Most places are sold on somebody else’s photographs.
BLACKBOOK commissions its own photography and film, for the cities in our guides and for the hotels, restaurants and experiences our members walk into. Shot to a brief, on location, for the surfaces a guest actually sees.
A hotel’s best rooms go out as a render. A restaurant’s dining room is a guest’s phone shot at the wrong hour. A city gets represented by whatever the stock library had. The place is better than its pictures, and the booking goes somewhere that looks better.
BLACKBOOK commissions its own photography and film — for the cities in our guides, and for the hotels, restaurants and experiences our members walk into. Shot to a brief, on location, for the surfaces a guest actually sees.
Dining · rooms, tables, service
The city · streets, coastlines, light
Properties · rooms, suites, arrival
Film, cut for the surfaces a guest actually sees
How the work is paid.
Every brief is priced before it is shot. The terms depend on the city, the place and how the work will be used, so we agree them with you directly.
- Photographers and filmmakersA fee for each commissioned brief, agreed before the shoot, with the licence set out in the brief.
- A share when members bookIf you shoot a place a member then books, you can share in the booking.
- Hotels, restaurants and experiencesA shoot priced to the brief, with the work yours to use anywhere, and running where our members are deciding.
For photographers and filmmakers
We brief shoots by city and by place. Stills and motion, on location, to a brief with a shot list — properties, dining rooms, treatment suites, courts, coastlines, streets. You shoot it, you upload it through your portal, and the work is licensed and paid.
If you shoot a place a member then books, you can share in it.
Roles open in Q2 2027. Send your work now and we will come back to you when briefs open in your city.
For hotels, restaurants and experiences
If your imagery is out of date, inconsistent across your rooms and outlets, or shot for a brochure rather than a phone, we can shoot it. A crew comes to you. Stills and film, made for the surfaces a guest actually sees — the app, your own site, your booking engine, your social.
The work is yours to use anywhere. It also runs where our members are deciding.
Shot on location · never stock, never a render