NEXT DEPARTURE DATE IN 309 DAYS
ITALY - SEPTEMBER 2026
CREATIVITY HUB Escapes
International photography holidays · 2026 - 2027
Pack the camera.
The world is a set.
Five-night photographic journeys to the locations our regular events can't reach. Curated shoots. Hand-picked accommodation. Hidden venues released only to the three or four photographers who are coming with you.
ALL INCLUSIVE· FLIGHTS ARE YOUR ONLY EXTRA
4 photographers per Escape, capped
Since 2017· 9 years, 100+ Events delivered
EVENT ORGANISEr of the year 2025·winner
A different kind of photographic week
Where the regular events can't go.
Four photographers. One country. A week you'll be talking about for years.
A Creativity Hub Escape is built for photographers who want a portfolio piece worth flying for. Not a workshop tacked onto a holiday; a fully produced photographic journey, planned to the half-day, with locations only accessible because we know the people who own them.
Three to four photographers, one or two tutors, four to six locations across a single country. We sort the logistics: airport transfers, accommodation in places worth photographing in their own right, models and stylists pre-booked to brief, and a tightly run shooting schedule that leaves you free to make pictures.
The result, repeatedly, is the strongest single week of work most attendees produce in a year.
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Smaller groups. Three to four photographers, never twelve. More direct tutor time, more shooting time per setup.
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Group lives together. You'll share dinners, transfers and stories. The community is half the value.
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Total creative control. Direct the styling. Build the lighting. It's your shoot to run.
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Dawn and dusk are on the schedule. The light you can't get in a one-day event is built into the itinerary.
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Multi-day, multi-location. Four to six shoots across a country, not three setups in one venue.
Five things that don't apply to a UK day event.
How an Escape is different
UPCOMING ESCAPES
Where we're going
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21ST - 25TH September 2026 · 26TH - 30TH SEPTEMBER 2026 · 4 nights, 3 shooting days
Puglia, Italy
Whitewashed towns, baroque stone, sun-bleached coast
Trulli, masserie and olive-grove light at golden hour. Three days shooting fashion and dance against Puglia's whitewashed walls and warm stone, with models and dancers cast for each location. Long lunches, a dinner out under the stars, and three full days of making pictures.
Choose your departure.....
Your shoot, your way
You direct. We make it possible.
Some photographers want to be taught. Others have done this for twenty years and want to be left alone with the light. An Escape works for both because you decide, location by location, how much you want us in the room.
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Educators on your terms
Cameras, lenses, lights & accessories — in the photographer's hands all day.
Two educators on every trip. Lean on them for casting, direction and technical help or, if you know exactly what you're doing, send them to make themselves scarce. No egos, no fixed curriculum.
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Lighting, your way
Cameras, lenses, lights & accessories — in the photographer's hands all day.
A full kit of lights and modifiers travels with us — yours to build with. Shape it yourself, or work alongside a lighting educator to nail a setup you've never tried before.
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Full styling control
Cameras, lenses, lights & accessories — in the photographer's hands all day.
Wardrobe, hair and makeup are on hand for every shoot. Brief them to your vision, or hand over a moodboard and let them run. Models and dancers arrive ready to be directed by you.
A DAY ON THE escape
Sumptuously planned. Properly spent.
Our work doesn't look like a house style. It looks like the brand it was made for.
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Golden-hour start
An early transfer to the day's first location. Soft light, a styled model already in wardrobe, and three other photographers, never thirty. The light most people never get to shoot.
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Long breakfast
Back for a proper sit-down breakfast. Coffee, a look at the morning's frames, and a relaxed plan for the second setup with the educators if you want their eye.
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Location
A pre-scouted location, a private piazza courtyard, a hidden ghost town, a coastline. New wardrobe, new lighting brief, dancers brought in for movement work.
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Dinner together
Dinner as a group, cooked for you, or a night out somewhere special. With only four of you, by night two it feels less like a trip and more like old friends.
Naomi
Co-founder, Commercial & Creative
Naomi co-founded Creativity Hub in 2017 and leads on all corporate partnerships and strategic sponsorships. She works with leading photography brands to bring the best kit into the room, giving photographers direct, hands-on access to the tools that shape their work on the day.
She loves working in high-pressure creative environments and uses that experience to shape events where photographers can produce stronger, more ambitious work.
Anthony
Co-founder, Operations & Studio Fashion
Anthony (Ant to everyone) co-founded Creativity Hub alongside Naomi. He runs operations on every event: venue logistics, set build, lighting kit, schedule, catering. If something goes right on an event day, Ant arranged it three months earlier. If something goes wrong, he's already fixing it.
On the floor, Ant teaches the location-fashion sessions and the glossy-magazine clean-light setups that anchor every location and international event.
Katie
Casting Director
Katie heads the casting director's office, the longer-arc work of finding new models, performers, dancers, period specialists, and stunt-trained subjects to keep the casting roster fresh. Often seen running around backstage with a clipboard, she's equal parts talent scout and movement expert and she knows exactly when someone has “it”, and how to get them in the room!
If you're a working model, performer, or specialist looking to work with the Hub, Katie is who you talk to. The casting database is open to new applicants twice a year.
Jason
Lead Educator, Content
Jason is the technical brain behind the lighting setups, studio systems, and digital backbone of the Hub. From cinematic portrait lighting to high-end commercial setups, he teaches photographers how to shape light with confidence while somehow making the technical feel creative, simple, and genuinely fun.
When he’s not leading lighting education, Jason is usually behind the scenes building, fixing, upgrading, or reinventing the Creativity Hub digital world, from the website and event systems to the little innovations nobody notices until they stop working. Part photographer, part educator, part full-time tech fixer, he’s the reason both the lights and the website stay on.
ESCAPE LEADERS
The few we send
further afield.
Not included
International flights
You book your own. We send a recommended schedule with an arrival window.
Travel insurance
Mandatory. We can recommend a specialist photography-equipment insurer.
Personal camera equipment
You bring the camera and lenses. We provide all lighting and modifiers.
Visa fees, where applicable
Puglia and the South of France are visa-free for UK and most EU passport holders.
Anything truly personal
Souvenirs, that extra bottle, a spa afternoon on your free time, on you.
Accommodation throughout
Hand-picked, on-brand venues worth photographing in their own right, never airport hotels.
All food & drink
Breakfasts, cooked meals, daily lunches and dinners, plus a special meal out. Drinks included.
All locations
Private estates, courtyards and coast, pre-scouted and pre-arranged.
Full lighting kit
Lights and modifiers travel with the trip. Bring your camera; we bring the rest.
All ground transport
Airport transfers and location-to-location travel throughout the trip.
Two educators
Covering lighting and technical, posing and direction, available on every shoot, on your terms.
The Economics
What's included.
And what isn't.
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For Escapes you can't yet book
Tell us where you'd shoot.
With only four places per departure, the people on our preferences list see new Escapes a month before anyone else, and get first refusal on places.
✓ 14 days' early access to every new Escape and its dates
✓ First refusal on places before a trip goes public
✓ A group of four already? We can build a private Escape just for you
direct contact
Naomi - Commercial and Partnerships
