Collection: Girls' Night Inn

In Girls’ Night Inn, photographer Jamie Nelson crafts a cheekily seductive fantasy set in a kitschy 1968 inn. Color, intimacy, and female power play collide through stylized interiors and cinematic compositions. Known for her love of color and vintage architecture, Nelson dazzles the viewer while exploring voyeurism through the lens of the female gaze.

This series follows two women on a road trip, captured in a liminal space where time, taste, and taboos blur. Inhabiting multiple themed rooms they primp in rococo vanities twined with plastic roses, lounge in candy-colored bedrooms, and stalk carpeted corridors in sheer nylons and vertiginous YSL heels.

Nelson explores the erotic undercurrents of female companionship, performance, and voyeurism by giving the viewer a look into their world, reminiscent of a vintage peepshow. Sometimes they pose. Sometimes they play. Wearing only pantyhose, designer shoes, and feathered hats, the women are opulent and free, undone and vulnerable. Whether crouched on shag carpet with a cigarette or caught mid-lipstick application, the women exist within their own bubble—one the viewer has been granted limited access.

With a distinctly feminine lens, Nelson inverts the male gaze. Her staging is deliberate: the pastel excess, the suggestive gestures, the campy sensuality. Their bodies—encased in glossy stockings and retro lingerie—are sculpted by shadow and neon, yet never objectified.