Hi, I’m Krystallenia

I make UGC videos for travel, books and tech brands

Professional photographer and video editor. Send me a brief or a script and I shoot, edit and deliver content built around your product, ready to post.

10 years

Shooting professionally

2–3 days

Standard turnaround

Worldwide

Remote editing & delivery

Pro equipment

Camera, audio & drone

Christie Batziou, travel content creator

Travel & Destination

Frequent flyer · accommodation · destination lifestyle

Accommodation

Northern Portugal Glamping

Slow-morning stay film built around the property itself, shot and cut to sell the feeling of arriving.

Featured — Glamping accommodation

Beauty in travel

Greek Summer

Aerial and handheld travel narrative with the product placed inside the routine, never staged as an ad.

Featured — Korres

Lifestyle still

Autumn Carry

Editorial product-in-context still. Warm seasonal palette, product worn rather than displayed.

Featured — Kapten & Son

Tech & Gear

Camera bodies · drone · creator equipment

Aerial

DJI Mini 3 Aerial

Licensed drone operator with my own DJI Mini 3. Aerial shots are part of what I can deliver on a brief, not a separate hire.

Featured — DJI Mini 3

Camera gear

Shooting on Nikon Z

Gear-in-use content from a working photographer, not an unboxing. Ten years on the system.

Featured — Nikon Z6 III

Books & Reading

Literary content · publishing · reading culture

Book content

Abroad in Japan

Original Tokyo b-roll cut against the book, pairing a title with the place it describes.

Book content

Hannah Kent Books

Voiceover-led author feature with tactile close-up work on the physical editions.

Book content

Books That Make You Wanna Travel

Listicle format with on-screen text pacing, built for saves and shares.

Productivity & Lifestyle

Software · apps · creator workflow

Talking head

The Apps I Actually Use

Piece to camera with screen-recorded product walkthroughs cut in. Demonstrates a tool in real use rather than describing it.

Format — Talking head + screen capture

Perfume & Beauty

Fragrance · product in context · sensory storytelling

Fragrance

Smells Like Summer

Golden-hour sensory piece. The bottle is held against the setting it evokes, selling a feeling rather than listing notes.

Format — Short-form fragrance

Why do brands work with me

Briefs and scripts, followed properly

Send a creative brief, a shot list or a word-for-word script and I work to it, including hooks, talking points and required claims. If you would rather not write one, give me the product and the goal and I will come back with the concept first.

Shot on professional equipment

Nikon Z bodies, proper audio and a DJI drone rather than a phone. Ten years of shooting means the product is placed inside a story, so it reads as content rather than as an advert people scroll past.

2 to 3 business days

Standard turnaround from brief to delivery, longer only where scope demands it. Raw files, vertical and square crops available on request.

Working worldwide

Briefs are taken, shot and edited remotely for brands anywhere. Travel-based shoots are quoted per project when a specific location is part of the brief.

Full usage rights

Paid media, organic, website and retail use are all negotiable at contract stage. You are licensing content, not renting an audience.

Straightforward B2B

Invoiced through Glimmerpath Unipessoal LDA with an EU VAT number. Nothing to set up on your side.

Start a Project

batkrysta@gmail.com

Instagram

@christiebatziou

TikTok

@christiebat

Response time

Within 24 hours

CONTENT STRATEGY PORTFOLIO

Krystallenia Batziou — Content Portfolio

Krystallenia Batziou

Content Portfolio

Content strategy and visual storytelling, built and proven across ten years of running my own studio.

A selection of the work behind the numbers: brands built from zero, campaigns produced for international clients, and content that performed, plus the strategy and systems behind why it did.

Case study

Forró Douro — building an audience, then selling out an event before it existed

Founded the brand's entire digital presence from zero in 2017, before the festival itself existed. The first-ever presale sold out on original conceptual content alone. Since then, grown to 9,370+ followers, with same-day content produced solo during live, multi-day events.

24.7K views · 543 likes Flagship reel Watch on Instagram

27K views · 1,013 likes Top performer Watch on Instagram

17.7K views · 296 likes Event content Watch on Instagram

13.4K views · 290 likes Event content Watch on Instagram

8.2K views · 165 likes Event content Watch on Instagram

2 hours concept to posted, live Sponsor / brand deal Watch on Instagram

Own brand

KrystaPhotos — an award-winning destination wedding studio, built solo

A full-service content and photography studio founded and run independently for ten years, from strategy and shooting to the website, SEO, and paid campaigns behind it.

Top 50 Destination Wedding Photographer · Junebug 2026

Best of the Best Destination Photo Contest Winner · 2026

Junebug Best of the Best award winning wedding photo

Editorial bride on a stone pier in Porto, dramatic waves

Golden hour couple portrait in the Douro Valley

Featured on Junebug Weddings Featured on Loverly Featured on Green Wedding Shoes Full press page

Corporate and institutional clients

Video and photography production for international organisations

Ten years delivering branded content, event coverage, and animation for corporate and institutional clients across Europe and Asia.

Kwan

Short-form reel series for a talent and recruitment tech brand. Top performer: 195K views, 146 likes.

Watch top reel

AELER Technologies

Animation explainer video for a logistics startup, translating a technical product into a clear visual story.

Watch on Vimeo

AELER Technologies animation explainer preview

UNIBA Partners

Sole photographer and videographer for the organisation's flagship annual global event, plus year-round video production.

Watch animation

UNIBA Partners worldwide conference, full group photo

EurA AG

Ongoing collaborator since 2019 (European Innovation Council). Featured interview for the EU4Algae project: "Algae as Inspiration, Art as Awareness."

Watch on Facebook

Volunteer work

Friends of Strays of Komotini — building fundraising systems from scratch

Took over the shelter's TikTok in February 2026 and grew it organically, while independently designing the donation infrastructure behind it: a linked donation hub, a PayPal account, and an adoption interest pipeline. The same storytelling instinct carries over to my personal account, also built from zero.

100 → 1,053Shelter followers, organic, in months

31.5KShelter likes

403.4KLikes on personal TikTok, organic

1.8M views · 272.7K likes Volunteer content Watch on TikTok

327K views · 351K likes Volunteer content Watch on TikTok

187.5K views · 18K likes Volunteer content Watch on TikTok

"Frames that move, frames that make you feel." The same instinct across ten years, whether the client is a global insurance network, a pharmaceutical company or a stray dog shelter.