NORTH LIGHT

Stills & Motion Studio
Midtown, NYC

Big lights, small crews &
an obsessive edit room

The Studio

Northlight is nine photographers, editors and directors on one floor off Madison Avenue. We light food, clothing and hard objects for people who have to sell them, and we hand back every frame graded, captioned and ready to run.

Our Story

What We Offer

Recent Jobs

Four jobs that show the way we work: a drinks range shot in a single day, a car film that took most of a winter, a fragrance still life built in the corner of the studio, and an archive nobody had opened since 1997, scanned frame by frame

  1. Mixed drinks styled on a brass tray

    Bitter Hours

    Drinks Campaign
  2. Black coupe shot from the tail in low sun

    Night Shift

    Motion
  3. Glass scent bottle balanced on damp moss

    Moss and Amber

    Beauty
  4. Hands going through a box of studio prints

    Darkroom_199X

    Brand Archive
Northlight shot our spring range over two days and the retouch came back clean. They matched the glass to our pack color exactly, which nobody else had managed in four rounds of tests.

Teodora Vasile
Client Director — Halden Drinks

Our shops had never photographed well. Northlight rebuilt the lighting plan, shot across two nights, and we finally have a picture library the whole retail team can pull from all year.

Hana Brezinova
Retail Manager — Corso Interiors

Teodora Vasile in the studio
Marcus Oyelaran on a shoot day
Hana Brezinova in low light
Jonas Brekke and his camera
We brought them a half-formed idea for a launch film and got back a shot list we could actually budget. The cut ran for three weeks and beat our target.

Marcus Oyelaran
Product Lead — Okoro Mobility

I hire a lot of crews and this is the one I recommend. They turn up with a plan, they keep the set quiet, and the selects are in the shared drive before I have got home.

Jonas Brekke
Producer — Brekke Film & Stills

Photography and film,
from brief to final files

  • Headphones on, framed against open blue sky
  • Auburn-haired woman cradling one red bloom
  • Blue petals held up to half-hide a face
  • Grey knit coat in flat light
  • Man shot against a plain studio wall
  • An apple held up beside a model's face