"Al Marjan Island is reclaimed ground, which means every property on it is new and photographs new: clean lines, hard edges, nothing weathered to soften a frame.

So the coverage leaned on the coast instead of the concrete. Shot with the water in play wherever it could be, and timed away from the middle of the day, when Ras Al Khaimah light goes flat and white and takes the colour out of the sea along with it.

A beach hotel is bought on one question: how far is the water. Every wide frame here answers it without the guest having to read a word."