AERA
Media Studio — Leeds & Yorkshire

Small studio. Undivided attention.

Professional standard, student prices, and only a handful of projects on at any one time. That last part is the one people notice.

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What we do

A studio for whatever you need shot.

Social media content — style reference Brand & commercial — style reference Event coverage — style reference Portrait — style reference Film & reels — style reference Wedding photography — style reference
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Selected work

A look at the frame.

This is Jack's own work, not a stock library — the actual portfolio that convinced him to start Aera in the first place. Client galleries will replace it bit by bit; for now, this is genuinely what you'd be booking.

Campaign design — style reference
Social

Reel Series

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Portrait photography — style reference
Portrait

Golden Hour

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Event coverage — style reference
Event

Launch Night

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Social content design — style reference
Brand

Studio Set

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Wedding photography — editorial style reference
Wedding

The Vows Film

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Clients

Brands who said yes before we had a website.

Turns out the work speaks louder than the domain name did.

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The studio

How Aera began.

2024Before Aera
The start

A camera and a curiosity

It began as a habit, not a business — shooting friends, cars and nights out around Leeds, learning the frame by getting it wrong a few hundred times.

Early portrait work
2025First paid work
First clients

People started asking

Events, motorsport and nights that needed covering properly. The first invoices, the first deadlines — and the realisation this could be more than a hobby.

Early event coverage
2025Beyond the lens
Design

Not just the photo

Brands wanted the whole thing — posters, campaign design, a feed that looked considered. Photography became one part of a bigger craft.

Campaign design work
2026Aera is named
The studio

A name for the standard

Aera was built around one belief: great media shouldn't be reserved for brands with agency budgets. A studio identity, a way of working, a bar to clear.

Aera brand and social work
Sept 2026Where we are
Now

Leeds, and further out

Founder-led from Leeds, working across Yorkshire with friends joining from further afield. Still small, still personal — and only getting sharper.

Aera studio work
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The method

Jack & the Aera standard.

Jack Careem, founder of Aera, shooting on set

Aera didn't start with a business plan. It started with a camera, a lot of frames that missed, and a stubborn belief that good media shouldn't be reserved for the brands that can afford an agency.

"Be there early, stay calm, and shoot the thing as it actually happened."

The method is simple to say and hard to do. No stage-managing a room. No disappearing for an hour of set-up shots. If the day felt a certain way, the gallery should feel that way too.

Everything after that is craft: grading with one consistent eye, cutting for the feed as carefully as for the frame, and giving a small booking the same seriousness as a large one.

"I want Aera to be the studio I'd have wanted to hire at eighteen. Quick to reply, calm on the day, honest about what it costs, and quietly better than it needs to be."

Founder, Aera
The motto

Turn up early.
Get it right.
Don't be weird about it.

The overhead is a laptop, a hard drive, and a mild caffeine dependency. What that buys you isn't only a smaller invoice — it's someone who has time to sit with your edit until it's actually right.

Questions

Good to know before you email us.

Yes — honestly, it's where most of the actual bookings come from right now. Small brands who want a feed that doesn't look like it was posted by whoever was free that day.

Leeds and all of Yorkshire without blinking. Further afield's fine too — we might just ask you to cover a train ticket.

Properly, September 2026. Unofficially, we've been taking bookings the whole time — the "launch" is mostly us tidying up and getting a website that matches the ambition.

Yes, and it's the newest thing on offer, which we're not going to pretend otherwise about — priced from £950 for photography and film together. See the full wedding page and get in touch to check your date.

No studio rent, no account managers, no one taking a cut before the person holding the camera sees a penny. Being this small also means we're taking on a handful of projects at a time rather than forty, so yours gets properly sat with instead of squeezed between two others. The low price and the attention come from the same place.

Find your fit

Tell Aera what you need.

Describe your project in a line — a wedding, an event, your brand’s socials — and Aera points you to the right service, real work, and honest pricing. No sales pitch waiting on the other end.

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