Lanewood Studio’s space inside the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce’s INCubator is sleek, modern and overwhelmingly cool – a lot like the photographers who work inside it.
Corey and Emily Critser pose for a photo Monday, May 21, 2018 at their studio at the INCubator in Chattanooga, Tenn. The married couple and commercial photographers own Lanewood Studio.Husband and wife Corey and Emily Critser have modeled it to look like the big picture studios they worked in while living in Hollywood. The 950-square-foot open space features mostly neutral colors, a mounted flatscreen and viewing room for clients, a hair and wardrobe area, and of course, an espresso machine on the back counter that keeps them going on the long days.
Their 2-year-old Cavachon pup named Scout Yosemite Critser – who has his own Instagram account – greets all who walk through the studio’s doors.
“We really wanted to work together here and that was the whole idea for the studio,” says Emily, a 27-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, native.
“Lanewood Avenue was the very first place we lived when we got married,” she adds. “It was a little apartment in Hollywood right on Sunset Boulevard and about a block away from the Chinese Theater It’s the place where we started our lives together.”