We capture what a place feels like.
Studio Avano creates cinematic photography and motion for distinctive stays, restaurants and experiences.
We capture not only how a place looks, but how it moves, sounds and feels to be there.
Based on the Costa Brava — working across Spain and beyond.
A place is more than the sum of its spaces.
It is morning light moving across a wall. A table being prepared before the first guests arrive. The sound of water. A half-open door. Someone disappearing around a corner.
These are often the moments we remember.
Studio Avano combines editorial photography and moving image to create visual stories rooted in atmosphere, human presence and place.
We make the essential images your audience needs to understand where they are — and the unexpected ones that make them curious enough to want to be there.
Show the place. Suggest the experience.
Some images show you the place. Others make you wonder what lies beyond the frame.
Our services
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Editorial photography for hospitality, stays and experience-led brands.
A considered mix of clear spatial imagery, human moments and atmospheric details — created to give you a versatile visual library without losing the character of the place.
Spaces · People · Food · Details · Landscape · Experience
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Still and moving image, created as one visual story.
Alongside photography, we capture short cinematic observations: movement through a space, everyday rituals, shifting light, natural sound and the moments in between.
The result is a richer visual world for your website, social channels, press and brand communication.
Photography · Motion Studies · Short-form video · Natural sound
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For places that need more than a shot list.
We define what makes your place worth remembering and translate it into a visual narrative before the camera comes out.
From the rhythm of a day to the people, rituals, light and details that belong specifically to your world.
Visual story direction · Story concept · Visual references · Shot narrative
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We work with independent hotels, retreats, restaurants, creative stays and experience-led brands with a strong sense of place.
Places shaped by their surroundings, their people and the small rituals that make them different.
Our approach is cinematic but never detached from purpose: imagery should be beautiful, useful and unmistakably yours.
Questions you might have…
Every place is different, so every production is shaped around what is actually worth experiencing, seeing and remembering.
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We work with distinctive hotels, retreats, restaurants, creative stays and experience-led brands.
We are especially drawn to places with a strong relationship to their surroundings — whether that means landscape, architecture, food, culture or the people behind them.
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Yes.
A complete hospitality story needs both.
We create clear, considered images of the spaces themselves, alongside people, food, landscape, details and everyday moments that give those spaces meaning.
The aim is not simply to document a property, but to create a visual library that feels like one coherent world.
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A Motion Study is Studio Avano's approach to short-form moving image.
Rather than creating a traditional promotional video built around constant camera movement and rapid cuts, we observe the smaller moments that give a place its rhythm: water moving after someone has passed, a table being prepared, curtains catching the wind, footsteps, light changing across a room.
They can live independently or alongside photography as part of a larger visual story.
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Absolutely.
Cinematic does not mean unclear.
We balance atmospheric and observational imagery with strong, commercially useful photographs that clearly show the architecture, interiors, facilities and experience.
Some images explain the place.
Others make people want to discover the rest.
You need both.
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We prefer to observe rather than over-direct.
Where needed, we make small adjustments to composition, objects or positioning, but the aim is always for a scene to feel lived rather than staged.
We often work with real rituals already present in the place — preparing breakfast, opening a terrace, cooking, swimming, reading or simply moving through a space.
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Studio Avano is based on the Costa Brava and works throughout Catalonia and across Spain.
For the right project, we are available to travel internationally.