Short-term rental specialists
zΛmya Studio helps properties and businesses stand out, with STR audits, bespoke websites, and photography that commands attention.
Every service is built around one goal: elevating your property to perform.
A hands-on, physical audit of the property paired with a thorough review of the entire listing: photography, pricing, description, and guest experience. Every gap, on the ground and online, in one clear, prioritised action plan.
Physical audits are conducted at properties in the Paphos region of Cyprus. Online audits are available worldwide.
Your photography is your first advertisement to the world. Whether it's a rental listing, a hotel room, a restaurant, or a business space, people decide whether to engage in under a second. Smartphone snapshots lead to predictable results: average first impressions, average enquiries, average revenue. Professional photography that genuinely stands out commands attention, and the cost is a rounding error against what a single stronger season returns.
EnquireAll the images on this site are original photos by the co-founder Gary Dublanko. No AI; Just light, shadows, and composition. Available to short-term rental hosts, hotels, restaurants, and businesses in the Paphos region of Cyprus. Pricing for business commissions is quoted on request.
Custom websites for STR hosts and hospitality brands. Built mobile-first, optimised for AI and search engine discovery, and designed to convert visitors into direct bookings.
We build your site from scratch using our own design ethos that focuses more on the images and less on text, shaped by extensive research into what converts. Or simply send us links to sites you admire and we'll create something as close as you'd like, or use them as a starting point and take it somewhere entirely your own.
Direct bookings generated 45.2% longer stays and 51.3% longer booking windows than OTA bookings.
Available to business and property owners worldwide.
Most short-term rentals have bare walls, or worse, artwork chosen by the owner that leaves guests cold. Landscape and nature photography is something almost everyone responds to; it sets the mood of a place on first sight, and signals attention to detail and ambience. Our fine art prints, landscape and wildlife images from decades of travel, are selected with exactly that in mind: to make a guest feel something positive the moment they walk through the door.
EnquireAvailable worldwide, and prints ship internationally.
Limited-edition prints from decades of worldwide travel including Cyprus. Each image is selected for its ability to transform a space.
What turns somewhere you sleep into somewhere you remember has almost nothing to do with budget, and everything to do with knowing which details matter.
We know a five-star experience does not require a five-star price to create. What it requires is knowing the silent factors that trigger positive emotional responses in guests, the small, often overlooked details that quietly signal to a guest that someone here cared, and turn somewhere you sleep into somewhere you remember. Most short-term rental properties miss them entirely. We know what they are, and we know how to put them in place.
The same eye for detail extends into the lens. We shoot with an instinct for light, shadow, and atmosphere, and for the quiet details that make a space feel memorable rather than merely photographed.
They met in Cairo in 1998: Gary partway through an engineering career that had already carried him through several countries, Dea midway through a Master's degree that had taken her far from the Copenhagen she'd grown up in. This meeting launched a life together built on the restlessness to keep moving and the instinct, wherever they were, to make it feel genuinely like home.
What each carried was different, and as it turned out, complementary. Dea brought a Danish design sensibility absorbed simply by growing up in it: layers of light, clean lines, nothing in a room that didn't earn its place. And a flexibility sharpened over years of setting up a working home from scratch in country after country. Gary, raised on a farm in Canada, grew up learning practical skills that would serve him well; years in Southeast Asia gave them something harder to earn: an understanding of how great hospitality actually works, not through what a space looks like, but through how it makes you feel when you are in it. Together those lenses make one complete picture.
They brought those ideas into practice, designing and building two homes in Phuket; the second, Dama Zamya, built entirely off-grid and recognised with an architectural sustainability award in 2010. Gary's preoccupation with light began with their first build; Dea brought the unexpected pairings that made rooms feel inhabited rather than styled. A good room, like a good meal, doesn't require expense; it requires attention.
Together they have stayed in short-term rentals, from simple jungle huts and rooftop tents to bespoke luxury stays, across more than forty countries. The instinct for a considered space doesn't switch off: camping for weeks in the southern African bush, they still found ways to make camp feel deliberate: empty water bottles filled with sand, a candle pressed into each, placed around the fire. It cost nothing, and it turned the bush into somewhere that felt warm and intimate. They spent years on the other side of that experience too, hosting guests in properties they designed and built themselves. That double perspective, as guest and host hundreds of times over across very different kinds of places, is the foundation of everything at zAmya Studio.
When they walk into a property, they don't see it the same way. Gary, a photographer for thirty-five years, reads the frame first: light, proportion, what the space is doing before anyone walks in. Dea lets her gaze settle and notices the angles he hasn't caught yet. Take one of them out, and the chain breaks.
The question they always return to is the same: not what is wrong, but what is genuinely present, and what is quietly missing.
They are based in Paphos, Cyprus.
Prints are available in a wide range of custom sizes on archival photo paper, acrylic, metal, canvas wrap or framed. Let us know the size and type of print you would like and we will take it from there.
From €150
Send us an emailTell us about your property and what you want to achieve. We'll take it from there.
