Best Photography Studios in Montreal (2026)

Introduction

Montreal has a busy commercial photography scene, and the 8 studios below cover most of what brands and agencies here commission: campaign production, fashion and e-commerce, food and packaging, and product work for online shops. Each one has a working studio or production base in the city in 2026.

The work follows the city’s client base. Grocery, food and drink brands such as Metro, Saputo, Lassonde and the SAQ commission a steady stream of packaging and recipe photography, and the Chabanel garment district north of Mile-Ex still hosts studios that shoot apparel for Quebec fashion labels. Most shoots are delivered in French and English versions, and Quebec’s French-language rules, tightened by Bill 96 with stricter commercial advertising requirements from June 2025, affect how campaign imagery is captioned and adapted. Agencies such as lg2, Cossette and Sid Lee hire local studios for much of their stills production.

The list mixes full production houses with smaller studios that specialise in one kind of shoot. Firms were chosen for their studio facilities, client rosters and recent work, and every one was checked against its own site or a trade listing. The list is unranked.

The best photography studios in Montreal

1. Shoot Studio

Independent · La Petite-Patrie · shootstudio.ca

Shoot Studio describes itself as one of the largest photo and video production houses in Quebec. Three photographers founded it, and its space on Saint-Hubert holds a corner cyclorama studio with a client area, a daylight studio with large windows, and a tabletop and food studio beside a full kitchen, plus a roof terrace for daylight shots. Its roster has included Martin Girard, Jean-François Gratton, Pierre Manning and Sandrine Castellan.

The studio handles budgeting, production and delivery as well as the shoot itself, in the studio or on location. Past credits include work art-directed by Cossette and the Ville de Montréal, and Applied Arts’ 2026 photography gallery credits Shoot Studio on Vladim Vilain’s series for Galactic Playground.

2. L’Éloi

Independent · Mile End · leloi.ca

L’Éloi is a production company and artists’ agency founded by Éloi Beauchamp in 2000. It represents photographers, directors and motion studios, and produces stills and live action for brands. Its photographer LM Chabot shot lifestyle and travel series for Tourisme Montréal with lg2, which L’Éloi produced and which won in the photography category at the Applied Arts awards in 2024.

Projects on its site include work for Nespresso, Dr. Martens x SSENSE, Lacoste, Nike, The North Face and Cirque du Soleil. L’Éloi also runs Espace L’Éloi, a venue of more than 10,000 square feet on Hutchison with two blackout-capable studios and a hair and make-up room, so larger shoots can be produced in-house.

3. Studio Blanc

Independent · Chabanel · studioblancmtl.com

Studio Blanc is an e-commerce and commercial photography studio on avenue du Parc, focused on apparel, fashion, accessories and cosmetics. Services cover flatlay, still life, ghost mannequin and on-model shoots, plus social and branded content, and it has added an AI on-model service alongside its studio work.

Clients shown on its site include Lolë, Guess, Moose Knuckles, Bench, Samuelsohn and Cirque du Soleil. It suits brands that need consistent catalogue imagery at volume across a season.

4. 2Frames

Independent · Chabanel · 2frames.ca

2Frames is a photography and video studio on rue Chabanel that works with brands, businesses and agencies. It shoots product, fashion, food, industrial and portrait work, including corporate headshots, in its own equipped studio or on location.

The studio handles pre-production in-house, including concepts, moodboards, scheduling and locations, then edits for web, campaign and social use. Clients on its site include TELUS Health, Gairdner and Simard.

5. Uno Studio

Independent · Montreal · unostudio.ca

Uno Studio is the food, beverage and packaged-goods studio of photographer David De Stefano, known for natural light and close attention to texture. It also produces motion work for the same categories.

Its client list runs long and is mostly Quebec food and drink: Agropur, Lassonde, Metro, Saputo, SAQ, St-Hubert, Première Moisson and Dairy Farmers of Canada, along with agencies including lg2, Sid Lee, Cossette, Rethink and Taxi.

6. Studio Kay

Independent · Sud-Ouest · studiokay.ca

Studio Kay is a creative production company offering commercial, culinary and product photography alongside video and 2D and 3D animation. It works across beauty, health, food, education and industrial clients, with art direction and campaign production available.

Featured clients include Clarins, CeraVe, BIC Inkbox and Savoura, and testimonials on its site come from Radio-Canada, OpenTable and Cook it. It suits brands that want stills and motion from one team.

7. Impression Photography

Independent · Saint-Henri · impressionphotography.ca

Impression Photography is a product studio in Saint-Henri built around e-commerce. It shoots white-background marketplace images, jewellery macro work, apparel on-model, ghost mannequin and flat-lay, food, and styled lifestyle sets, and offers 360-degree spins and short 4K product videos.

The studio quotes a 24-hour turnaround once products arrive, with two rounds of retouching per image, and can upload approved files directly to Shopify, Amazon Seller Central and other platforms. It suits direct-to-consumer brands with large catalogues.

8. Studio A-Chromatique

Independent · Montreal · studioachromatique.com

Studio A-Chromatique is a product photography studio serving the Greater Montreal area, with more than seven years in business. Its work splits between e-commerce images and creative, styled product photography, with retouching and stop-motion product video also on offer.

It is one of the few studios here that publishes pricing: e-commerce images start at $20 each and creative images at $35, with standard turnaround of ten business days. That makes it a practical option for smaller brands planning a first catalogue shoot.

What to look for in a Montreal photography studio

Start with the kind of shoot. Campaign work for an agency needs a production house that can cast, scout, budget and run a crew, which is what Shoot Studio and L’Éloi do. Catalogue and marketplace work is a volume job, and studios such as Studio Blanc and Impression Photography have built their process around consistent lighting and fast turnaround.

Check the studio itself. A cyclorama, a daylight room and a working kitchen suit very different briefs, and food photography in particular depends on kitchen access close to the set. If your brief needs a space the studio does not have, ask whether it will rent one and who manages the booking.

Plan for both languages early. Most Montreal campaigns run in French and English, and Quebec’s Charter of the French Language sets rules on how French appears in commercial advertising. Images with text, packaging or signage in frame may need two versions, so agree the shot list and any localised variants before the shoot day.

Finally, agree how selects and retouching rounds will work. A product shoot can produce thousands of RAW files, and confusion over which frames were approved costs more time than the shoot itself. Studios that deliver through one shared gallery, with feedback attached to specific images, keep the retouching round short.

How Fabric helps photography studio teams

Fabric gives a studio one workspace for RAW libraries, selects, client feedback and shoot notes. Large image sets sit in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams files on demand so they take no local disk space, and photographers can open heavy files from any machine. The setup for photographers is built around this kind of archive.

Finding a past frame is faster with search, which works by meaning across images and documents, and with colour search for matching a brand palette. When a client asks for “something like last spring’s shoot”, similar search surfaces images with related composition, colour and subject.

For review, share a gallery folder with the client as a commenter. Shared links work without sign-up, and with annotations the client can draw on an image and attach a comment to the drawing, or leave timestamped comments on video. The studio marks each comment completed as retouching goes through, so the round works like a checklist. There is more on this in letting clients pick their favourite photos.

Final delivery can go out as a published page, which is view-only with optional download, protected with a password. Link analytics shows when each named recipient opened it. On Team plans, self-writing docs keep a page for each client covering decisions, deliverables and open items.

Password protection and link analytics are included on Pro and Team plans, and self-writing docs on Team plans. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best photography studio in Montreal?

It depends on the shoot. For full campaign production, Shoot Studio and L’Éloi run crews, casting and locations. For food and packaging, Uno Studio has worked with many of Quebec’s largest grocery brands, and for fashion e-commerce, Studio Blanc shoots for Lolë, Guess and Moose Knuckles.

How much does product photography cost in Montreal?

Prices vary by studio and brief. Studio A-Chromatique publishes rates from $20 per e-commerce image and $35 per creative image, with typical projects from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Campaign production with models, styling and locations is quoted per project.

Do Montreal photography studios work in English?

Yes. The studios on this list work in French and English, and most deliver campaign imagery for bilingual use. Ask early whether any images need French and English variants for packaging or in-frame text.

Can a Montreal studio shoot both stills and video?

Several can. 2Frames, Studio Kay and Shoot Studio all produce video alongside photography, and L’Éloi represents directors as well as photographers. For larger moving-image work, see the best video production companies in Montreal.

How should clients review photo selects?

Agree one shared gallery and one round of comments per stage. Clients mark the frames they want and note retouching changes on each image, and the studio confirms each change as it is done. This keeps feedback in one place instead of spread across email threads.

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