Vine of green tomatoes backlit against black

Grun Berlin

Art Direction

2022

Services

  • Art Direction
  • Photography Direction
  • Packaging

Location

  • Berlin

Art direction for an urban farm growing produce in converted bunkers beneath the city. The brief was to photograph the harvest as though it had never seen daylight.

Dark backgrounds, a single edge of light on each stem and leaf, and nothing else. The imagery runs across packaging, the weekly subscription box and a seasonal almanac.

Row of empty glass jars and bottles silhouetted on a shelf in green light

6

Weeks underground

48

Still lifes

0

Repositioned subjects

4

Seasons documented

Sprig of rosemary casting its shadow across a dark green pan
Plate of greens under a work lamp on a steel kitchen counter in the dark

Production Notes

Shot inside the growing tunnels using only the farm's own lighting rigs. The team worked in near silence between harvests so nothing moved during the long exposures.

No produce was styled or repositioned. Every plant was photographed exactly where it grew, still attached to the vine.

Candlelit dining table set for ten in near darkness

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