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Continental Studios
Since 1962

Six decades of photographing NYC schools.

The short version of how a Forest Hills portrait studio became the studio behind so many yearbooks.

  1. 1962

    Studio founded in Forest Hills

    Continental Studios opens its doors at 103-03 Metropolitan Avenue, photographing the first generation of NYC high school seniors.

  2. 1980s–90s

    Citywide expansion

    The school client list grows across Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, and the studio becomes an approved NYC DOE vendor.

  3. 2005

    100% digital workflow

    Continental Studios becomes one of the first NYC studios to deliver a fully digital workflow — capture to lab to publisher — for every school customer.

  4. Later 2000s

    Online proofs for families

    First in the NYC area to put student portrait proofs online for families to view and order, launching what is now mypersonalphotos.net.

  5. Today

    Three generations of yearbooks

    Many of the families we photograph now were photographed by us in the 80s and 90s. The studio is staffed full-time, year-round, in the same Forest Hills building.