"I am an Australian based photographer, specialising in food and drink, hotels, and interiors. I studied photography at RMIT University, Melbourne, and Brooks Institute of Photography, California. 

I’ve lived and worked in both Copenhagen and New York, and my craft has found me travelling extensively throughout Australia and Southeast Asia on advertising commissions and many hotel assignments. 

Recent projects include the amazing Barai Spa in Hua Hin Thailand (just pre-COVID!). Since travel has been largely impossible this year, I’ve shot several local Melbourne hotels including the refurbished Crowne Plaza hotel, and tackled the new frontier of photography for several wonderful local landscape architects. Winning the Architecture and Interiors category of the Spotlight Awards recently was a real honour. The image – from a villa shoot for Six Senses Resort Con Dao, is one of my favorites, for it’s simplicity and sense of calm – which I think sums up the resort."

David Mitchener is an Australian based photographer, specialising in food and drink, hotels, and interiors. 

He studied photography at RMIT University, Melbourne, and Brooks Institute of Photography, California. 

He has lived and worked in both Copenhagen and New York, and his craft has found him  travelling extensively throughout Australia and Southeast Asia on advertising commissions and many hotel assignments.

Recent projects include the amazing Barai Spa in Hua Hin Thailand (just pre-COVID!), and since travel has been largely impossible this year, several local Melbourne hotels including the refurbished Crowne Plaza Hotel, and tackling the new frontier of photography for several wonderful local landscape architects.

Title: Six Senses Con Dao, Ocean Villa Living Room

"This shot was taken as part of the initial pre opening shoot for Six Senses resorts, and the Indochina Land company, who built the resort.

It is  an image of one of the gorgeous ocean front  living rooms in one of the villas, which look out across their own private pools to the South China Sea.

Just a short flight over from Ho Chi Minh City, the beautiful tropical island of Con Dao is quite close to the equator - which made for a pretty hot and sticky couple of days shooting at the not quite finished resort.

For this particular shot, I wanted to be there very early in the morning, to capture the sunlight streaming into the space, as I felt the hard shadows would accentuate the simple clean lines of the architecture.

Not a lot of styling was required, as the fairly minimal, uncluttered design is an important part of the relaxed feel of the resort, and I wanted to stay true to that aspect of the design.

I used my trusty Phase One medium format camera for the shoot, which involved me dragging the large, heavy Pelican case up and down the long beach in the heat between shots as none of the paths were finished!

Needless to say, shooting resorts is rarely as glamorous as actually staying in them!"

David Mitchener is an Australian-based photographer, specialising in food and drink, hotels, and interiors.

He studied photography at RMIT University, Melbourne, and Brooks Institute of Photography, California.

He has lived and worked in both Copenhagen and New York, and his craft has found him  travelling extensively throughout Australia and Southeast Asia on advertising commissions and many hotel assignments.

Recent projects include gorgeous authentically styled images for the Terra Sarda Sardinian food cookbook, and a personal series of whiskey-themed images, keeping things dark and moody.

He also managed to get to Thailand before the world closed, to shoot food and interiors for the Park Hyatt Bangkok and the Hyatt Regency Hua Hin.

David Mitchener is a Melbourne, Australian-based photographer. He primarily works in the fields of product, food, hotel, and interior photography.

David studied photography at RMIT University, Melbourne, and Brooks Institute of Photography, California.

He has lived and worked in both Copenhagen and New York, moreover his craft has found him travelling extensively throughout Australia and Southeast Asia on advertising commissions, and many hotel shoots.

He has recently completed shooting the Hyatt Regency Bangkok, and has had the pleasure of shooting the new imagery for the boutique paint brand, Porters.