (Graffiti 365, Wild Art, Banksy- You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat), and he is a frequent contributor to Juxtapoz, Vice, Mass Appeal, The Creators Project, and other publications.
...A heartfelt celebration of the Chelsea as it is today. --Aimee Farrell, T: The New York Times Style Magazine ...A big, colorful celebration of more than two dozen residents, their living spaces and their stories. --Katherine Roth, Associated Press A behind-the-scenes look into the hotly contested battle to preserve one of New York's most storied residences. --Geoffrey Montes, Galerie Magazine The book beautifully captures around half of the remaining residents and their apartments, many of which feature layers of fabrics, art, wallpaper, textures, and a life lived--a maximalist aesthetic you might expect to find there, and a storied tapestry you would never find at a regular hotel. These are the apartments of New Yorkers--collectors of life, eccentric devotees of the city, haters of a cookie cutter. Their homes will soon live in stark contrast to the hotel rooms being built around them for tourists. --Jen Carlson, Gothamist An ode to the Gilded Age residency in the new millennium. --Sara Rosen, Feature Shoot While times have changed, Mock and Miller discovered through documenting the intimate lives of these stalwart residents that the hotel's bohemian spirit still prevailed. Their book, Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven, opens a window into this world, featuring the quirky decor and style of these New York aesthetes with their equally colorful and eccentric lives. --Laura Powers, ...Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven, is part love letter to the bygone spirit of the hotel and part awareness campaign, offering insight into the complicated socio-economic dynamics of the hotel's current iteration. --Julia Brenner Forbes