/ Photography · 2025
ELBA — Food Promotion
- Client
- ELBA
- Year
- 2025
- Discipline
- Photography
- Duration
- Promotion shoot

/ 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.
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/ the numbers
Food + venue
Focus
Kitchen to table
Coverage
Moody / Editorial
Look
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