The Botanist — Product Photography, 2024
Bottle & Box
Product photography for a skincare launch: violet glass and an aubergine box on wet black stone, lit with the same two gels as the campaign portraits so that pack and face belong to one world.
Still Life Photography
Robbie S.
One light, moved slowly.
Robbie S. is a still life and product photographer with a sculptor's eye for light. Most at home in the studio, building an image one deliberate decision at a time — usually with a single source, and a great deal of black card.
Robbie assisted in catalogue studios for years before going alone, and learned there how to make forty identical pictures before lunch. The personal work is the reverse: one picture, however long it takes.
Selected Work
Hollowell — Still Life Photography, 2025
Black on Black
The full range of a cast-iron foundry, photographed black iron on black slate from a single source — so the product imagery and the brand film could sit side by side.
The Cabinet — Specimen Photography, 2026
Three Thousand Specimens
Five weeks in a museum basement photographing three thousand specimens, each one focus-stacked so that it holds up at any magnification — down to the scales on a wing.
Independent Work — Magazine Commission, 2025
Ten Objects for a Kitchen
A still life portfolio for a food magazine's design issue: ten kitchen objects, each photographed like sculpture. Ran across fourteen pages.
Within the Collective
Robbie typically leads product, packaging and object photography, and any project where a thing has to be seen more clearly than the eye sees it. Robbie works with V. and the collective's art directors on the look before a light is switched on, and alongside its portrait and location photographers when a campaign needs both a face and an object.
All project enquiries are handled by Creative Director V. through Influence Design Studio.
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