HAILEY KWIATANOWSKI SHARES HER STORY OF DISCOVERING TWO SEPARATE DECEASED MEN AT THE HILLTOP INN, WHICH HER FAMILY MANAGES AND PARTIALLY OWNS. PITTSBURGH, PA. 2026.
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A KIND NIGHT MANAGER TAKES PITY ON ME AND "FINDS" ME A ROOM AT FULLY-BOOKED LANDMARK HOTEL, THE FOURTH BUDGET PROPERTY I TRY AT WHAT IS NOW 1:30 A.M. PIKEVILLE, KY. 2026.
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THE "MOUSE" OF SUNSET MOTEL, UNLEASHED, CHARGING AT ME AT THE SUNSET MOTEL PARKING LOT AS THE OWNER YELLS FROM A DISTANCE, "DON'T WORRY, SHE'S ONLY A MOUSE!". LEXINGTON, KY. 2026.
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TODD (FAR LEFT ON OVERHANG) SCRAPES PAINT OFF THE "M." THE "D" WILL BE REPLACED. THE NEON LIGHTING THAT ONCE GLOWED IN THE SHAPE OF THE LETTERS WILL NOT. CUMBERLAND, MD. 2026.
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BUTTER (EMANUEL HILL) CONTROLS THE ELEVATOR DURING THE EVACUATION OF THE LELAND HOTEL. I AM DENIED ENTRY BUT I FIND A WAY TO SNEAK UP. DETROIT, MI. 2025.
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THE HALF-LIT SIGN AT KING'S REST COURT MOTEL ALONG CERRILLOS ROAD IN SANTA FE, NM. 2025.
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JESSIE BARTHOLOMEW & HIS SERVICE DOG, "DOG", ARE TURNED AWAY AT DUSK FROM THE ECONOMY INN BECAUSE THE OWNER CONSIDERS HER A PET. ITHACA, NY. 2026.
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Extended Stay Field Notes: An Unfinished Journey is a companion to Extended Stay exhibition, scheduled for release in October 2027.
Travel alongside award-winning documentary photographer and writer, Karen Lippowiths, as she chronicles America’s shadow housing system of low-budget motels across more than nine thousand miles, thirteen states, thirty cities, and nine months. Through documentary photographs, intimate roadside stories, dark humor, and unguarded reflection, Lippowiths confronts the risks, moral questions, and fragile human connections that shape both the journey and the work.
Part journal, part anthology, part photographic essay, and part personal reckoning, Extended Stay offers a candid account of gaining access, building trust, confronting danger, making mistakes, and wrestling with the ethical questions that arise whenever a photographer carrying a camera enters someone else’s private life. Along the way, Lippowiths reveals the uncertainty, fear, pain, hope, absurdity, and unexpected tenderness found in the people and places she encounters.
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EXTENDED STAY FIELD NOTES: AN UNFINISHED JOURNEY
discover the lives unfolding behind motel doors in America's hidden housing market
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“Lippowiths gives witness to the human cost of America’s housing crisis through evocative prose and haunting images.”
- Steven Rimmer
Executive Director, Detroit Tenants Union
“Required reading for anyone who believes in dignified housing.”
- Donovan McCarty
Director, Housing Justice Clinic, Michigan State University
“Lippowiths uses words and photography to tell a complete story about the housing crisis in America."
- Tristan Taylor
Writer, Left Voice
praise for Extended Stay Field Notes: An Unfinished Journey