/ Photography · 2025
Cabana Club Malta — A Day at Cabana
- Client
- Cabana Club Malta (Meliá)
- Year
- 2025
- Discipline
- Photography
- Duration
- Day shoot

/ overview
A day-in-the-life shoot with Shanel and her daughter at Cabana Club Malta — the Meliá rooftop club — capturing the poolside cabanas, the food, the menus and the family-friendly summer atmosphere.
/ our role
- Creative direction
- Photography
- Talent coordination
- Post-production
/ deliverables
- Lifestyle imagery
- Food and menu photography
- Social content
- Brand assets
/ credits
Client
Cabana Club Malta
Location partner
Meliá Hotel, Malta
Talent
Shanel & daughter
Photography
Chilli
Creative direction
Chilli
/ The brief
Cabana wanted to show what a real day at the club feels like — beyond the pool shots. The imagery had to cover the food, the service touches, the cabanas and the guest experience while keeping the warm, elevated hotel-club atmosphere Cabana is known for.
/ Our approach
We built the shoot around Shanel and her daughter as the day unfolded — arriving, settling into a cabana, ordering from the signature green menu, sharing plates and playing on the deck. Shooting in natural light against the club's wood, palm and marble palette, we leaned into candid moments, tight food framing and bright rooftop hero frames.
/ The outcome
The imagery gives Cabana a flexible library that pairs lifestyle, family and food-forward content in one visual world — used across social, menus and seasonal promotion to position the club as a full-day Mediterranean destination.
/ gallery








/ the numbers
Meliá — Cabana
Location
Day-in-the-life
Focus
Warm / Rooftop
Look
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