Devotion: A Love Story
October 6–8, 2025 | Charleston, South Carolina
Where emotional storytelling becomes fine art.
This is the love story you've always wanted to tell.
Devotion is our inaugural editorial residency—designed for image-makers who move at the intersection of fashion, story, and emotion. Here, cinematic love stories are crafted with couture styling, handpicked talent, and immersive sets that feel like film. This is not a styled shoot. It’s a full-scale production where your vision leads.
The Experience
Your story, built to last.
Before you step on set, you’ll collaborate with our creative team to shape a narrative arc that's distinctly yours. You’ll select from a curated menu of wardrobe, locations, and talent, then refine your vision into a cinematic editorial.
Across three production days, you’ll capture that story across multiple scenes—styled with couture fashion, designed for emotional impact, and executed with full-scale production support. No posing templates. No recycled ideas. Just intentional, legacy-building work executed at the highest level.
At CINÉ, no two editorials are the same—because no two artists are.
You'll walk away with:
- A fully authored editorial: curated, cast, and directed by your team
- Unmatched production value across custom-built scenes with couture styling and agency talent
- Peer collaboration with top-tier artists and headline creatives working in parallel
- Career-defining imagery positioned for publication and legacy
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* Limited spaces available *
Your Creative Cohort
Collaborate with a world-class team whose work has graced the pages of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Lane. Each residency features headline talent—celebrated stylists, directors, and photographers—creating work alongside you, not above you. They bring vision, elevate the room, and offer insight in motion—not lectures from a podium.
You’ll work in proximity to brilliance, observing how top artists shape image, direct movement, and craft narrative at the highest level. This is rare access, collaborative energy, and collective momentum.
Sophie Kaye is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer celebrated for her romantic, cinematic approach to visual storytelling. With work featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Martha Stewart Weddings, she brings a painterly sensibility and timeless elegance to every frame.
At Devotion, you’ll have the rare opportunity to work alongside Sophie as she directs her own editorial—offering a front-row seat to her mastery of light, movement, and composition. This is not just a lesson in photography—it’s a window into how iconic imagery is made.
Vogue • Harper’s Bazaar • Elle Magazine
As seen in:
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER
Sophie Kaye
Anna Lord is a destination filmmaker for the nostalgic. She is a Colorado based visual artist who is passionate about narrating the quiet moments through a visceral experience. She strives to capture organic emotions & the beauty that surrounds her subjects.
Following the years she spent in university to get her degree in Fine Art & French, she traveled, worked, and lived in many cities in the United States & Europe — both of which greatly influenced her work.
Anna has been working as a visual artist for the past 15 years in both the wedding and fashion/commercial sector. Her work has been featured in Elle, The New York Times, Brides, Over the Moon, & more.
DESTINATION FILMMAKER
Anna Lord
Kacey Gustafson is the founder of CINÉ Creative House. She began her career in New York City’s fashion industry, working behind the scenes on major editorial and campaign productions across print, commercial, and red carpet. Her fashion styling credits include assisting on celebrated covers and features for Elle, Vogue, and Avenue Magazine—including Elle’s 30th Anniversary tribute, and productions featuring Dua Lipa, Nicky Hilton, Jessica Alba, and Caitlyn Jenner.
Now based in Charleston, she leads CINÉ’s creative direction—bringing together fine art, fashion, and storytelling through editorial and residency work.
Creative Director
Kacey Gustafson
Madeline is a seasoned freelance artist based in NYC. She brings nearly a decade of experience across bridal, celebrity, commercial, and editorial work. She’s trained under industry icons like Cassandra Garcia and Troy Surratt, and began her career in theater, later studying makeup artistry at Emerson College with a recommendation from Bobbi Brown.
HAIR & MAKEUP ARTIST
Madeline Eleanor
Vogue • Forbes • Sephora • Style Me Pretty
As seen in:
Sophie Kaye is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer celebrated for her romantic, cinematic approach to visual storytelling. With work featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Martha Stewart Weddings, she brings a painterly sensibility and timeless elegance to every frame.
At Devotion, you’ll have the rare opportunity to work alongside Sophie as she directs her own editorial—offering a front-row seat to her mastery of light, movement, and composition. This is not just a lesson in photography—it’s a window into how iconic imagery is made.
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER
AS SEEN IN:
Vogue • Harper’s Bazaar • Elle Magazine
Anna Lord is a destination filmmaker for the nostalgic. She is a Colorado based visual artist who is passionate about narrating the quiet moments through a visceral experience. She strives to capture organic emotions & the beauty that surrounds her subjects.
Following the years she spent in university to get her degree in Fine Art & French, she traveled, worked, and lived in many cities in the United States & Europe — both of which greatly influenced her work.
Anna has been working as a visual artist for the past 15 years in both the wedding and fashion/commercial sector. Her work has been featured in Elle, The New York Times, Brides, Over the Moon, & more.
DESTINATION FILMMAKER
Kacey Gustafson is the founder of CINÉ Creative House. She began her career in New York City’s fashion industry, working behind the scenes on major editorial and campaign productions across print, commercial, and red carpet. Her fashion styling credits include assisting on celebrated covers and features for Elle, Vogue, and Avenue Magazine—including Elle’s 30th Anniversary tribute, and productions featuring Dua Lipa, Nicky Hilton, Jessica Alba and Caitlyn Jenner.
Now based in Charleston, she leads CINÉ’s creative direction—bringing together fine art, fashion, and storytelling through editorial and residency work.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Madeline is a seasoned freelance artist based in NYC. She brings nearly a decade of experience across bridal, celebrity, commercial, and editorial work. She’s trained under industry icons like Cassandra Garcia and Troy Surratt, and began her career in theater, later studying makeup artistry at Emerson College with a recommendation from Bobbi Brown.
HAIR & MAKEUP ARTIST
AS SEEN IN:
Vogue • Forbes • Sephora • Style Me Pretty
HOW IT WORKS
Creative freedom, strategic structure
- Apply solo or with collaborators
- Self-select into intimate editorial teams
- Craft an original storyline within a shared world
- Choose from curated wardrobe, sets, and agency-repped talent
- Shoot your editorial with guidance—not direction—from peers
WHAT YOU'LL SHOOT
Visual worlds you'll create
- Couture micro-weddings & emotionally rich elopements
- Editorial lifestyle vignettes & fashion portraiture
- Travel-inspired tableaus & romantic leisure moments
- Flatlays, motion reels & cinematic behind-the-scenes contentt
Sample Schedule
THREE DAYS. ONE STORY. FULLY YOURS.
Day One:
Sunrise shoots, beauty vignettes, creative keynotes, golden hour scenes
Day Two:
Deep-dive narrative blocks, headliners observation and feedback
Day Three:
Sunrise vignettes, creative review, closing conversation, celebration dinner
Collaboration & synergy
- On-set access to how top creatives shoot, style, and shape stories
- Live feedback and collaborative refinement of in-progress work
- Roundtable exchanges on pitching, pricing, publishing and positioning
- Deep connection through meals, downtime, and shared creative flow
BEYOND THE FRAME
After the residency
- Two rounds of post-residency feedback
- Private 1:1 story alignment session to ensure publication readiness
- Optional media bundle: custom reel and behind-the-scenes content
- Strategic guidance for pitching, publishing, and long-term positioning
FAQs
Rain dates are reserved for October 20-23. Because this production relies heavily on natural light and cinematic outdoor scenes, we do not proceed in poor weather. Your experience will be rescheduled in full—never downsized or rushed. We don’t cut corners, and we don’t compromise creative. Your experience will be executed with full intent, quality, and continuity, exactly as promised.
Travel insurance is strongly encouraged if you’re flying in.
Yes. All meals, snacks, and beverages will be provided throughout the residency. From sunrise coffee to dinner on the final evening, you’ll be fully taken care of.
Yes. A full scene-by-scene production schedule will be shared with confirmed attendees prior to the residency, along with wardrobe guidance, call times, and shoot groups.
Our residencies are free to artists. The only potential extras are travel-related (such as flights or optional hotel upgrades). Once you’ve been selected to participate, everything else is covered—including wardrobe styling, model fees, production, location access, meals, and transportation between sets.
- Luxury Airbnb, housed with your team very close to set, with 1-hour brand shoot trade-off
- Optional private hotel purchased separately (we’ll provide recommendations)
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