Samujana.
Twenty-three villas,
one hillside.
An estate of twenty-three architect-designed houses where no two floorplans repeat — and where the photography has to make that obvious at a glance.
Each villa had to
look like itself.
Samujana sits on the headland above Choengmon: twenty-three individually designed villas sharing one hillside, one sea view and one architectural language, all of them the work of Gary Fell of GFAB Architects. The commercial problem is that shared context. Photographed carelessly, every villa becomes the same infinity pool over the same bay, and a guest choosing between them has nothing to choose on.
So the work is organised villa by villa rather than as one estate shoot. As the estate's preferred photographer we have covered most of the houses, each with its own treatment: the feature the architect actually built the house around, found and given the hero frame. A terrace on one. A deck at sunset on another. A yoga platform on a third.
It is not only stills. We also film for the estate, including the series of White Lotus videos made for Samujana, so the moving and the still coverage of a villa come out of the same visit and the same read of the house.
The estate-level frames still do their job: aerials that place the property on the headland and explain the drive from the airport in one image. They are just no longer the whole story.
Working on a hillside
ApproachOne villa, one identity
Before each house, a short walk-through to find the frame that could only be taken there. Everything else is built around that shot.
Light that moves down the slope
The hillside puts each villa into shade at a different hour. Villas were sequenced by aspect, not by number — high east-facing houses first, west terraces last.
Twilight as the closer
The twilight frame is the one that sells a villa at this level. Interior lights balanced against a sky still holding blue, shot in the fifteen minutes where both are true.
Aerials for context only
Drone used to answer where and how big, not to repeat what a ground frame already said better.
The estate
Selected framesSamujana 22
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- CoverageMost of the estate, villa by villa: exteriors, principal interiors, pool and terrace, plus detail frames.
- AerialsEstate and per-villa aerials, flown under CAAT and NBTC registration with the estate's permission.
- TwilightA dedicated twilight pass on the hero villas, scheduled separately from the daytime work.
- FilmVilla films alongside the stills, including the White Lotus series produced for the estate.
- FormatsFull-resolution landscape sets for the estate site and booking channels, plus vertical crops for social — cropped at the point of shooting, not afterwards.
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