Payam Emrani — Résumé

Taste over trends.

I make work built to outlast the feed — pairing the tools of the past with the tools of now. The Polaroid and the algorithm. The darkroom and the browser. Fifteen years in photography and editorial taught me composition, restraint, and how to run a shoot; today I direct AI to design and build interactive work that no template could produce — owning it from concept to finished piece.

Selected work

Fame in a Can

fameinacan.com — interactive photo project

Taste in a website. You handle real prints by hand on a tabletop; the SX-70 film look on every image is custom-built. Concept, photography, design, and build — all mine.

emrAnI

emraniai.com — cinematic site

A scroll-driven site I designed and built end to end. The animated three-act story on the Projects page — characters, pacing, motion — is entirely original.

The Magazine

Fame in a Can — 100-page print edition

Concept to finished object: copy, image, and layout. An editorial exploration of art, social media, and solitude — written, shot, and designed cover to cover.

Experience

emrAnI — Founder2026 — Present

Boutique studio where design meets AI. I take visual work from concept to finished piece, directing Claude and Cursor to build exactly what I design — fast, custom, and mine end to end.

Fame in a Can — Studio & Magazine2010 — Present

Built and ran an independent photography studio and print magazine end to end. Shot commercial, product, and editorial work for consumer and retail brands — scoping creative to the brief, managing each shoot as a multi-stakeholder project, and delivering production-ready work on deadline.

Capabilities

◆Photography
on-model, product, editorial

◆Web & interactive design
concept to build

◆Visual & motion design

◆Layout & typography
editorial

◆Adobe Creative Suite
Ps, Lr, Id

◆Generative-AI image workflows

◆Art direction
concept & brief

◆Directing AI to design & build
Claude, Cursor

Education

Juris Doctor (J.D.) — Santa Clara University School of Law
B.A., Sociology & Political Science — University of California, Los Angeles

◆ PAYAM EMRANI — EST. 2010 SIGNAL : LIVE_