Motive has four locations. Our Classic & Body spaces are located inside the Hobbs Building in the historic West Bottoms District near downtown Kansas City. Our Crossroads & Suite201 spaces are located at 1625 Oak St, in the up-and-coming East Crossroads Arts District.

Motive can be accessed by a buzzer code at the front of our buildings. We’ll provide that code for you when you book your rental. Once you input the code, you’ll be buzzed in. We’ll provide additional instructions on accessing the spaces once inside the buildings when you pay for your rental.

Motive believes in advancing the creative community by establishing an expectation that our services have value and in order to provide that value we must be able to financially support ourselves, and our families. We do not allow multiple photographers to book a single session and then split the cost. to put it simply, we believe you should pay a fair rate for the ability to create 2X the output from a single rental.

To provide our customers the option to collaborate with other photographers, we’ve provided competitive rental options for 2 or more photographers.

We ask that you arrive 5 minutes before your studio rental and stay no more than 5 minutes after your rental. We do provide additional 15-minute time blocks for purchase on the front and back of your session for load-in/out.

At Motive, we believe that an accountable creative community is a thriving creative community. We do not offer refunds of any kind.  We offer rescheduling with no fee up to 7 days before your booking and a 50% rescheduling fee with less than 24 hours.

We offer studio time packages that can be used at any of our 4 spaces as well as memberships that offer complete access.

Yes! We offer individual classes for studio lighting, introductory photography, and advanced photography technique. You can book a crash-course right from our booking page.

Our on-site staff and photography team are available for booking whenever you need professional portrait, headshot, editorial, product, apparel, or food photography.

Motive offers event venue & space bookings as well. These bookings will require prior arrangement and pre-screening with our staff and are priced at a different rate than our usual hourly booking.