Andrew Cebulka Studio
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Commercial photography · creative direction · retained advisory
Charleston · working nationally · andrew@andrewcebulka.com
Practice
Commercial photography and creative direction
Recognition
James Beard Foundation nominee
Published
WSJ, NYT, Condé Nast, Garden & Gun, Food & Wine, AD
Clients
Marriott, Anheuser‑Busch InBev, Juliska, Indigo Road, The Dewberry

One eye. Twenty years.
Two ways in.

The studio is one practice with one pair of eyes behind it. You can hire it for a project, or you can keep it close by the month. Everything else on this page, including the software, exists to show you what that eye does when nobody is directing it.

Still life photography for The Wren Home
Still life·The Wren Home
The offer
01 · By the project

Photography, direction, or both together.

Food, hospitality and lifestyle brands. A steady hand that makes them look like themselves, but better. Good work refuses to look assembled.

  • Photography. Food, hospitality, lifestyle.
  • Creative direction. Voice, concept, systems.
  • Together. The eye across the whole project.
Begin a project
02 · Retained

A senior creative voice, kept close.

Not hired for one job and gone by next quarter. A monthly engagement across direction, audit and craft. Feedback when the next decision actually matters. Recommendations on vendors, talent and next moves. Shoots when shoots are the right answer. Three month minimum, and most run twelve.

  • Founders building a brand with one creative voice.
  • CMOs without a full-time creative director.
  • Hospitality groups carrying language across properties.
Begin a conversation
Selected work
PhoKingPhoKingFood, editorialEscapadaEscapadaLifestyle, fashionMiddleton Made KnivesMiddleton Made KnivesBrand, heritageThe DewberryThe DewberryHospitality, hotelFancypantsFancypantsFood, restaurantJuliska, Still LifeJuliska, Still LifeBrand, editorial
He doesn't just take beautiful photos. He understands brand storytelling, team dynamics, hospitality, and human emotion. He becomes invested in the work and in the people behind it, and that shows up in every image he creates.
Katharine Ames · Indigo Road Hospitality
Andrew has an eye for seeing what we do through a similar, but better lens than we do, and he's completed for us in a day what would take others two days to shoot. In a world of fast-moving trends and seasonal menus, his speed has dramatically increased our returns on every shoot.
Michael Shemtov · Honest to Goodness Hospitality
The full portfolio at andrewcebulka.com
Where the eye came from

I started on the other side of the kitchen. Years in restaurants taught me how a dish is meant to feel before it is tasted, and why the smallest details carry the whole story. Everything since has been the same job in a different room.

Good work refuses to look assembled. It is made by someone who has looked at enough to know what to leave out.

What the practice makes on its own

Six products, directed the way a shoot is directed.

The tools write the code and draft the words. What I do is decide what a thing is for, what it will refuse to do, and which of six versions is the one.

A commercial brief arrives with a brand, a deck and a room full of opinions. These arrived with none of that. They are the evidence, not the business.

See the work

AdelaideAdelaideA daily attention practiceOn the App StoreLintelLintelA daily card for two peopleOn the App StoreHundred FirstsHundred FirstsA question deck for the tableIn reviewPlumblinePlumblineA ninety day practice, and a printOn the App StoreTektonTektonForty days of scripture, for a manIn testingHadarHadarForty days of scripture, for a womanIn testing
The record
Commercial and hospitality

Anheuser‑Busch InBev · Marriott International · The Dewberry · Indigo Road Hospitality · Hall Management Group · SSP America · IBM · Juliska · Mellow Mushroom · Tears of Llorona · Ceritas · Weefarer · Tuckernuck · Middleton Made Knives

Editorial

Garden & Gun · The Wall Street Journal · The New York Times · Condé Nast · Condé Nast Traveler · Food & Wine · Architectural Digest

Recognition

James Beard Foundation nominee, visual storytelling · Stocksy United contributing photographer

The credential I care about most is the callback.

Contact

Let's see what
we do next.

If you are building something worth seeing, I would like to hear about it.

Write
andrew@andrewcebulka.com
Studio
Charleston, SC. Working nationally, by appointment.
Engagements
Project work. Retained advisory.

A life that is beautiful and true. Everything else is commentary.