About
A four-person studio with its own darkroom
Ines Halvard · Founder
Sable started in 2014 above a framing shop, with one camera and a borrowed enlarger. The brief has not really changed since: photograph things so they look like themselves, and finish the work ourselves rather than hand it to a lab.
We shoot mostly on film — not for the look, but because it forces a shot list and a decision at the moment of exposure. Everything is developed, scanned and graded in the building, which is why the frame you approve is the frame that ships.
We take on around twenty projects a year. That is a deliberate ceiling: the studio is four people, and the work is better when nobody is running two shoots at once.
- Founded
- 2014
- People
- Four
- Projects a year
- ~20
What we take on
Campaign
Full production from treatment to delivery — casting, location, crew, retouch. Usually two to six shoot days.
Product & still life
Studio work with our own set build. Single hero stills through to full range shoots of two hundred plus.
Interiors & architecture
Buildings photographed on their own light, across a full day where the brief allows it.
Print & editions
In-house scanning, grading and print production. We finish everything we shoot.
How it went
- 2014
Founded above a framing shop in Bethnal Green with one camera and a borrowed enlarger.
- 2017
Moved to the Bergen Works unit. Built the darkroom that is still the reason people book us.
- 2021
First survey show, Copenhagen. Began taking on interiors work alongside fashion.
- 2026
Four people, one studio, still developing everything on site.
Recognition
- 2026
D&AD Wood Pencil
Photography — Atelier Noir
- 2025
AOP Awards, Gold
Interiors — Concrete Hours
- 2024
Kraszna-Krausz shortlist
Held Air, edition of twelve
- 2023
Creative Review Annual
Selected work