Hotel Photographer in Champagne
A hotel photo shoot designed for Champagne and its specificities
Champagne isn’t a destination like any other. Your guests come looking for something specific: an art of living, a UNESCO World Heritage terroir, an encounter with a world — that of the great houses, the vineyards, the cellars, and the exceptional hotels that have become its ambassadors. Your visuals have to tell that promise, not just show rooms.
Today a hotel in Champagne lives on several channels at once: its Booking listing, website, Instagram, TikTok, partnerships with Champagne houses, wine-tourism press kits, Meta and Google Ads campaigns. Each channel has its audience, its format, its pace. Yet most photo shoots deliver one uniform series, designed for a press kit from another era.
What a hotel photo shoot in Champagne includes
A complete photo library for your website and OTAs
Rooms, suites, public areas, fine-dining restaurant, champagne bar, spa, tasting cellar, terraces overlooking the vines, exteriors at sunrise and sunset. High-definition files in the formats required by OTAs and all booking platforms. Careful retouching, no heavy filters, true to the real atmosphere of your property.
Photo and video content for your social media
4:5 and 9:16 formats, vertical Instagram Reels and TikToks, carousels designed as genuine mini-series, visuals adapted to stories. Your community managers receive files ready to post as they are, not to be re-cropped in a rush the day before, a few hours ahead of a critical publication.
Lifestyle visuals with people
Room service brought at dawn, a guest in a bathrobe by the indoor pool, the sommelier presenting a bottle in the cellar, the chef mid-plating, a silhouette in a light-filled corridor. The kind of images that genuinely drive engagement on social media, where empty shots and spotless but soulless rooms often fall flat.
Press series and paid campaigns
For your press kits, your partnerships with Champagne houses, your campaigns with premium OTAs, your collaborations with destination management companies, and your Meta Ads, Google Ads or print campaigns. Files delivered in the resolutions and ratios each medium requires, with particular attention to showcasing the Champagne terroir.
Let’s talk about your project
Every project is a story to tell, a world to reveal and an experience to share. Together, let’s turn your property into a memorable and desirable experience.
Hotels I work with in Champagne and around Reims
I work throughout the Champagne region: Reims, Épernay, the Montagne de Reims, the Côte des Blancs, the Marne Valley, as well as Châlons-en-Champagne, Troyes and the Aube vineyards. With Reims 45 minutes from Paris by TGV, I travel there regularly, sometimes for a single day on targeted assignments.
The properties I work with: independent 4- and 5-star hotels, spa hotels, château hotels, charming guesthouses, Relais & Châteaux, wine estates with accommodation, prestige B&Bs, as well as the reception areas and boutiques of Champagne houses. I work on property openings as well as brand repositionings, website redesigns, changes of affiliation, the launch of a new wine-tourism season, or a simple yearly refresh of marketing content. Recently, I photographed the Hostellerie Briqueterie, a Relais & Châteaux in Vinay, near Épernay.
Specialising in lifestyle photo shoots, I create photographs that reflect the unique identity of each Champagne property.
Photo gallery
A selection of recent shots
Why work with a hotel photographer who specialises in Champagne?
A generalist photographer produces beautiful images. A photographer who specialises in hotels produces images that convert. And a photographer who knows the codes of Champagne produces images that speak to your target guests. The difference comes down to four specific points.
Knowing the terroir. A hotel in Champagne isn’t photographed like a Parisian hotel. The light on the slopes, the angle that showcases a tasting cellar, the staging of a bottle, handling reflections on crystal — all specific codes known to a photographer used to working in the region.
Knowing the channels. The same space isn’t photographed the same way for Booking, for an Instagram Reel or for a Meta campaign. Ratios, vanishing points, information density and lighting all differ. An experienced hotel photographer delivers the right versions for each use straight away, with no reprocessing needed.
Understanding operations. Photographing a hotel in full operation means working around housekeeping schedules, guest arrivals, breakfast service and peak hours at the bar. A photographer used to hotels knows how to organise a shoot without the operations manager having to worry for a single minute.
A marketing mindset. A hotel photo shoot is not an architecture session. The goal is to trigger a booking, a click, a share. Every frame, every lifestyle scene, every staged moment is designed with that conversion goal in mind.
Hedi Hamadache, hotel photographer in Reims & Épernay
I’m Hedi Hamadache, a photographer based in Paris who travels regularly to Champagne for hotel clients. My background as a multimedia engineer leads me to think of every image in terms of its final use, and to treat still photography and short-form video as two inseparable parts of the same production. Today I work mainly with upscale hotels and restaurants in the Île-de-France region and in destinations with a strong tourist identity, Champagne first among them.
How much does a hotel photo shoot in Champagne cost?
Pricing depends on the number of images delivered, the number of shooting days, whether video content is included and the length of the trip. A detailed quote is sent within 48 hours after a first conversation to scope your needs.
Is travel from Paris charged as an extra?
For assignments of at least one full day on site, the Paris–Reims journey (45 minutes by TGV) is included in the package at no extra cost. For shorter assignments or work in Épernay, Châlons-en-Champagne or Troyes, a travel fee applies, specified in the quote.
Who takes care of styling and preparing the spaces during the shoot?
Your team stays in charge of preparation (housekeeping, F&B, front desk, sommeliers), but I send you a precise checklist beforehand of everything that needs to be ready for each scene. On the day, I work hand in hand with your teams on the final adjustments.
Can I use the images for paid campaigns and social media?
Yes. Usage rights for all digital marketing purposes — website, social media, OTAs, Meta campaigns, Google Ads, email marketing — are included by default. Press and outdoor advertising uses are covered by an additional licence, specified in the quote.
Do you also photograph cellars, vineyards and tasting rooms?
Yes. Photographing cellars, vat rooms, vineyards and tasting scenes is a full part of the shoots I do in Champagne. These visuals fit naturally into the marketing photo library of a hotel or a wine estate.
How quickly are the files delivered?
Between 10 and 15 working days after the shoot, depending on volume. A selection of “express” images can be delivered within 48 hours for urgent communication (opening, press event, wine-tourism fair, seasonal campaign).
Do you also make videos for Instagram and TikTok?
Yes. I shoot and edit short vertical formats (Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts) during the photo shoot. Filming is organised alongside the photography to make the most of the time on site.