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01The specialty

Expert art documentation & digitization.

Professional art photography for documentation, digitization, archives, catalogs, websites, insurance records, and reproduction files in New York.

Preserve and share your vision with professional art photography.

Artwork deserves documentation that respects the thing itself. Color should stay true. Texture should survive. The final files should work for a gallery, a grant, a catalog, a website, or a long-term archive without needing a nervous little explanation attached.

We photograph paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation details, framed work, and flat work for artists, galleries, collectors, and museums in NYC. The process is careful, practical, and built around what the image has to do after the shoot.

What this is for

  • Exhibition and gallery submissions.
  • Catalog, portfolio, and website images.
  • Print reproduction and Giclée workflows.
  • Archive and insurance records.
  • Installation views and detail images.

What you receive

Clean, edited files prepared for the use case: web, print, catalog, archive, or reference. Three tiers available — from a single color-accurate hero to a full multi-format set with video. We can document a single piece, a full body of work, an installation, or a larger studio archive.

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02What it costs

Three tiers. Editing always included.

$50/piece

Essential

One color-accurate hero shot. Color-corrected and export-ready for web, portfolio, or quick archive.

Websites · portfolios · quick archive

$85/piece

Standard

Hero shot plus two separate hi-res detail crops. Color-corrected and print-ready.

Gallery submissions · grants · catalogs

$150/piece

Gallery

Hero, two detail shots, and a 15–30 second video clip. The full set — for work that needs to live in archives, insurance files, or high-resolution print workflows.

Insurance · full archive · print reproduction

Add-ons

  • Glazed or framed work — polarized lighting rig. $200 flat.
  • Video clip added to Essential or Standard — +$50/piece.
  • Rush delivery (under 3 business days) — +25%.

Volume

  • 10–19 pieces — 10% off.
  • 20+ pieces — we’ll quote directly.

Good to know

  • Standard delivery: 10 business days.
  • No travel fee within Manhattan.
  • Digital delivery only.

03Art listing examples

See how documented artwork can live online.

A mock listing, not a store. It shows how full views, close details, and motion can make documented work clear and believable online.

Oil on canvas

Color-accurate full view, close details, and a small motion study.

Detail study

Same gallery system, different detail language. Archive-ready.

04See the work

Documentation in practice.

Oil on canvas, miniatures, mixed media — documented for archives, galleries, and print. All shot by us.

Oil on canvas, full documentation view Painting documentation, wide crop Oil on canvas, catalog square Painting, portrait orientation, archive documentation Miniature painting, catalog documentation Oil on canvas, vertical artwork documentation Painting, wide format documentation Miniature painting, square catalog view Oil on canvas, detail documentation Painting, square archive crop Miniature painting, glazed surface documentation Painting, vertical full-view documentation
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Accurate color

A controlled capture workflow for work where color, surface, and detail actually matter.

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Files with a job

Images prepared for portfolios, submissions, websites, catalogs, archives, insurance, or print.

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Art-world eye

We understand what artists and galleries need because this is the world we come from.

Step 01

Consultation

We look at the work, the final use, and any constraints before the shoot.

Step 02

Capture

We photograph the work with careful light, alignment, and attention to surface.

Step 03

Editing

Files are cleaned, corrected, and prepared for their actual destination.

Step 04

Delivery

You receive organized exports ready for web, print, archive, or submission.

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Bring us the work. We’ll make it last.

Tell us about the piece, the show, or the shoot. We’ll reply like humans and tell you honestly how we’d approach it.

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