Sara Schmidle is a director and photographer who makes images of people and brands at their most unguarded.

Her work runs on one belief: that luxury is calm, not loud, and presence is strongest when no one's performing. Across fashion, beauty, and lifestyle, she builds campaigns that feel less like advertising and more like film stills from a world you'd want to step into.

Sara directs and shoots both stills and motion as a single vision — concept to final frame. She works lean and travels light: a small crew, real environments, coastal to urban, delivering campaign-grade photography and cinematic film without the scale of a traditional production.

New York and beyond

sara@240collective.com

Select Clients & Individuals

Swarovski

Explora Journeys

NFL

NHL

MLB

Fit With Cambrie

Koia

Ready 24

IDEL

Donald Ross Sportswear