Gabriel Awan Studios

01/08/2026

Cape Town isn’t just beautiful beaches and safari views. It’s fire-grilled street meat in Gatesville. It’s late-night conversations through steel windows. It’s smoke, rhythm, resilience, and the warmth of people who carry entire histories in how they serve you.

This city has reminded me how creativity lives in the in-between moments. How soul is built into routine. How revitalization doesn’t always look like rest—it looks like reconnection.

Cape Town, you’ve given me more than a change of scenery. You’ve given me breath.

01/06/2026

There’s beauty in the dissonance.
Stillness in the in-between.
Sometimes the camera rolls even when the plan is to rest.
Cape Town gave me this one.

01/01/2026

12/30/2025

Shark Bay, South Africa.
Slowing down. Taking it all in.
Grateful for time with family and the chance to recharge before the busy year ahead.

📍Away until Jan 15 — back soon with fresh eyes and full memory cards.

12/28/2025

Out of office and soaking up the South African summer.
Back Jan 15—but you can still reach me via DM or email (replies may be a little delayed).
Wishing everyone a peaceful start to the year.

12/22/2025

Wishing you peace, rest, and creativity this season.

Happy Holidays from Gabriel Awan Studios to you and yours.

12/16/2025

Even in winter, there’s a kind of light that finds you.
It doesn’t shout—it waits.
And when you’re ready, it reminds you:
Keep walking. The tunnel ends.

🎥: Long Island City
🎶: Youth – Daughter

12/08/2025

The air’s getting sharper. The light’s colder, lower.
There’s a shift happening—in the season, in the rhythm of things.

Sometimes you find your resolve not in the comfort, but in the chill. In standing still long enough to feel it, and choosing to keep showing up anyway.

12/03/2025

Just a walk.
But the kind that drags old thoughts out of the corners.
Aurora, Colorado. Shot on instinct.

🎵 Disarm – Smashing Pumpkins
🎥 Filmed + edited by me

11/21/2025

Imagination isn’t just for the page or the stage. It’s in the frame. The lens. The silence between words.

The courage to tell a story starts with the courage to be seen.”**

Shot at NYU Wasserman School of Continuing Education — Robert understood the assignment. A portrait session that leaned into nuance, intensity, and presence.

11/18/2025

Night falls soft, but it lingers heavy.
Sometimes you just shoot what it feels like.

11/12/2025

Sometimes clarity shows up… quietly.
No big reveal, no need to fill the space.

Just one person. One moment. And a question hanging in the air.

🎥: The Power of Stillness
🎧: “Where Is My Mind” – Pixies