// WorldwideSuperyacht photographer, Italy.
Porto Cervo, Viareggio, Naples, Portofino and Trieste. The country that builds them, which means photographing them before they float.
Send an enquiry →In Italy the yard is the client
Italy is different from every other superyacht market because the boats are built here. In Palma or Antibes a photographer works for a broker selling a used yacht; in Viareggio, Ancona or Naples the client is usually the yard, and the job is to document a new build from the shed through launch to sea trials.
That is a different discipline. In the shed there is no daylight and no water, just scaffolding and a hull with the paint still masked, and the pictures are for the owner and the press rather than for a listing. Then comes the launch, which happens once and at an hour somebody else decides. And finally sea trials, which are the only chance to get the boat under way before she is handed over and disappears. Miss one of the three and it does not come back.
What comes off the boat
Exterior and aerial
Alongside, at anchor and under way. Drone work only once the captain has cleared it.
More →PhotoInterior
Saloon, cabins and crew areas with the light that is there. No lighting rig on the teak.
More →FilmWalkthrough
A tour a charter client can watch before they enquire, plus running shots.
More →MarketingWhere it goes
Central agency pack, charter presentation, website and social.
More →How a session runs
The brief
What the images are for: a sale, a charter season or the yard. That decides everything else.
Aboard
Half a day to a day, in the order the crew can live with. I bring almost nothing with me.
Delivery
Edited, cropped for every portal, position data stripped out of every file.
A launch in the calendar?
Tell me briefly which boats and which water it is about. You get a personal answer with a proposal and a fixed price.
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