Archives Posts Tagged ‘Photography Studio Shanghai’

We just finished a lifestyle photo shoot in Shanghai for our long-term client ZIVA. Parts of the shots were taken at the beautiful URBN HOTEL in Shanghai, parts at the boutique fitness gym ONE WELLNESS. A big thanks to David and Michael for the great cooperation as always! Click on the image below to check out some more of the shots..

We just added a new healthcare portfolio to our gallery, showing the best healthcare-related photography we have done for various clients, such as SIEMENS MED, MARQUET, OROCLEAN or SONOLIFE. Below are a few previews, click here to see all images. We merged all interior images into our architectural portfolio, and also updated our portrait section..

In December 2011, we created a nice series of still-life shots for our long-term client FISSLER, a leading brand in the German cookware market. The shots were taken in our photo studio in Shanghai. Stylist was Virginie, photographer David and producer Ping Fei. Thanks Bonnie for the great cooperation! Click on the image below to see more shots, or check out our updated latest work page.

We just created two simple but we think lovely product group shots for our long-term customer EKCESS (www.ekcess.net). The company, based in China and in the U.S., looks for innovative merchandising items to import them into the U.S. The company has already been operating successfully since a long time.

We regularly shoot products for them since many years, having done the first shoot in Shanghai in 2006. At this stage we would like to thank Tyler and his entire team for the on-going business! We also hope we soon get the chance to do a third catalog!

OVS INDUSTRY, one of the most known fashion brands in Italy with more than $1 US billion in sales, recently hired us to shoot their next look book. The two-day shoot involved in total four models and the entire production, including model booking, HMA, fashion stylist and retouching was managed and produced by our in-house production team. We like to thank Cynthia and her great team for this smooth and easy production!

There’s a good article in one of our favorite photography magazines, PDN (Photo District News), about the current landscape of commercial photography in China. The article gives a general and honest introduction of the pro’s and con’s of doing photography in China, and does not miss to also touch the challenges, which we also face on a daily basis.

Below some of the key points as summary:

© Zach Gold – for Motorola.

• Shooting assignments in China can be a lot of fun, if you can take the maddening aspects of it in stride. “It’s like the Wild West,” he says. “All of the sudden there’s all this money, and not that many people know what they’re doing.”

• He’s shot in studios that have lights rigged with ropes, cyc walls that are chipped and cracked, and floors that are “almost like dirt.” The bathrooms are “still just a hole in the ground,” unspeakably disgusting, “and there’s a $200,000 production going on in the next room. The contrast is remarkable.”

• It was a four-day shoot that called for 300 extras. “No way we could have afforded to shoot that here,” he says. But he also recalls landing in China with all his gear—and having to ship it back because he couldn’t get it through customs.

• Growing numbers of photographers in the U.S. and Europe are going after work in China because it looks, from a distance at least, like a pot of gold. The economy in the west is sluggish, competition is fierce, and rates are stagnant. China holds out the promise of new opportunities.

• Choo says that China looks modern and cosmopolitan, but scratch beneath the surface, and you quickly run up against the old China.

Thanks to the PDN Online Team for describing the current Chinese photography landscape so honestly!

We are happy to be featured in the March edition of PHOTONEWS, one of our favorite German photography magazines which gets published since 1989 with ten editions each year. The article talks about our adventurous beginnings, explains our original business idea (helping companies to save time and money by getting photographs of their products directly out of China) and also looks at the challenges and opportunities of photo studios in Shanghai and China in general.

Feel free to read the entire article by clicking on the image below (the article is unfortunately in German only).