Bureau is a creative content studio.
Photography, video, and social media for hospitality, architecture, retail, and real estate.
A quick note, since you got an email from me.
I started Bureau in 2012 with just myself and a single camera. Fourteen years later, we’ve built a talented roster of creators and strategists who make cinematic photography, video, podcasts, and social content for hotels, restaurants, developers, districts, and brands.
I run this studio, and I am on most of the shoots. If you hire us, you won't hear from me during the pitch and then meet a stranger on the day of the shoot. That is the whole reason the studio is structured the way it is.
If any of the work below resembles the problem you are trying to solve, book 20 minutes with me today.
Anthony Morrow
Founder, Bureau Detroit
(313) 399-6667 | anthony@bureaudetroit.com
Hotels, restaurants, and the rooms in between.
HOSPITALITY
We have spent the past decade shooting this city's hotels, dining rooms, bars, and clubs. Menus change, patios open, a new chef arrives, and the holiday package goes on sale in October, whether the photographs exist or not. We work off of that calendar instead of showing up once and leaving you a folder.
We also know how to work in a live venue. Service does not stop for us.
Developments, from the dig to the opening.
REAL ESTATE
Most development content gets commissioned at the end, six weeks before a lease-up deadline, when the story is already gone. Nobody filmed the site before the dig, and nobody talked to the architect while the drawings still meant something.
We work the whole arc: progress documentation during construction, principal and design interviews while the thinking is fresh, aerials at the moments that show change, and the finished film when the doors open. The cost per touchpoint is lower, and the finished piece is something a competitor with a crew and a deadline cannot replicate.
ARCHITECTURE & CONSTRUCTION
The buildings and the people who built them.
Most of this work starts the same way. The project is what matters. So we shoot it properly: exteriors, interiors, twilight, detail. The frames that end up in a leasing brochure, an award submission, or the next pitch.
When a project is still going up, we document it at intervals so you can capture a real record rather than whatever someone caught on a phone.
Storefronts and the
goods inside them.
RETAIL
We shoot product and store photography for retail brands: organic social, paid campaigns, lookbooks, seasonal launches, and whatever else runs throughout the year.
The approach is cinematic rather than catalog. Controlled light, real depth, styling that treats the product like it belongs somewhere instead of floating on white.
One day covers most of it. We shoot against the full list of where the images have to run, so a single session produces the hero frames, the vertical crops, the detail shots, and the clean-background versions the paid team will ask for later.
20 Minutes
If there is something on your calendar this quarter that needs to be photographed, filmed, or figured out, that is usually enough time to know whether we are the right studio for it.