Ember

A studio for hospitality & lifestyle brands

Editorial photography,
without a shoot day

Save your venue's scenes once. Send a phone snap of anything — a dish, a cocktail, a hotel room, a product. Get a finished, on-brand shot in under a minute.

Start free — 3-day trial See sample work
  • 400+ venues
  • 12,000+ shots shipped
  • Under a minute per shot
  • Cancel anytime
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Velvet Hour
1h
Velvet Hour
Velvet Hour Tonight's pour — smoked old fashioned, charred orange, single cube. From 6.
C
Calle 14
2h
Calle 14
Calle 14 Mezcal flight, three regions, one bar. Booking opens at 6.
T
The Drifter Hotel
3h
The Drifter Hotel
The Drifter Hotel Suite 04, west-facing, late afternoon light. Two nights left this month.
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Ombré Café
1h
Ombré Café
Ombré Café Single origin Yirgacheffe, brewed slow. Notes of jasmine and stone fruit.
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Lumen Bar
5h
Lumen Bar
Lumen Bar The Negroni Bianco. Crisp, dry, served under candlelight only.
B
Bivouac
2h
Bivouac
Bivouac Chef's table, Friday. Six courses, no menu, full surrender.
V
Velvet Hour
1h
Velvet Hour
Velvet Hour Tonight's pour — smoked old fashioned, charred orange, single cube. From 6.
C
Calle 14
2h
Calle 14
Calle 14 Mezcal flight, three regions, one bar. Booking opens at 6.
T
The Drifter Hotel
3h
The Drifter Hotel
The Drifter Hotel Suite 04, west-facing, late afternoon light. Two nights left this month.
O
Ombré Café
1h
Ombré Café
Ombré Café Single origin Yirgacheffe, brewed slow. Notes of jasmine and stone fruit.
L
Lumen Bar
5h
Lumen Bar
Lumen Bar The Negroni Bianco. Crisp, dry, served under candlelight only.
B
Bivouac
2h
Bivouac
Bivouac Chef's table, Friday. Six courses, no menu, full surrender.
N
Norden Sauna
4h
Norden Sauna
Norden Sauna Cold plunge, hot wood, ocean air. Weekend slots opening tomorrow.
N
Nomad & Co.
1h
Nomad & Co.
Nomad & Co. Packed light, headed south. New travel edit landing on the journal Friday.
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Tiger Lily Diner
3h
Tiger Lily Diner
Tiger Lily Diner Stack of three. Warm maple, brown butter, sea salt. Sundays only.
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Petit Marché
6h
Petit Marché
Petit Marché New season tomatoes, burrata, and basil from the rooftop garden.
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Foxtail Wine Bar
2h
Foxtail Wine Bar
Foxtail Wine Bar A skin-contact riesling, oysters, and the last of the evening light.
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Atelier Doré
1h
Atelier Doré
Atelier Doré Pastry of the week: hazelnut praline, dark chocolate, brown sugar tuile.
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Norden Sauna
4h
Norden Sauna
Norden Sauna Cold plunge, hot wood, ocean air. Weekend slots opening tomorrow.
N
Nomad & Co.
1h
Nomad & Co.
Nomad & Co. Packed light, headed south. New travel edit landing on the journal Friday.
T
Tiger Lily Diner
3h
Tiger Lily Diner
Tiger Lily Diner Stack of three. Warm maple, brown butter, sea salt. Sundays only.
P
Petit Marché
6h
Petit Marché
Petit Marché New season tomatoes, burrata, and basil from the rooftop garden.
F
Foxtail Wine Bar
2h
Foxtail Wine Bar
Foxtail Wine Bar A skin-contact riesling, oysters, and the last of the evening light.
A
Atelier Doré
1h
Atelier Doré
Atelier Doré Pastry of the week: hazelnut praline, dark chocolate, brown sugar tuile.

In service at restaurants, bars, hotels and lifestyle brands across Europe

Maison Aubade
THE DRIFTER HOTEL
Velvet· Hour
PESCE · CRUDO
Café Lumière
NORTH SAND CO.
H·Ô·T·E·LPomme
studiolinen
12,000+
Shots delivered
40+
Hospitality brands
< 60s
From snap to finished

Phone snap in · editorial shot out

What you send. What we send back.

No tripods. No softboxes. No two-week edit cycle. A snap during prep or on location, a finished shot before you need it.

Snap · 01Duck & romanesco — phone snapiPhone · prep
Ember · finishedDuck & romanesco — finished shot
Snap · 02Steak salad — phone snapiPhone · prep
Ember · finishedSteak salad — finished shot
Snap · 03Cocktail pour — phone snapiPhone · prep
Ember · finishedCocktail pour — finished shot

The studio

Quietly brilliant. Endlessly consistent.

Every shot is composed inside your venue's saved scenes — your linen, your tile, your light. The look is yours, repeated perfectly, every time.

Your scene, repeated.

Save the table, the bar, the surface, the suite, once. Every shot is composed inside it.

Editorial finish.

Considered light, considered shadow. The kind of work magazines and brand campaigns commission.

Always on brand.

Shoot a special, a new arrival, a refreshed suite at 11 — post it at noon. Seasonal drops and menus refresh in an afternoon.

Start your studio

How it works

Three steps, no shoot day.

01

Save your scene

Photograph your table, your bar, your tile, your linen. We keep the look on file forever.

02

Send a phone snap

A dish, a drink, a room, a product. Any phone snap works — taken during prep, on location, or mid-service.

03

Receive finished shots

Editorial-grade, on-brand, in formats sized for social, web, menus, delivery and press.

Built for hospitality growth

Built for hospitality growth.

Every image Ember creates is designed to be more than just a better-looking photo. It should help your venue promote menus, launch campaigns, sell experiences, support paid ads and stay visible online. For brands that need strategy, distribution and growth support, The Lobby provides the full system behind the content.

Explore The Lobby

Ember in service

Real brands. Real work.

V
Velvet Hour
1h
Velvet Hour
Velvet Hour Tonight's pour — smoked old fashioned, charred orange, single cube. From 6.
C
Calle 14
2h
Calle 14
Calle 14 Mezcal flight, three regions, one bar. Booking opens at 6.
T
The Drifter Hotel
3h
The Drifter Hotel
The Drifter Hotel Suite 04, west-facing, late afternoon light. Two nights left this month.
O
Ombré Café
1h
Ombré Café
Ombré Café Single origin Yirgacheffe, brewed slow. Notes of jasmine and stone fruit.
L
Lumen Bar
5h
Lumen Bar
Lumen Bar The Negroni Bianco. Crisp, dry, served under candlelight only.
B
Bivouac
2h
Bivouac
Bivouac Chef's table, Friday. Six courses, no menu, full surrender.
N
Norden Sauna
4h
Norden Sauna
Norden Sauna Cold plunge, hot wood, ocean air. Weekend slots opening tomorrow.
N
Nomad & Co.
1h
Nomad & Co.
Nomad & Co. Packed light, headed south. New travel edit landing on the journal Friday.

What it costs

One subscription. Every shot you'll need.

Connect your brand. Save your scenes. Shoot as often as you need.

£89
/ month

excl. VAT · cancel anytime

Unlimited scenes for your brand
Unlimited revisions and re-shoots
200 finished images per month
On-brand styling, lighting and finish
Social, menu, delivery, press and campaign formats
Team seats included
Start 3-day free trial

3 days free, then £89/mo · cancel anytime

The maths

Everything included, no extras.

EmberPhotographerIn-house
Monthly cost£89£1,200–£4,000£3,500+
Time to first shot2 minutes2–4 weeks2–3 months
Turnaround per shotUnder a minute10–14 days1–3 days
AdminNoneBriefs, shoot days, editsHiring, payroll, reviews
CommitmentCancel anytimePer projectSalary

Swipe to compare · Photographer and in-house figures are based on European hospitality and lifestyle industry averages.

Loved by hospitality & lifestyle brands

Run by operators, hosts and founders.

"It's the first thing in years that's actually saved us from booking a photographer every season."
Élise Marchand
Owner, Maison Aubade
"Our suite listings finally match the room you walk into. Bookings are up 18% since we switched."
Lena Vogt
Director, The Drifter Hotel
"I send a phone snap on the way to service. By the time I'm plating it's on Instagram."
Aïda Benali
Chef, Bivouac
"We used to pay an agency four figures a month for less. This is a different category of tool."
Tomas Lindqvist
Founder, Norden Sauna

Ember vs. the shoot day

Hiring a photographer is a logistics job. Ember isn't.

Before

The traditional shoot

  • — Book the photographer weeks in advance
  • — Block out a day on site
  • — Stage every shot twice for the camera
  • — Wait two weeks for retouched files
  • — Repeat for every drop, refresh or season
  • — Pay four figures per shoot
After

Ember Studio

  • — Save your scenes once, in five minutes
  • — Snap any subject — dish, drink, room, product — on your phone
  • — Receive finished work in under a minute
  • — Refresh seasonal drops the same afternoon
  • — Ship to socials, delivery and print in one place
  • — One flat monthly price

The Ember promise

Try a month. Keep the shots either way.

If your first ten shots don't sit beside your best campaign work, we refund the month and you keep every file. No deck, no calls, no clawback.

30-day shot-quality guarantee

On-brand or refunded

If the look isn't yours after onboarding, we refund the full month.

Unlimited revisions

Reshoot any scene, any subject, as often as you need — same flat price.

Cancel in one click

No contracts, no notice period. Pause or cancel from your dashboard.

Under-a-minute SLA

If a shot takes longer than 60 seconds to finish, the next ten are on us.

FAQ

Anything else?

The growth partner

Need help turning content into bookings?

Ember gives hospitality brands the visuals they need to show up consistently across social media, menus, ads and campaigns.

But better content is only one part of the growth system.

For venues that want a full hospitality marketing partner, Ember connects directly with The Lobby — our growth agency for hotels, restaurants, bars, cafés and experience-led venues.

The Lobby helps hospitality brands fill rooms, tables and events through content strategy, social media management, paid advertising, email/SMS marketing and customer retention systems.

Ember creates better content. The Lobby turns that content into bookings, footfall and repeat customers.

Work With The Lobby

For hospitality brands ready for a complete growth partnership.

Make every shot look the way your brand sounds.

Free for 3 days, then £89/month. Cancel in one click, anytime.

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