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/ Photography · 2025

ELBA — Food Promotion

Client
ELBA
Year
2025
Discipline
Photography
Duration
Promotion shoot
ELBA — Food Promotion

/ overview

A food-led promotional shoot for ELBA, capturing the restaurant's wood-fired kitchen, sharing plates and warm, low-lit dining-room atmosphere through a moody, appetite-driven lens.

/ our role

  • Creative direction
  • Food photography
  • Event coverage
  • Post-production

/ deliverables

  • Menu and dish photography
  • Atmosphere imagery
  • Social content
  • Promotional assets

/ credits

  • Client

    ELBA

  • Photography

    Chilli

  • Creative direction

    Chilli

/ The brief

ELBA needed photography that pushed the food forward while still capturing the restaurant's signature mood — the brick, mesh and brass interior, the wood-fired oven, and the energy of a full dining room. The imagery had to make the menu instantly crave-able and the venue instantly recognisable.

/ Our approach

We shot across the full service: bread boards and dips, arancini, hand-pulled pasta, and pizzas straight from the wood oven, alongside guest moments and the ELBA mesh-lit signage. Working in available warm light, we leaned into deep shadows, glowing highlights and tight food framing to give every dish a confident, editorial feel.

/ The outcome

The shoot delivered a flexible library of food and atmosphere imagery now used across ELBA's promotional campaigns, social channels and menu collateral — reinforcing the venue's positioning as a destination for Mediterranean wood-fired dining.

/ gallery

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/ the numbers

  • Food + venue

    Focus

  • Kitchen to table

    Coverage

  • Moody / Editorial

    Look

/ next project

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