Photo & film, Mexico City and Paris

Basanto Studio

A portfolio in English and Spanish, and an admin space simple enough for the three partners to publish their new projects themselves, wherever they are shooting.

Industry: Creative photo & film studio
Type: Website
Year: 2026

Full-screen Basanto Studio homepage: a film frame shot at the Trocadéro in Paris, overlaid with the line « Every image starts with an intention »

Basanto Studio shoots the photo and film campaigns of fashion, sport and hospitality brands, between Mexico City and Paris. Their portfolio lived on Instagram, while the people they sell to are art directors signing off five-figure campaigns. Site designed and built in English and Spanish, with an admin space shaped after the way the studio files its own deliveries. The three partners add a project, its photos and its films themselves, from any time zone, without going back through a developer.

Achievements

01Site design and documented design system

02Custom development in Next.js 16 and TypeScript

03Site in English and Spanish, fully translated

04Content architecture and Sanity CMS shaped after the studio's delivery folders

05Custom video player: films play without YouTube's interface

06Photographs shown at their original proportions, never auto-cropped

07Three-step contact form, with budget and file attachments

08GSAP animations and Lenis smooth scroll

09WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, verified in production

10CMS guide for the three partners

11Go-live, domain connection and handover