A Room with a View #1, (Park Inn, Berlin), 2007
A Room with a View #2, (Dom Henriques, Porto), 2007
A Room with a View #9, (Hotel on Rivington, New York), 2009
A Room with a View #4, (Fasano, São Paulo), 2007
A Room with a View #5, (Sheraton Lisboa Hotel), 2007
A Room with a View #6, (Arts, Barcelona), 2007
A Room with a View #7, (Istanbul), 2009
A Room with a View #3, (Basel), 2007
A Room with a View #8, (Four Seasons, Cairo), 2009
Room with a View #10, (Treasure Island, Las Vegas), 2009
A Room with a View #13, (Intercontinental, Hong Kong), 2010
A Room with a View #11, (Puerta America, Madrid), 2009
A Room with a View #12, (Grand Hyatt, Shanghai), 2010
A Room with a View #15, (Trident - N.Point, Mumbai), 2010
A Room with a View #16, (Hotel Lafayette, Paris), 2012
Untitled (Self-Portrait), 2007
Room with a View, 2008-2012
Inkjet print, dibond mounted. Framed. 110 x 145 cm
“It is a magic moment to go to your hotel room in a foreign city and move the curtain and look through the window at the city and its skyline. The impressions you get hold you back and make you enjoy the moment in silence. You will remember this view throughout your stay. You will recognize more and more details as you remember more and more places and buildings in the cities skyline and significances in the stereotype hotel room. (…) The room will be filled with your own layers of experiences, desires and wishes and these will be projections which you project on the view of the city. The room will be filled up with these experiences. Nuno Cera is interested in these layers of meaning, emotion, joy and fright. His photos fix these layers by showing the reflections and glances on the glass of the window.”
— Wolf Guenter Thiel (2012)
“Shot from hotel room high above the city streets, the layered images present internal reflections of inhabitation and the occasional, unidentified figure against the bright lights of nocturnal urban landscapes. The images projects a sense of alienation and detachment in which the locations – Jakarta, Mumbai, Madrid, Berlin, etc. – become interchangeable backdrops for an interior, private life.”
— Elias Redstone, Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography (2012)
“Nuno Cera studies different aspects of being human in the age of globalization. To do this, he deploys various different strategies. Some of his works reference literary themes or films, while others are fictional documentaries showing the private memories, dreams or nightmares of their protagonists. All of them have a smooth, technically perfect aesthetic, with unexpectedly deep and complex issues hidden beneath the glossy surface.”
— Lisa Beisswanger, Foto-Triennale Esslingen (2010)
“We can read Cera’s images as paintings, of light, that combine elements that would not ordinarily overlap – a lamp looms larger than an office block, a blank TV screen glows on the horizon, traces of life and latent love lap over the roof tops, a half naked body sleeps within the skyline. These images capture two complex layers of life collapsing into one another, moments where the representations of temporary domestic and urban worlds merge into one-dimension.”
— Louise Clements, A Room with a view, 1000 wordmag (2011)