Photography, video and social content for restaurants, bars, hotels and hospitality brands.
Cubos × U1 Media
Why it matters
Your guests decide on their phone before they decide on a table.
Before anyone books, they look you up. Your Instagram, your website and your Google listing are the first taste of the room, the menu and the night. If what they find is tired, generic or a season out of date, it costs you covers.
We make content that does the selling for you: the room in its best light, plates as they leave the pass, your people mid-service.
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What we cover
Everything your venue needs to sell.
IThe RoomInteriors, terraces and the bar, shot in your own light.
IIThe MenuSignature dishes and new seasonal plates.
IIIThe BarCocktails, wine service and the people who pour them.
IVThe PeopleChefs, owners and floor staff.
VThe NightsLaunches, private events and corporate functions.
VIProduct and BrandStyled campaigns for drinks, food and lifestyle brands.
VIIIn MotionShort-form video for Reels, TikTok and your website.
No flash, no rearranging your floor. The room exactly as a guest walks into it, so the photos sell the experience they will actually get.
Burnt Ends × Margaret
I · The Room
Every corner worth booking.
Banquettes, bar tops, terraces and private rooms, including the spaces you want to sell more of.
Bar Allora
6 Head Circular Quay
Bar Vespertine
Bar Julius
Watermans Barangaroo
Riva & Ripples, Rose Bay
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II · The Menu
Photographed at service, not staged after.
Your kitchen sends the dish as it goes to a table. We shoot it on your surfaces, in your light.
Mr Wong's
Ashe
Civico 47
Bar Allora
Bar Julius
Mumu
Bar Allora
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II · The Menu
New menu. New season. New reason to book.
Fresh plates give your followers a reason to come back, not just scroll past.
Meat Wine Co, Circular Quay
Riva & Ripples, Rose Bay
Bar Allora
Share Plates
Oysters
Every dish, on its best night.
Menu launches, specials and seasonal changes, shot so they land while they are still on the menu.
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III · The Bar
The pour, the glass and the hands behind it.
Cocktail lists, wine service and the bartenders who make them. The content that turns dinner into a night out.
Curtains Jazz Club
Forum Double Bay
Meat Wine Co, Circular Quay
Ashe
Forum Double Bay
Riva & Ripples, Rose Bay
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IV · The People
The part most venue content misses.
Rooms and plates prove you are good. Faces are what people follow, share and come back for. Shot during service, not posed after it.
Ashe
Ashe
Grappa The Rocks
Bar Allora
Bar Allora
Bar Allora
Manzo
Bar Allora
Chefs, owners and collaborations.
From the oven at PST to the Burnt Ends × Margaret collaboration. The stories behind the room.
Mumu
PST
Long Lunch
Burnt Ends × Margaret
Burnt Ends × Margaret
Burnt Ends × Margaret
Chef collaboration, captured from the pass.
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V · The Nights
Launches, activations and private events.
Events are often a venue's fastest revenue line and the hardest to sell from a floor plan. Strong event imagery sells the next booking.
Forum Double Bay
Humble Brags Founders Club
Libertine
Libertine
DX1 at Grill Americano
DX1 at Grill Americano
Corporate functions, covered properly.
Arrivals, the room set, service and the people who came. Everything your events team needs to sell the space again.
Endeavour Group
Endeavour Group
Endeavour Group
Endeavour Group
Endeavour Group
Endeavour Group
Endeavour Group
Conferences and team experiences.
Multi-day conferences, team-building activations and experiential events.
HR Connect Sydney
HR Connect Sydney
Pasta Emilia
HR Connect Sydney
HR Connect Sydney
Pasta Emilia
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VI · Product and Brand
Campaigns for drinks and product brands.
Styled product work for launches, menus, retail and social. This series was shot for Cubos cocktail cubes.
Cubos
Cubos
Cubos
Cubos
Cubos
Cubos
Cubos
Lifestyle and editorial.
Brand portraits and lifestyle campaigns, shot on location across Sydney.
Momentum
Momentum
Forum Double Bay
Momentum
Mumu
On location. Styled to sell.
Founder portraits, lookbooks and campaign imagery for brands that live in the same world as your guests.
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VII · In Motion
Stills sell the room. Motion sells the night.
Short-form video shot, cut and captioned in-house, formatted for Reels, TikTok and your website.
Booked alongside a stills shoot, one visit covers both, so you are not paying for two crews.
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VIII · The Results
Looking good is the start. It has to perform.
Every post is planned with a strategy behind it, not just a nice photo. These numbers come from six posts we created for @unobtanium_au.
A series, not a one-offSydney After Dark, Sydney's Best Bites and The Hospitality Series. Formats people recognise and come back for.
A hook in the first line"Dinner was lovely. Now what?" Every post earns the next swipe before it asks for anything.
Made to be saved and sharedSaves and shares are the clearest sign a post is doing more than collecting likes.
Reaching new guestsOn one post, 89.4% of views came from people who did not already follow the account.
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Source: Instagram Insights, June 2026. Views, saves and shares totalled across six posts. New followers totalled across the five posts that report follows.
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VIII · The Results
The proof, straight from Insights.
Instagram Insights screenshots from @unobtanium_au. Content made to stop the scroll, get saved and get people through the door.
Sydney After Dark0 views · 0 saves
New address. Same hands.0 views · 0 likes
Restaurant Hubert Reel0 views · 0 follows
Private Dining Rooms0 views · 0 saves
Sydney's Best Bites0 views · 0 shares
The Hospitality Series0 views · 0 profile visits
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How it works
Simple to book. Easy on service.
IA short briefTell us what you need to sell this season: a new menu, the function space, a launch, the weekday lunch. We build the shot list around it.
IIOne visit, stills and videoWe shoot during trade so the room looks alive, working around service rather than stopping it.
IIIEdited and delivered to your galleryGraded, retouched and cropped for feed, stories, website and press. One private link your managers, marketing and PR can all pull from.
IVA feed that stays freshBook a single shoot or a regular monthly visit, so new content keeps landing as the menu and the seasons change.
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Why venues work with us
Behind the lens.
U1 Media is led by Creative Director Jacqui Wieser, with sixteen years across photography, design and digital marketing.
Built for hospitalityWe know how a service runs, where to stand and when to step back.
Stills and motion, one teamOne booking, one brief, one consistent look across photo and video.
Made for the feedVertical crops and reel-ready cuts, not just a folder of landscape files.
One look across every venueSame eye, same grade. A group reads as a group, not separate accounts.
Part of UnobtaniumA Unobtanium studio, connected to Sydney's hospitality scene.
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Let's shoot your room.
Tell us your venue and what you want to sell next. We will come back with a shoot plan and a quote, and we are happy to walk the room with you first.
