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/ Photography · 2025

Mamachi — Secret Thursdays

Client
Mamachi Malta
Year
2025
Discipline
Photography
Duration
Summer season
Mamachi — Secret Thursdays

/ overview

Creative direction, photography and video for Mamachi's summer dining-and-entertainment series — a weekly ritual of smoke, sequins and theatre on the Maltese coast.

/ our role

  • Creative direction
  • Photography
  • Videography
  • Post-production

/ deliverables

  • Campaign key visual
  • Weekly social content
  • Hero film
  • Event photography

/ credits

  • Client

    Mamachi Malta

  • Photography

    Chilli

  • Video

    Chilli

/ The brief

Mamachi wanted Secret Thursdays to feel like the night you weren't sure you were invited to — a ritual, not a recurring event. The creative had to carry that mystique across every Thursday of the summer without burning out.

/ Our approach

We built the visual world around three constants — smoke, gold, and the green velvet banquette — then let the talent, food and performers move through it. Shot on-site under available light with controlled haze, leaning into the restaurant's own brand mark as a recurring graphic anchor.

/ The outcome

Secret Thursdays became Mamachi's signature summer property, with sold-out Thursdays through the season and a content library the venue continues to roll out across social and press.

/ on instagram

Mamachi — Secret Thursdays — Instagram Reel
Watch on Instagram

/ the numbers

  • Summer '25

    Season

  • Sold out

    Thursdays delivered

  • 203k

    Reel views

/ next project

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