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We Move Different
NYC Photography Studio & Model Management Agency
Three doors. Pick yours.
Develop it yourself.
One frame from the archive. Pick a film stock, push or pull the exposure, drag the divider. This is the bench we stand at every night.
filter: none;
Light is a decision.
Aperture is the lens deciding how much of the world gets to be sharp. Stop the iris down and the same street frame trades its blur for depth, stop by stop.
ƒ/1.4 · dof 18%
background: gone
frm 01 · street editorial · 35mm · meter reads 100% · shoot in the real light
No mystery pricing.
Starting prices, straight up. Full packages are on each page.
first shoot · 15% off
Draft your call sheet.
Tap a service, a spot, a light. Watch the sheet write itself. Booking it takes one more tap.
Straight off the roll.
Samantha.
One frame, every day.
Pulled from the archive at midnight and pinned here for 24 hours. Tomorrow the wall rotates.
From the Streets to the Studio
I started shooting on the streets of New York with a beat-up camera and zero clients. Seven years later, Dante's Models is a working photography studio and modeling agency based right here in NYC.
Here's what that means in plain words.
If you want to model, we build you from zero. Test shoots, a real book, comp cards, and submissions to brands that actually pay. You don't need experience. Some of our models had never been in front of a camera before their first test. Now they have portfolios they're proud of and shoots on the calendar.
If you're a brand that needs faces, it's simple. Tell us the look, the date, and the budget. We handle the casting, the booking, and the shoot. Our people show up on time, prepared, and easy to work with.
And if you just want photos that look like you on your best day, that's half of what we do. Headshots, quinceañeras, sweet 16s, fashion, portraits. No stiff posing, no awkward silence. We put on music, we talk, we shoot, and you walk out with pictures you actually post.
One more thing, because people always ask. There's no fee to join the roster. We make money when you book work, not before.
This is NYC. We move different here.
They keep coming back.
The prints, on the table.
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