Art photography
For catalogues and books, insurance records and online sales. Paintings, works on paper and sculpture, photographed with colour-managed light in the gallery, in storage or at the collector’s home.
What we photograph
Also called fine art or art reproduction photography: a faithful, colour-managed photograph of each work, made once and used for years. For collectors and family offices, galleries, auction houses, artists and their estates, publishers and insurers in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and across the UAE.
Flat, square and evenly lit, with the colour of the original.
Several angles per piece, with the form and the material readable.
Lit at a low angle when the surface is part of the work.
Prints, photographs and multiples, each identified to its edition.
What the files are for
Exhibition catalogues, monographs, auction catalogues and catalogues raisonnés. Files your designer and printer can use as they are.
A visual record of each work for your insurer, registrar or family office: the front, the back, signatures, labels and any existing marks.
Images that sell the work when the buyer cannot see it in person: online viewing rooms, auction listings, private sales and press.
Method
A colour target in a reference frame for every lighting set-up, so the file matches the work.
Lights angled and polarised to remove reflections without flattening the texture.
Diffused light for polished metal, glass and reflective sculpture.
Full-resolution files for print, plus web versions, in the formats your printer or platform asks for.
Works are moved by your registrar, art handlers or the owner. We set up around them.
Each file named to your inventory or lot number, with a contact sheet.
Selected frames
How it works
Your list of works, sizes, surfaces and where they are.
Views per work, set-up, schedule and file specifications.
Signed before we see the collection, if you wish.
A portable set in the gallery, the storage facility or the residence.
Colour-managed, named to your inventory, in a private gallery.
Questions
A precise photograph of a work of art, made to reproduce it faithfully: square to the camera, evenly lit, with true colour and the texture of the surface. It is the image used in catalogues and books, insurance and condition records, and online sales.
Each set-up is photographed with a colour reference target under calibrated light, and the files are delivered colour-managed, so reproductions match the work as closely as print and screen allow.
Yes. Lighting is set for each surface, including glass, varnish and polished metal, to remove reflections without flattening texture.
Yes. We bring a portable set and work wherever the collection is, including private residences and free-zone storage, under your NDA if required.
No. Works are moved by your registrar, your art handlers or the owner. We set the lights and camera around them.
Yes. We work through your inventory, photograph the front, back, signature, labels and any existing marks of each work, and name each file to its inventory number.
Yes. Every work is photographed with the same light and colour reference, so the plates are consistent from the first page to the last, and files are named to your catalogue numbers.
Every commission is quoted individually, from the number of works, their size and surfaces, the views needed and where they are.
The artist keeps the copyright of the work itself. We license the photographs to the gallery, collector, institution or artist for the uses agreed in writing, such as press, catalogues, insurance and online sales.
Enquiries
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