Prepared for
Spaces that sell your story — right here in DFW.
Brand-forward imagery with people in it — lobbies, amenity spaces, and workplaces photographed alive, so your firm's culture reads in a single frame. Based in Fort Worth and booking across Dallas–Fort Worth first.
Recent Publications
- Fort Worth Magazine — Streams & Valleys Plaza, 2026
- FTW Today — Fort Worth Yoga Studios, 2026
- FTW Today — Fort Worth Running Groups, 2026
- Fort Worth Report — Streams & Valleys, 2025
- Fort Worth Inc. — Streams & Valleys, 2025
- Fort Worth Business Press — Streams & Valleys, 2025
- Dallas Innovates — Techstars Fort Worth, 2024
Selected Work
California portfolio · Now booking DFW · Tap any image to view large
Exteriors
Twilight & daytime · California portfolio · Tap any image to view large
Twilight — blue hour, when the building glows
Daytime — clean light, true color
Services & Process
Services
- Model direction & choreography Casting, directing, and choreographing the people in the frame, so spaces read alive and natural.
- Location scouting & site walkthroughs Pre-shoot visits across DFW to plan angles, light, and logistics before shoot day — easy to schedule when your photographer is local.
- Corporate interiors & lobbies
- Brand & identity spaces
- Amenity & hospitality
- Workplace
- Residential
- Exterior & twilight
- Set design & styling On-set styling of furniture, props, and details so every frame is shoot-ready.
- Progress documentation Photo updates across long builds, from groundbreaking to final punch list.
Process
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Pre-shoot consult & shot list We walk the space, align on the story, and build the shot list together before a camera comes out.
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Shoot day — styling & on-set direction Styling and direction on set, including art-directing the people in the frame so spaces read alive, not staged.
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Edited gallery delivery A finished, edited gallery delivered ready for your proposals, portfolio, and press.
Selected Clients
Design, construction & real estate partners
McLarney · HGA · NELSON Worldwide (incl. AAI) · DES · Eastdil Secured · Studio G Architects · RMW architecture & interiors · Aedis Architects · Jacobs · Hillhouse · Blitz · ArcTec · HMH · Principal Builders Inc · BCCI Construction · Rapt Studio · ReelGrobman · TMG Partners
Principal Builders Inc — my first client in architectural photography. AAI, acquired by NELSON, is included under NELSON Worldwide above.
Featured workplaces
Microsoft · Cisco · Samsung · DocuSign · F5 · Trend Micro · Fidelity · ServiceNow · SAP · Bill.com · SK Telecom · Ooyala · Sokon · ServiceMax · Whil
Media Licensing
& Cost-Sharing
One shoot. Every stakeholder covered. A single photo session produces the imagery for the whole project team — the architect, the GC, and the sub-vendors can each license the full set for their own marketing.
Licensing is arranged per project image set. One shoot produces assets every project stakeholder can license, instead of each party commissioning their own photography.
What a license covers
Internal & external use · Social media · RFPs & proposals · Award submissions · Print & physical media · Advertising
Multi-party cost-sharing
A finished project usually has more than one firm with a stake in showing it off. Project partners — the architect, the general contractor, and sub-vendors — can share the cost of licensing one shoot's images, so every party gets the full image set for their own marketing while paying substantially less than commissioning photography on their own. One shoot, one coordinated session, and the imagery works for everyone's portfolio, proposals, and press.
Beyond Architecture
- Event photography Corporate and community events, openings, and celebrations — covered as they unfold.
- Professional & corporate portraits Headshots and environmental portraits for executives, teams, and firms.
- Studio photography Portraits and product work shot in studio — controlled light, clean finish.
- Social media & brand development Visual content and brand imagery built for feeds and campaigns.
- Video interviews Filmed interviews and testimonials for firms and organizations.
- Short-form documentaries Short documentary storytelling for brands, nonprofits, and communities.
Press
Fort Worth & Texas
- Fort Worth Magazine “Trinity Park Scores New Streams & Valleys Plaza” 2026
- Fort Worth Inc. Streams & Valleys executive director announcement 2025
- Fort Worth Business Press Streams & Valleys executive director announcement — byline “Press Release and Photo By Gregory Cortez” 2025
- Fort Worth Report Streams & Valleys profile 2025
- Dallas Innovates Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth 2024
- FTW Today / 6AM City Fort Worth running groups 2026
- FTW Today / 6AM City Fort Worth yoga studios, incl. Indigo Yoga 2026
- Inside Jindal, UT Dallas “Jindal School Alumnus Creates Innovative Solution for Chronic Pain Management” 2024
- Madeworthy Community Member Spotlight — Brad Nowlin
Industry & national
- Office Snapshots Eight workplace features, incl. Microsoft, Cisco & Trend Micro
- Work Design Magazine Ooyala headquarters
- FacilitiesNet Ooyala headquarters
- Retail Design Blog Workplace features
- e-architect Moffett Place High Garden
- Studios Architecture Samsung Research America campus
- FreshBooks Customer case study
About —
Fort Worth based,
Texas first
Gregory Cortez is an architectural photographer based in Fort Worth and booking across Dallas–Fort Worth first — then Texas at large, the region, and nationally. If you're building, designing, or marketing space in DFW, you get a local photographer who knows the market and can be on site fast for walkthroughs, scouting, and shoot days.
He built his book in California, where architectural photography was his main line of work — corporate campuses, lobbies, amenity spaces, and residences across Silicon Valley, including work published on Office Snapshots (Microsoft's San Francisco offices, Cisco's San Jose campus, Sokon's Santa Clara headquarters) and a FreshBooks customer case study. That experience now serves Texas firms: the portfolio on this page is California work, brought home to DFW. His signature is people-in-space — staged, natural lifestyle moments that show buildings alive, not empty — the kind of imagery that sells culture, not just square footage.
His Ooyala Santa Clara photography — shot for ReelGrobman (now HGA) — has been published in Work Design Magazine and FacilitiesNet, credited to Gregory Cortez (Cortez Media Group) / courtesy of HGA. Additional published credits include Office Snapshots features for Trend Micro (Perkins+Will), ServiceMax HQ (Studio G Architects), Whil (HGA), and SK Telecom Innopartners (Studio G Architects); Retail Design Blog; e-architect (Moffett Place High Garden, DES A+E); and Studios Architecture's Samsung Research America campus page. The Ooyala headquarters — designed by ReelGrobman (now HGA) — earned IIDA's Best Medium-Sized Corporate Work Space award. Profiled in a FreshBooks customer case study as an established, award-winning architectural photographer.
Primary
Dallas–Fort Worth
Fort Worth home base. Dallas, Arlington, Plano, Frisco, Irving, Denton and the full Metroplex — local, no travel friction.
Next
Texas
Austin, Houston, San Antonio and statewide — regular travel for campuses, headquarters, and multi-site work.
Then
Regional
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and the greater South Central region.
Also
National
Available nationally for the right project.