What if, just for a moment, you became the lead character in your own film?
At Studiorama, every session is designed to be a real film set. Choose your storyline, your aesthetic, your atmosphere. Let the camera do the rest.
Thriller
What if you became Bond. James Bond? A gun, a vintage tape recorder, a hat, soft lighting… And there you have it!
Romantic comedy
A bouquet of flowers, a beret, a candlelit dinner… Let yourself be swept away by a tender, poetic atmosphere – a true immersion in the world of *Emily in Paris* or *Amélie*.
Nouvelle Vague
Rediscover the carefree Paris of the 1960s, inspired by the charming Anna Karina and the charismatic Jean-Paul Belmondo… What could be better than a transistor radio, a Rolleiflex, a pipe or a record player to relive the Paris of *À bout de souffle*?
Musical
Colourful umbrellas, musical instruments… Step into an atmosphere inspired by the iconic scenes from *An American in Paris* or *La La Land*.
Carte blanche
Why not take it a step further? Imagine your characters, choosing from our costumes or bringing your own. Create your own scene, using our costumes, our props or your own!
At Studiorama, every session becomes a story to tell and a story to act out, then a photo to keep!
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For the past twenty years or so, I’ve been working as a screenwriter and director. More recently, I’ve thrown myself enthusiastically into photography. The idea for Studiorama came to me as a natural combination of these three passions: creating a unique, one-of-a-kind space where I can ‘make my own cinema’ every day, switching from 24 frames per second to a single frame.
Essentially, the process of staging remains the same. You have to find a setting, a direction, lighting and a performance. It’s just that, in front of the lens, they’re no longer actors, but strangers. I invite them to act, to pose, to step into a scene. And when they forget the camera’s there, I capture the shot.
The idea is simple: to rediscover the pleasure of old-school genre cinema. Not out of nostalgia, but for the love of acting, set design and fiction. To create images that resemble film shots, then transform them into photographs. Like those promotional photos you used to find in cinema lobbies, right up until the 1980s.
Studiorama’s signature setting the rooftops of Paris encapsulates this desire. It’s a cinematic Paris: a little dreamlike, a little stylised, deliberately more romantic than realistic. A Paris of zinc-topped bars, chimneys, the sky, unlikely encounters, gunshots and departures set to song.
I wanted to create a place where anyone could step into a scene that looks as though it’s straight out of a film, without needing to be an actor. A place where you can come alone, as a couple, with family or with friends. Together, you choose your film genre, your character, your props, and sometimes a soundtrack or a short script. It’s a return to childhood, but on a film set.
The experience doesn’t end with the photo shoot. The image is designed to be printed, displayed, given as a gift or kept as a memento.
A photo that isn’t simply left to gather dust on a mobile phone. No artificial intelligence, no digital effects: just a set, some lighting, a camera, and the age-old pleasure of telling a story.
Studiorama was born out of this simple desire: to rediscover a taste for fiction through photography. To ensure that a photo shoot isn’t a nerve-wracking experience, but a memory in its own right. A mini film shoot like a bubble of champagne, with no lines to learn, just a set, lighting and direction. To live out, for the duration of a session, your own little cinema scene and leave with a still from the film.
Nicolas Castro
