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Photolicious — food and beverage photography and film studio in Abu Dhabi

Appetite,(Framed).

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This season

What are we cooking this season?

Fresh frames, swapped as the menu and the season change.

Man in a kandura pouring coffee from a brass dallah on a majlis carpet
Trays of fries and crispy chicken tenders with pickles and dips on blue tiles, a Sandos box beside them
A classic car with red seats and a man in a flat cap and braces at the wheel, the café's name in white letters across the frame
Services

Three ways to build appetite.

Visual Uplift, Seasonal Uplift or High Production, based on your brand, your phase and your needs.

Visual Uplift

A complete makeover of your brand's presence. From a full menu reshoot to social media content and ad-ready videos, with visuals that upgrade how you look across every aggregator and platform. All of it comes in one package, not in pieces.

Full menu reshoot Social Ad-Ready Web Assets Aggregators Google

Seasonal Uplift

Your whole season, in one package. Pick Ramadan, winter or summer, and we cover it with content that keeps your brand standing out from the first day of the season to the last.

Photos Videos Campaign Launches Ad-Ready Menu shoot for new products

High Production

For when your food needs a bigger stage. Cookbooks, food shows, brand films and long projects. We can run the whole project from start to finish, logistics and operations included, or just take on the shoot.

Cookbooks Food shows Brand films Long projects
Case studies

The work that made people hungry.

Cinematic work for brands across the GCC. The frames, and what came after.

talabat

Delivery platform · Campaigns, three years
A hand lifts a blue cloche off crispy fried chicken on a blue plate with an orange star, against a blue wall
A wrap and a salad bowl with olives, tomato and onion, eaten in front of screens showing the talabat name
A cheeseburger on a tiny blue table over orange sand, with a toy beach umbrella, boat and flip-flops around it
A cereal-topped drink held up beside a platter of kiwi, orange, lime and pomegranate, more cups on pool floats in an orange room
3 years together
6 campaigns

Brylo

Sweets & ice cream, Al Ain · Six-month retainer
Overhead of crumb-coated ice cream bites with a berry layer in a paper-lined tub, hands taking them, on brown
White cream whisked by hand in a steel bowl under warm, low light
Berry ice cream bite lifted from a white tub, framed by Brylo, Ice Cream Bites and Ramadan Collection lettering
Grid of nine Brylo frames: croissant sandwiches, ice cream bites, caramel biscuits and halved passion fruit
12 times ROI on ads with our content
6 months together
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Client feedback

Straight from the set.

The founders and marketers who've stood on our set — on camera.

Jerial Roastery Roastery · Visual Uplift
Brylo House Coffee concept · Seasonal Uplift
Bayroot Deli Lebanese restaurant · Visual Uplift
Talabat Visual library · High Production
Questions

Before you ask

What's included in a project?

As much of the production as the brief needs — casting and models, location, styling, strategy and script. We can run the whole thing, scaled to what the brand calls for.

What's your process?

A discovery call to understand your business, a creative call to lock the details, the production day, then post-production — around 14 days.

How long from start to finish?

About three weeks: a week of planning, a shoot day, then two weeks of post.

Can you shoot at our location or your studio?

Both. Wherever the shoot works best.

Do you shoot anything but food?

Food is our craft and our passion — but we don't say no to non-food work. We take it case by case, and if we can add real value, we're in.

Let's make them hungry.

Tell us what you're cooking. We'll tell you what it should look like — one campaign, or month after month.

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