Hello, we are Cherry Beach

Yohanna

Co-founder and family trip planner

Yohanna is French and American. She grew up in the marshes of the Cotentin in Normandy and has been crossing the Atlantic ever since she was a baby.

She studied literature at the Sorbonne and took an MBA in cultural project management in Paris, then built a career where hospitality, culture and luxury meet. She worked as a press officer for Paris cultural institutions such as the Musée Picasso and the Fondation Cartier, opened the first American shop of Officine Universelle Buly at Bergdorf Goodman in New York, and then led Buly’s international communications from Paris. Later she ran communications for the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Paris.

Since 2020 she has lived in Oslo, where she is raising two small children and planning trips that work for everyone in the family. She speaks French, English, Norwegian and Spanish, and she reads a hotel’s welcome in the first five minutes.

Christian

Co-founder and photographer

Christian is a Norwegian photographer who grew up just outside Oslo, then spent ten years in Paris and a stretch in New York. He started out as a photo assistant on fashion and advertising shoots. The pay was modest. The travel was not: Morocco, Mexico, the Bahamas, the US, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland and all over France, often staying in the kind of hotels Cherry Beach now writes about. One of those jobs took him to Lenny Kravitz’s place in the Bahamas.

Alongside the assistant years he built his own work, shown at international photo fairs and published as three photobooks.

Today he is a museum photographer in Oslo, creating the images for the websites and social media of six museums in the city: historic houses, collections, exhibitions and the people who make them work, plus film and video along the way.

He travels with Yohanna and their two kids, camera always out. He knows what makes a hotel look good on camera, and what makes it work for a family. At Cherry Beach he shoots and edits everything, so every stay we approve looks the way it feels to be there with kids.