Activate map
Yes |
Specialties
Schwabel Studio is the home base of award-winning photographer Eric Schwabel. We are a full-production studio, specializing in commercial portrait, fashion and editorial photography worldwide.
Schwabel’s work is often heralded for his creative and effective use of lighting, and in making models — who include celebrities, children, and executives (in addition to the standard gorgeous lot) — feel at ease, relaxed, and part of the creative process.
History
Established in 2006.
Seeing a need for more production in his studio work, photographer Eric Schwabel opened Schwabel Studio in Venice Beach in 2006. Our client list has grown, from our editorial photography roots, to include celebrity portraiture, advertisements and photographs for the Tony Awards, Toyota, Ritz-Carlton and Expedia.com, and corporate photography for businesses throughout Southern California and beyond.
Meet the Business Owner
Eric S.
Business Owner
Award-winning photographer Eric Schwabel has photographed celebrities such as Dane Cook, Chris Pine, Neil Patrick Harris, Adam Lambert, and Kirk Douglas. His work has appeared on over a dozen magazine covers. His coffee table book «Shooting Male» was published in Berlin in 2009. Commercial clients have included Expedia.com, Toyota, Ritz-Carlton, MTV, TiVo and more.
Schwabel is originally from Minnesota, but eventually landed in Venice, CA, where he lives today. He studied at the prestigious School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and SPEOS Paris Photographic Institute.
Schwabel is active in the Venice Art Walk, benefitting the Venice Family Clinic, and lends his time and photography to various non-profit organizations, focusing primarily on the LGBT community.
Schwabel is also the man behind «the Human Light Suit,» an annual photographic portrait project that takes place at the Burning Man festival — online at humanlightsuit.com.