Iconic visual campaigns for elite hospitality.
Complete creative and media direction for the world's finest hotels, resorts and villas: concept, photography, motion and the campaign that ties them together.
A studio, not a photographer.
Most properties don't need more pictures. They need a point of view: one eye directing how a place looks, moves and is remembered across every channel.
Creative direction
The concept and the look, set before anyone picks up a camera.
Photography
Images with the weight to anchor a campaign, not fill a gallery.
Motion & film
The same world in movement: directed, scored, sequenced.
Campaign & media
Cut and delivered for the brand book, the suite and the feed.
Selected clients
We create iconic visuals that last a lifetime, not trend chasers but sensory storytellers.
A campaign should look as right in ten years as it did the week it shipped. Trends date a property; an icon keeps selling it.
Images a guest carries for life, not pictures forgotten by the next scroll. We shoot for the long memory, not the feed's short attention span.
Photography and film directed as a single sensory experience, interpolated frame to frame, so the still and the moving image feel made by the same hand.
Every project gets exactly what it needs — nothing more, nothing less. Precision over excess, intention over volume. The right image at the right moment.
Yotam Sandak · Creative director
Between two oceans.
Sandak Studio was shaped by two coastlines and two distinct luxury worlds. The creative eye was formed in the Caribbean: St Barths, Saint Martin, the islands where the light is hard, the water impossibly blue, and one frame has to carry a whole way of life.
Today the studio works from Palma de Mallorca, directing campaigns across the Mediterranean and, for the right project, anywhere on earth. More than two decades behind the lens, one conviction throughout: an image should outlast the season it was made in.
The method is simple: natural light, real rooms, as few moving parts as possible. The same eye that has directed work for Belmond, Relais & Châteaux, Cheval Blanc, Engel & Völkers and iconic names across both hemispheres now points at the hotels, tables and rooms people travel for — from Caribbean blues to Mediterranean gold.
Start a project →Seen in print.
The studio's productions, and the properties we shoot, are featured across luxury travel, design and lifestyle press. A selection of covers and editorial spreads.
Featured & published in
Tell us the property, the dates, and what the images are for.
Every inquiry reaches Yotam directly. We reply personally, usually within 48 hours. Or write directly: studio@sandak.studio