Match Production
The nine of us
Six people behind the camera, one who makes shoot day run on time, one who makes sure nobody hates how they look, and one who works out how we do all of it in cities we don't live in. Our studio is at 545 8th Ave in Midtown, two blocks from Penn Station, close enough that people walk over on a lunch break. We also come to your office anywhere in New York, and we shoot live-directed remote sessions across Europe, the US and Asia.
Studio & Office
NYC session coverage
Remote Direction
Distributed team sessions
Production
Scheduling and galleries
Shared Standards
Lighting and retouching
Who runs the studio
Three people you will actually deal with: the person who sets the look, the person who grows the thing, and the person who runs your day.
Alex Karnyukhin
Founder, Art Director & Head of Photography
Alex founded the studio, leads its photographers and personally shoots his scheduled sessions. His lighting and retouching standards keep Midtown studio and office portraits consistent.
He has shot over 30 covers for Forbes, Inc., Esquire, GQ, Men's Health and many other magazines worldwide, plus advertising campaigns for Reebok, Puma, Adidas and many other global brands.
Dmitry Rollins
Chief Development Officer
Dmitry coordinates projects outside New York across locations, studios, and crews, using shared lighting, crop, and retouching standards. He also co-founded CLOS and helps plan remote and multi-location programs.
Irina Chistikina
Lead Producer
Irina coordinates every project we run: the room, the schedule, the sign-up sheet, the order your people move through in the time you actually have, and the gallery afterwards. If the day runs smoothly, that was her. She is also who your quote comes from, so she is the one to email.
The photographers
Each of them owns a lane. Whoever fits your shoot is the one who shows up, and all of them shoot to the same spec.
Victoria
Lead Photographer · Executive & LinkedIn
Victoria shoots our executive and LinkedIn work: founders, C-suites, and the partner who needs to look approachable on a bio page by Friday. If your CEO is in the chair, she is usually the one behind the camera. Most people arrive a little stiff. That part is normal, and it is most of what she is directing for.
Ann
Lead Photographer · Personal Branding
Ann shoots personal branding: the founders and consultants who need a whole set of images for a website, a deck and months of posting, not one headshot they will be bored of by March. Her sessions run longer, with more looks, because that is what a set actually takes.
Roman
Lead Photographer · Conferences & Events
Roman shoots conferences and events: badge photos, speaker portraits, and headshot booths that have to move a room full of people before the next session starts. He describes his own work as commercial and documentary, which is why his event portraits look like people rather than like a queue.
Hair and makeup, in-house
Hair and makeup can be arranged as part of the session scope. Anna knows the lighting used for the portraits and works on set when included.
Anna Cherchen
Lead Makeup & Hair Artist
Anna Cherchen provides makeup, hair, and grooming for the agreed portrait brief when hair and makeup is included in the session scope.
Outside the studio she works across beauty, fashion and commercial production. Her credits include projects for Bulgari, Reebok, KFC, plus editorial work for Vogue, Forbes, Tatler, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Elle Girl and The Hollywood Reporter. She is available for studio sessions and on-location shoots, and she is worth adding when the photos are going somewhere permanent.
When your people are not in New York
Two photographers, two halves of the clock. Same direction, same spec, no one shooting at 3am.
Elina
Remote Photographer · Europe & US Coverage
Elina directs remote sessions across Europe and the United States. A real photographer guides the light, camera height, posture, and expression live while the participant uses a phone for capture.
Sofia
Remote Photographer · Asia-Pacific & Rest of World
Sofia covers Asia-Pacific and the time zones outside Elina's map. Same live direction, same spec, at an hour that is not the middle of the night for your staff, which they will notice and mention.
How nine people produce one look
This is not a bench of freelancers we go and find after you sign. It is one spec, one schedule and one retouching pipeline.
One spec, set in advance
Lighting, background, crop and retouching level are agreed before anyone sits down. So the CFO photographed in March matches the CFO photographed in September, and nobody has to explain why.
One person art-directs it
Alex sets the spec and every photographer here shoots to it, whether in the studio, at your office, or over video. That is what makes a set look like a set.
One retouching pipeline
Files from every city go through the same hands. You get one brief, one look, one person to email and one invoice, whether your person sits in New York, Lisbon or Singapore.
Want a quote?
Email Irina, or call if a conversation is faster. For standard Team packages, retouched finals are delivered 24 to 48 hours after selections are submitted. Larger or custom programs follow the schedule, editing scope, and delivery terms in the proposal.
Talk to a person
hello@match-production.com
(347) 797-0185
Come to the studio
545 8th Ave, Midtown Manhattan, two blocks from Penn Station. We also shoot on-site at your office anywhere in New York, and remotely anywhere else.
See the work