Armonico
An ongoing photography and videography library for a leather goods house, shot across multiple collections and locations
About this project
Client: Armonico
Services: Photography, Videography & Post-Production, Art Direction
Mediums used: Product Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Vertical Campaign Film, Color Grading
Build Armonico a continuously growing library of product and lifestyle content — stills and film, in studio and on location — that stays visually consistent collection after collection.
Armonico makes fine leather footwear and goods — loafers, sneakers, exotic-leather collections in alligator, ostrich and himalaya crocodile — and needed content dropping every month, not once for a single launch. That's the harder brief: keeping a studio product shot, a poolside lifestyle shoot in Doha, and a location shoot at a hotel suite all reading as the same brand, over dozens of releases, without the visual identity drifting shoot to shoot.
We set up a repeatable system rather than reinventing the shoot every time: consistent studio lighting for product-on-white stills that hold up as e-commerce and catalogue imagery, paired with location lifestyle shoots — poolside, in hotel suites, on city streets — for the same collections. Every video follows the stills it was shot alongside, so a collection launch always arrives as a matched set: clean product shots, in-context lifestyle stills, and a short vertical film cut from the same session.
- Photography: Studio product photography for every new collection (loafers, sneakers, exotic leathers), plus on-location lifestyle shoots at hotels and residences across Doha.
- Videography: Shot and directed short-form vertical films per collection — collection reveals, close-up craftsmanship detail, and location-based lifestyle films.
- Post-production: Edited and graded every video in-house so pacing and color stayed consistent from one monthly drop to the next.
- Art direction: Planned sets, locations and styling per collection so the product stayed the hero whether the frame was a plain studio background or a poolside setting.
Armonico now has a running content library instead of a one-off shoot — new collections launch with studio stills, lifestyle imagery and film ready together, on a monthly cadence. Because the same team shoots every drop, the brand looks like one continuous body of work rather than a patchwork of separate photographers and videographers across the year.
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