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Adrére Amellal
I photographed Adrére Amellal during a six-week creative residency in Siwa Oasis, Egypt, in Nov./Dec. 2025. Producing architectural and landscape visuals for the storytelling of Visit Siwa. Adrére Amellal is a luxury positioned eco-lodge built entirely in traditional kershef : salt, clay and palm wood : inspired by ancient techniques of the region. No electric grid, relying solely on natural light arriving through narrow apertures, and oil lamps and candles at dusk. No wifi, turning the clock back slowly to a time of less external stimuli, absorbed in the material of the walls that have endured centuries of desert heat.
This place is the epitome of grounded luxury. Where stillness meets you with space to exist. To listen to all of your human senses. Where the luxurious aspect isn’t what they provide you with, but rather the absence of it. Simplicity.
To photograph this place was to understand something about architecture and energy that concrete and glass cannot teach. That when a building is made from the earth it stands on, it doesn't occupy the landscape. It belongs to it. Every frame in this series was chosen with that in mind. Not only to showcase what the property looks like, but to communicate what it feels like to move through it.
A full photographic production : architectural, interior and landscape documentation for web, editorial and social storytelling.