Onegin Gourmet

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The brief

Five still lifes from Russian fairy tales

Onegin Gourmet needed five images to launch a spirits range for VIP clients. Each image had to reference a different Russian fairy tale and be created physically on set, with no models or digital compositing.

The Onegin production team reviewing the still-life set — Onegin Gourmet · Behind the scenes

On location / Moscow

Building the still life

Flowers, fruit, textiles and props were arranged around the bottle on set. The film follows the team as they prepare the compositions for the shoot.

Full production · Photography campaign

Production scope

Our responsibilities: Secure access to the closed Moscow castle location
Select and arrange textiles, flowers, fruit and props for five compositions
Produce the still-life shoot through finished campaign photographs
Delivered: Five still-life photographs used in magazine advertising, events and digital communications across Russia and the CIS.
The production challenge: A seventeen-hour shoot with physical compositions, no models or digital compositing, and only colour grading and minimal retouching.

What we did

We secured access to a closed castle in central Moscow and produced five compositions during a seventeen-hour shoot. Textiles, fruit, flowers and props carried the story references around the bottle. The photographs needed only colour grading and minimal retouching.