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Two people, one studio, seventeen years of storefronts

Black Paw Photo is Anthony and Orsi — a husband-and-wife team that has been photographing and filming businesses since 2009. We started with a camera, a ladder, and a hunch that most companies were being shown to the world far worse than they deserved. Seventeen years later, that hunch has turned into a portfolio spanning car dealerships, gyms, jewelers, law offices, vineyards, museums, and just about every kind of commercial space in between.

How we work

Every assignment starts with the same question: what does a customer need to feel before they'll walk through this door? For a showroom that might be gleam and scale. For a medical office, calm. For a bar, the promise of a good night. We light, compose, and edit toward that answer — then deliver files sized and formatted for wherever they'll actually live: your website, your Google Business Profile, print, or a broker's listing sheet.

Because we're two people rather than a rotating crew, the photographer who scouts your space is the one who shoots it and the one who edits it. Clients tell us that continuity is why they keep calling year after year — some, like Blink Fitness, have had us photographing their locations for over a decade as they grew from their first New York gyms to over a hundred sites in six states.

A shoot in focus: a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, reimagined

One of our favorite product assignments: a custom-converted Mercedes-Benz Sprinter — a rolling executive suite with Crestron-controlled everything, Polk audio, hand-stitched leather and mood lighting that would embarrass most lounges. Vehicles like this are sold on craftsmanship you can only prove visually, so the brief was simple and brutal: make every surface testify.

Behind our cameras

We're rarely photographed ourselves — we're usually the ones holding the camera — but here's what a working day looks like: tripods in showrooms before opening hours, climbing whatever gets the angle, and the occasional rooftop when a building deserves it.

Companies that trust us with their image

From global brands to neighborhood institutions, these are some of the names we've photographed or filmed for over the years.

One studio, five specialties

Black Paw Photo is the parent studio of a small family of specialist sites. When a project calls for aerial work we fly it under Sky View Pros, our drone division; interactive walk-throughs and Google tours are handled through Inside Business NYC; and the same eye for detail shapes our web design work at Boheema and the animal portraits at NJ Pet Pics. You can see how it all fits together on the portfolio page.