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Talabat
Delivery platform · Campaigns, three years
Three years of seasonal campaigns for the region's largest delivery platform — Ramadan, World Cup, Christmas, Halloween and an Arabic food campaign, each landing in a different cultural register. The largest covered their topperforming vendors, with the frames running on billboards across seven cities in the UAE.
LookA different cultural register for every season, one production standard across all of them.
3years together
6campaigns
7cities on billboards
Emirati Cuisine Cookbook
ADAFSA, via Austin Macauley · Book photography & video
The first time Emirati home cooking has been documented at this scale for a government entity: 75 traditional recipes for the Abu Dhabi Agriculture & Food Safety Authority, shot through publisher Austin Macauley with five rotating chefs across 22 days. Two images per recipe, every plate built from scratch and held to one standard from the first day to the last.
LookDocumentary precision at book-print quality, identical from day one to day twenty-two.
Well Health had the product but read like every other healthy brand: clinical, classic, easy to scroll past. We moved the full team and kit to Riyadh and built the campaign on fresh colour and active, sport-adjacent lifestyle frames, so healthy eating looked like something you would choose rather than something you would endure.
LookFresh saturated colour and movement; healthy without the clinical cliché.
Full crew + kit to Riyadh
Cross-border production, UAE → KSA
6month retainer, content + ads
Bake Notes
Cakes, UAE · Campaign + film series
Bake Notes wanted a limited-edition launch that felt like memory rather than marketing: cake as it was served in an old Emirati home, without tipping into costume. We built a three-film series and a full photo campaign around that idea, cast with Emirati talent speaking in Emirati accent so the nostalgia held.
LookVintage Emirati home; warm and lived-in, not a period piece.
+30%sales
+5,000followers
+30%engagement · 3-film series
Brylo House
Specialty coffee, Al Ain · Cinematic brand film
Brylo House came to us wanting a film and nothing else defined, so we built the idea, the 1960s English world it lives in, the cast, the wardrobe and the execution. Exterior scenes meant a 6am call and a twelve-hour day to hold the light — the film took 10k views on day one and lifted engagement on their profile by over 50%.
Look1960s English vintage, warm palette, strict period discipline.
10kviews, day one
+50%profile engagement
Concept to film, all in-house
Tweeq
Restaurant & café, KSA · Opening campaign film
Tweeq wanted their opening film to carry Saudi culture rather than simply show a café. We took the brief from ideation through cast, wardrobe, strategy, shoot and post — and the film came back exactly as they had pictured it, then travelled on social.
LookSaudi culture told straight, without the postcard version of it.
Opening campaign film
Ideation to post, end to end
Cast, wardrobe and strategy in-house
Al Baik
QSR · Campaign with Talabat
Al Baik had never been shot modern — decades of traditional visuals and no reference for anything else. For their campaign with Talabat we wrote our own direction and shot the brand fresh, colourful and young, without losing the thing people already recognise.
LookFresh, colourful, youthful; a first modern read of a traditional brand.
First modern direction for the brand
Campaign with Talabat
Direction written from zero
Pizza Hut
QSR · Cricket World Cup campaign
The brief was straightforward product photography on white for the Cricket World Cup push. We delivered it and proposed one frame beyond the scope — a cricket pitch built on set with our stylist — which the client took and kept using long after the campaign closed.
LookClean product on white, plus one built environment the brief never asked for.
Product + social campaign
On-set food stylist
Set-built cricket pitch
Al Safi
Dairy, KSA · Recipe photography + video
Eighteen recipes, photographed and filmed, on a timeline with no room for a slow day. The direction was dark and vintage — food that looks like it came from a home kitchen, not a studio — and the planning is what made eighteen possible.
LookDark, vintage, home-kitchen.
18recipes
Photo + video
Compressed schedule
TTC — The Three Cows
Cheese, GCC · Stop-motion recipe films, recurring
TTC come back to us year after year through their agency for one reason: they tried stop motion elsewhere and kept only ours. Each recipe film is hundreds of frames where a nudged camera or a shifted prop means starting the whole sequence again — the discipline is the deliverable.
LookStop motion, frame by frame, with nothing allowed to move but the food.
Returning client, year on year
Retained through their agency
Recipe films in stop motion
Adore
Chocolate, UAE · Six-plus campaigns
Six-plus shoots for Adore, and not one repeated a direction. Their trust is total — they are rarely on set — so we build each concept, get it approved and execute it, treating a new idea every time as the baseline rather than the bonus.
LookA different world each time, from red velvet through the rest of the range.
6+ shoots
A new direction every time
Concept to delivery in-house
White Burger
Burgers, UAE · Seasonal campaign + ads
The barbecue box was White Burger's big seasonal push, and it needed visuals that carried the heat rather than just showing the product. We handled direction, props and location, then ran the paid campaign off the same set of frames — the box closed the season 50% up on the previous winter, which had run without us.
LookOpen fire and smoke, shot vertical; rustic ingredients meeting a modern barbecue.
+50%barbecue sales vs. previous winter
Full production + paid ads
One season
Just Burger
Burgers · Three campaigns
The charcoal and fire product was the one thing Just Burger's internal team could not shoot; live flame needs a crew that can control it safely and still make it look good. We ran three campaigns on that basis, and the product moved on the back of the fire visuals.
LookLive fire and charcoal, handled safely on set.
3campaigns
Live-fire production
Capability the in-house team lacked
Henry
Burgers, food truck concept · Campaign
Henry is a pickup food-truck concept that needed to promise a fine-dining experience, with no dining room to shoot in. We built the entire mood inside the owner's house using props and direction alone, so the visuals sell a table the brand does not physically have.
LookVintage fine-dining, built from nothing in a private house.
Full set build in a private house
Fine-dining look, pickup concept
Props and direction in-house
Shot
Café · Rebrand content direction
Shot came to us mid-rebrand, moving from black to navy and white, with no existing reference for how the new identity should behave in content. We set the direction from zero — colour, styling and content strategy — built for where the brand was heading rather than where it had been.
LookNavy and white, built without a reference to lean on.
Content direction for a rebrand
Colour, styling and strategy
Built for the brand's next phase
Almair
Coffee, UAE · Launch campaign
Almair arrived with coffee and nothing else: no idea, no location, no cast. We built the campaign end to end, and the hardest part was finding a location traditional enough to mean something without tipping into pastiche.
LookTraditional enough to mean something, restrained enough to stay artistic.
Full campaign from zero
Location, cast, wardrobe, props
Ideation to delivery
Luv Chix
Japanese-modern fast food, Abu Dhabi · Launch campaign
A Japanese-leaning fast food concept whose launch films lived or died on casting that actually read as the brand — the single hardest element to source. We found the right face through our supplier network and built the videos on a direction that matched the concept rather than a generic fast-food template.
LookJapanese-modern, cast and styled to the concept.
Launch campaign
Casting sourced to brand direction
Supplier network for talent
CRMBZ
Burgers, Abu Dhabi · Seasonal campaign, via agency
Brought in through an agency to give the brand a fresh seasonal look. We shot through an Abu Dhabi summer with the venue's air conditioning down — the team worked around it, and the frames do not show a minute of it.
LookSeasonal and fresh, shot in conditions that were neither.
Agency partnership
Seasonal campaign
Delivered despite venue conditions
Yuki
Food truck concept, 7 branches · Menu photography
Yuki runs seven branches, all outdoor food-truck sites, which meant a 150-item menu had to be shot outdoors with no studio to fall back on. We built a set theme that reads as the brand rather than as an outdoor location, and held the same standard across all 150 items.
LookA built brand world outdoors — nothing in frame says shot on location.
150menu items
7branches, outdoor concept
One standard across the full menu
Memoria
Café · Menu photography
The client picked their smallest branch for the shoot, leaving barely enough room to set up the equipment. We worked within it and delivered 40 items in a single day — clean, fresh and simple enough that the constraint never shows.
LookFresh and simplistic; a small room that never reads small.
40items
One shoot day
Smallest branch as location
Maki
Japanese, premium · Menu photography, two days
Maki is a premium Japanese brand, and the menu had to carry that before anyone read a price. We shot across two days on a dark palette and kept the styling deliberately simple, so the luxury comes from restraint rather than decoration.
LookDark, simple, luxurious; restraint as the premium signal.
2shoot days
Dark premium palette
Full menu
Shawaya Daaoun
Charcoal grilled chicken, Abu Dhabi · Talabat menu shoot
Shawaya's Talabat listing was underperforming on basic images, so we proposed a full menu reshoot built for the aggregator rather than for the wall. We shot the food with Khaleeji cultural cues carried through the frames, and sales rose more than 50% once it went live.
LookCharcoal and Khaleeji cues, built to work at thumbnail size.
+50%sales increase
Full menu reshoot
Built for aggregator listings
Min Diyarna
Cloud kitchen, Dubai · Aggregator menu photography
A cloud kitchen lives or dies inside an aggregator grid, where every competitor shoots the same food on the same white. We proposed green as the brand's signature and shot the whole menu on it, so the listing stops the scroll before the dish is even read.
LookSignature green, chosen to break the aggregator grid.
Full aggregator menu
Signature colour proposed by us
Cloud kitchen, delivery-first
Voya
Bakery · Menu photography
Voya wanted a menu that felt natural and sunlit without losing the premium read, and baked goods are unforgiving — colour and surface shift fast under lights. We shot the full menu in a day with their team supporting the bakes, keeping every crust and crumb in the right tone.
LookNatural light and warmth; premium without gloss.
Full menu in one day
Natural sunlight direction
Colour-critical bakes
Elva
Premium desserts · Product & menu photography
Thirty products, a large share of them sealed inside glass — the hardest thing to shoot cleanly, with reflections, double edges and colour shifts all arriving at once. We lit and styled the range so the product reads clearly through the glass while the packaging still looks premium.
LookClean product through glass, packaging kept premium.
30products
Shot through glass packaging
Premium dessert range
Probiotico
Healthy juices · Menu photography
Probiotico sells a flavour the bottle cannot show, and a plain product shot leaves the customer guessing on an aggregator or a web store. We shot in the client's own space and built every frame around the ingredients beside the drink, so the flavour reads from the photograph alone.
LookFresh, cold and ingredient-forward; flavour legible at thumbnail size.
Shot in client's own space
Ingredients in every frame
Built for aggregators + web store
Brylo
Sweets & ice cream, Al Ain · Monthly content
Brylo came to us as a home business with a feed that looked like one: a real product sitting behind basic phone visuals, with no way to be taken seriously as a brand. We opened with a single Ramadan shoot backed by ads that delivered their best sales month to date, then moved into a six-month retainer where every month gets its own direction, built around the season and the product rather than repeating the last one.
LookElevated brown and beige; premium, but warm enough for the local market.
6month retainer
Record sales month, first campaign
1 → 2kitchens, Al Ain → Abu Dhabi
Heaven of Roses
Chocolate & flowers, Abu Dhabi · Branding + monthly content
Heaven of Roses came to us before it had a visual identity, so we built the branding first and then carried it into six months of monthly content, content strategy and paid ads. Holding the strategy, the shoot and the media in one place is what got them to profitability three months into their first year.
LookDark green luxury, silk and sheen: chocolate that reads expensive before it is tasted.
Profitable in 3 months, year one
6month retainer
Branding + content + ads
Kombucha brand
Canned drinks, Abu Dhabi · Monthly content
A canned kombucha brand that needed a full year of content to actually look like a year, not twelve versions of the same shoot. One shoot a month, each in its own world — a beach set in summer, a yacht in spring, a warm indoor build in winter — so the feed moves with the season instead of repeating itself.
LookCold, fresh, saturated colour; the fruit and the condensation do the selling.
6month retainer
6shoots, 6 distinct directions
3seasons covered
Kaaki wo Nos
Lebanese, Al Ain & Abu Dhabi · Monthly content
A Lebanese brand with branches across Al Ain and Abu Dhabi that needed one visual language covering all of them, not a different look per location. We shot across the branches over six months and built a modern, colourful read of Lebanese food — engagement rose more than 20%, and every item we put behind a campaign moved.
LookColourful, fresh and young; modern Lebanese, held together by their brand blue.
+20%social engagement
6months together
Multi-branch, 2 emirates
Fino
Sandwiches & fast food, Abu Dhabi · Monthly content + ads
Fino was turning over around AED 1,000 a day and looked it: a sandwich brand with the product to compete and none of the visual authority to back it. We shot it to the standard of a global QSR — hard reds and oranges — and ran the ads behind it; three months later the daily average sat at AED 2,500 across Talabat and direct orders.
LookGlobal QSR standard in hard red and orange.
AED 1,000 → 2,500daily average
+150%in 3 months
Talabat + direct orders
Vanilla
Desserts · Monthly content
Vanilla arrived after a run of agencies that never quite got the brand — the product was feminine and playful, the visuals kept coming back generic. Three months of content, from summer beach sets to full indoor menu days, built the pink they had been trying to describe: youthful, but elevated enough to read as premium.
LookFeminine pink, kept elevated rather than sweet.
3month retainer
Beach + indoor menu days
Brand direction defined
Cro
Café, Al Ain · Monthly content
Cro knew it was being read as cheaper than it was, stuck with an agency producing content that undercut the room. We rebuilt the feed around white, light and simplicity — they archived every old post and relaunched on the new work, and engagement came back 50% higher.
LookWhite and bright, simplicity as the proof of quality.
Julith opened into a Dubai coffee market where good content is the baseline, so the brief was to set a new standard for it rather than match it. We started before the doors opened with a teaser campaign, then carried the launch on content and ads — the hype filled the room through the whole opening period and took the following from 10k in month one to 20k in month two.
LookA new standard for coffee content in Dubai.
10k → 20kfollowers, months 1–2
Full house through the opening period
Teaser → launch campaign
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