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BROOKLYN .

BERLIN .

EST .

2014 .

WE

PHOTOGRAPH

THE WORK NOT


THE / BRIEF.

Brivon is a small commercial photography studio. We make pictures for
brands that care about craft — fashion houses, architecture practices,
food magazines, and the kind of catalogues people keep on a shelf
instead of in a folder.

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SERVICES & RATE

140+ · Champigns Dilivered · 11 · Cover Stories, 2024 ·
3 · ADC AwardS
No. 037

ALEXIS

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FOR ATRIUM SS25

35MM · F/1.4 · 1/250s ISO 400

11YR


STUDIO ESTABLISHED 2014

42

+

Active brand clients

11K

Frames shot in 2025

94%

Repeat-client rate

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SELECTED WORK

Twelve frames

from a

working year.

We chose these because each one taught us something new—

a different light, a different brief, a different way to ask a subject

to stand still. Click through to see how each project was made.

EDITORIAL

ATRIUM

●

SS25 LOOKBOOK

36 FRAMES ● 4 DAYS ● LISBON
STILL

MAISON STOL

CATALOGUE ● 18 FRAMES
ARCHITECTURE

KUNSTHAUS FOLDER

YEARBOOK ● 22 FRAMES
FOOD

SALT & EMBER

cookbook ● 96 FRAMES
PORTRAIT

HENNINGO VORSTAD

FOR TYPE QUARTERLY
PRODUCT

ALDO & MARLOW

FW24 PRODUCT ● 28 FRAMES
STILL

FARM HOUSE

KNITWEAR TYPE QUARTERLY
All Projects . 142
CHAPTER 01

A studio

that

treats

each

frame as

work.

Brivon was founded in 2014 by two photographers and a producer who had spent four years freelancing across Paris, Stockholm and Brooklyn, and who were tired of how often a
great brief was reduced to whichever frame the agency could
approve fastest. The studio is small on purpose — a working
group of seven people, one in-house retoucher, two long-
time producers, and a roster of fifteen freelance assistants we trust enough to recommend without flinching.

We work

slower than

the rate card.

The output

looks faster

than the rate

card.

— MIRA HALDEN, FOUNDER

What that means in practice: we do fewer projects per quarter than most studios our size, we keep the same producer on a brand from the first call to the final delivery, and we ship a colour-managed gallery the day after the shoot — not the week after. Clients have called this "expensive when you book it, cheap when you ship it." That is, on reflection, exactly the right description.

• WHAT WE DO

Five disciplines.

One pair of

hands.

Most studios pick a lane — fashion, food, architecture, product — and stay in it. We work across all five because the same lighting principles, the same colour discipline, and the same patience apply. The discipline is constant; the subject changes.

01 / EDITORIAL

Cover stories

and long-form features.

Magazine covers, story-led portrait essays, location-driven editorial. We light for the page, not the contact sheet — every frame is chosen and lit knowing where it lands in the layout.

FOR TYPE . GENTLEWOMEN . CEREAL .

02 / CAMPAIGN

BRAND

CAMPAIGNS.

SS, FW, holiday — the full seasonal cadence with one continuous creative direction.

03 / STILLS

Catalogue

stills.

E-com pack-shots and elevated product still life, shipped retouched within 48 hours of capture.

04 / ARCHITECTURE

SPACES & INTERIORS

Buildings, hotels, retail, residential. Natural light first; supplement only when the architect would approve.

05 / DOCUMENTARY

Process

documentary.

Behind-the-bench, in-the-kiln, on-the-line — the work-of-making, told honestly.

06 / MOTION

Stills +

motion.

A second crew, the same direction. We bring our own DP for hybrid stills-and-motion days.

07 / POST

In-house retouching

and colour management.

An ICC-profiled grading pipeline, an in-house retoucher who has been with the studio since 2017, and a printer relationship in Berlin and Brooklyn for any project that ends up on paper.

CALIBRATED TO GRACOL . ISO 12647. ADOBE RGB .

• HOW WE WORK

From the first

call to the last

FRAME

A first call is twenty minutes and free, always with the producer who will run your project from start to finish. Most projects ship in three to six weeks; the bottleneck is almost never the shoot itself — it is the brief, the location lock, and the talent confirmation. We keep that gauntlet short by holding the kickoff in the first week, not the third.

Step 01 Discovery — brief, references, light maps, mood
Step 02 Pre-production — location, casting, props, talent
Step 03 Shoot — 1 to 4 days, depending on scope
Step 04 Selects — colour-managed within 24 hours
Step 05 Retouch — in-house, 5 to 10 business days
Step 06 Delivery — archive, contact sheets, print files
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DAY 02 . BROOKLYN
GREENPOINT . NYC

• THE STUDIO

TWO ROOMS,

TWO GRIDS,ONE TEAM.

Brooklyn is a 280-square-metre daylight space in a converted printers' building in Greenpoint — north light, 4.6-metre ceilings, a working kitchen for food work, and a full grip kit. Berlin is a smaller, 140-square-metre room in a Mitte ground floor — south light, polished concrete, and a calmer pace for editorial portraits and product. We move between the two rooms based on brief and time of year.

BROOKLYN 280 m² · 4.6 m ceilings · N-facing · daylight + tungsten
BERLIN 140 m² · 3.2 m ceilings · S-facing · daylight only
GRIP Profoto Pro-11 · B10X · Aputure 600D · 1200D
CAPTURE Phase One IQ4 · Sony A1 · Leica SL3 · Mamiya 7
TETHER Capture One Pro · 5K Eizo CG279X · ColorMunki
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PUBLISHED IN

SELECTED, 2023-25

TYPE Quarterly

The Gentlewoman

Cereal Magazine

Apartamento

It's Nice That

FT Weekend

• NOTES FROM THE FLOOR

The journal.

Short notes from the studio — sometimes a working note about a lighting setup, sometimes an opinion about colour management, sometimes a frame we kept thinking about long after delivery.

SETUP . 04 Oct 2025

Why we still use a 4×6 silk.

Soft does not have to mean flat. A working note about why a hard silk still beats a soft box for portrait work on a clear day.

READ NOTE

PROCESS. 22 SEP 2025

Calibration is the

cheapest hire.

An argument for hiring your printer before you hire your retoucher. A note for studios scaling from solo into a working team.

READ NOTE

ARCHIVE. 09 AUG 2025

The third frame is usually

the one.

From the Atrium SS25 shoot — why the third frame in any sequence almost always reads the best, and what to do about it.

READ NOTE

BOOKING . 2026

HAVE A PROJECT

THAT DESERVES THE

THIRD FRAME?

We take on twenty to twenty-six campaigns a year, and we book three to five months ahead. If you have a brief brewing for Q2 or later, the right time to send a first note is now.

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