Famed for restoring historic properties, Belmond luxury?hotel group is now collaborating with world-leading contemporary photographers to create bodies of work responding to their destinations, carefully pairing each artist with the personality of the chosen hotel. Coco Capitan photographed the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express in spring 2023 and winter 2024. Coco Capit-doesn-t like planes. Instead, she loves nothing more than classical forms of transportation - sailboats, yachts, vintage cars and, of course, the archetypal train journey. So when Capit-was invited to photograph the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express - with its original 1920s carriages and historic routes throughout Europe - she couldn-t say no. While on board the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, Capit-took the most instinctive approach, that of a curious traveller taking a trip with friends. Within the series, the relationship Capit-has built with the staff is interchangeable with the existing bond with her friends who join her o
