ABOUT & CONTACT STUDIO PETRINO

An independent creative studio exploring travel, style, hospitality, design, and the culture around them.

STUDIO PETRINO was created with a simple idea:
to capture, curate, and share the feeling of travel.

Not the logistics.
Not the itineraries.
The feeling.

The coziness of a dimly lit hotel bar. The hum of an early-morning airport lounge. A vintage guidebook pulled from a dusty shelf. A winding coastal road at sunset. An ice-cold Martini served just right. A well-worn blazer. A classic car parked outside a café.

The small rituals, objects, places, and moments that make the world feel bigger and more interesting.

STUDIO PETRINO exists to preserve that feeling through photography, writing, curated objects, and creative projects.

The World of STUDIO PETRINO

This is a place where image, object, and memory meet.

Original photography sits alongside vintage travel guides, hotel objects, airline ephemera, apparel, books, and other things collected for their design, history, character, or ability to transport you somewhere else.

The Studio Journal tells stories about hotels, restaurants, road trips, menswear, design, travel rituals, and the people and places worth knowing.

Together, they form a world that feels lived-in, curious, nostalgic, worldly, and just a little romantic.

Explore: Prints, Objects, Apparel, The Studio Journal

Selected features and collaborations include: ASSOULINE · J.PRESS · WM Brown · YOLO Journal · Sonic Editions · Oetker Hotels · Photo Festival St. Barth · Reader’s Digest · Gents Cafe

Recent Features

WM Brown - Dress Code: Jonathan Petrino
A conversation about personal style, travel, menswear, the clothes worth keeping, and the influences behind Studio Petrino.

Gents Cafe - Capturing Moments to Build a World Within the Home
A conversation about photography, collecting, travel, and the origins of Studio Petrino.

Leave it to Anna - Coffee Talk: Golden Hour, Great Hotels, and Getting Lost on Purpose
A conversation about travel, hotels, photography, and the places that continue to inspire the studio.

J. PRESS - Spring/Summer 2026
Selected Studio Petrino photography featured by J.PRESS.

View more writing & selected work →

Jonathan Petrino

STUDIO PETRINO was founded by Jonathan Petrino, a photographer, writer, collector, and lifelong traveler.

His perspective is shaped by an interest in menswear, hotels, restaurants, photography, automotive culture, design, and the rituals surrounding travel.

Years spent moving between cities, countries, industries, and cultures have informed the way he sees places and objects: not simply for what they are, but for the stories, memories, and associations they carry.

Jonathan’s background includes service in the U.S. Marine Corps and a long career working internationally in technology and partnerships. Along the way, photography, writing, collecting, and travel gradually became less of a side pursuit and more of a way of looking at the world.

STUDIO PETRINO is where those interests come together.

Work with STUDIO PETRINO

Studio Petrino collaborates with hotels, fashion and lifestyle brands, restaurants, destinations, publications, and other culturally aligned partners on photography, editorial storytelling, creative direction, brand content, curation, and special projects.

The best projects tend to begin with a shared point of view rather than a traditional brief.

If you are working on something interesting, particularly at the intersection of travel, style, hospitality, design, or culture, we would love to hear about it.

For collaborations, commissions, press, events, shop questions, or just to say hello: bonjour [at] studiopetrino [dot] com. Or use the form below. We’d love to hear from you.

The SP Stripe (The Yankee Flag)

There’s an old nautical signal flag: Yankee, the letter “Y” that means “I am dragging my anchor.” Sailors hoisted it when a ship meant to stay still began to drift, pulled quietly by a current it could no longer resist. I’ve always loved that. It sounds less like a warning and more like an honest confession: I wasn’t trying to move…but something out there wanted me to.

STUDIO PETRINO was born from that same feeling. I spent years trying to keep my anchor set with a 'normal' career, a predictable path, the sensible version of a life. But the current kept tugging: first in the wide-open American West and the mountains and horizons; then in New York City, where heritage, commerce, and style collide in a way that feels both historic and electric; then on the glowing shorelines of St. Barth and the French Riviera; and always in Italy, where beauty is a daily ritual and craftsmanship is a language.

Eventually I realized I wasn’t drifting away from anything. I was drifting toward the places that felt like home...even if they weren’t home quite yet.

The SP Stripe became a quiet symbol of that shift. A reminder that sometimes you don’t choose the movement...the movement chooses you. And if you let it pull you, it might carry you somewhere worth building a life around.

- Jonathan

Please email us at bonjour [at] studiopetrino [dot] com or use the form below and we'll be in touch.