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Maria Tash

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Luxury

Maria Tash

A fine-jewelry house found us for our stop-motion.

A cluster of star-cut diamonds scattered across deep navy velvet, catching the light, shot by Ford Media Lab for Maria Tash.
A cluster of star-cut diamonds scattered across deep navy velvet, catching the light, shot by Ford Media Lab for Maria Tash.

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Video & Motion

Product Photography

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(01 / the_challenge)

Fine jewelry lives in the details, and details are hard to make move. Maria Tash needed their pieces alive in motion, every facet and setting readable at macro scale, without losing an ounce of the craft that makes them worth it.

(02 / the_approach)

Frame by frame, the patient way. We brought the jewelry to life in stop-motion, shot at macro so every detail held, building the motion one capture at a time. The kind of tactile, unhurried craft a fine-jewelry house goes looking for, and the reason they found us.

(03 / the_work)

Four Maria Tash jewelry boxes arranged around a ribbon-wrapped gift on a rich red surface, the brand’s holiday packaging.
Three Maria Tash jewelry boxes open on deep red revealing fine jewelry, with branded ribbon, from the holiday campaign.
Maria Tash jewelry boxes arranged around a ribbon-wrapped gift on red, a motion frame from the brand’s holiday campaign.
A shield-cut diamond pendant on a fine gold chain against a dark backdrop, shot for Maria Tash.
A diamond lightning-bolt earring in gold on a soft neutral backdrop, photographed for Maria Tash.
A deep navy-to-plum gradient backdrop created for the Maria Tash holiday campaign.

(04 / results)

Here’s what this one proves: the work isn’t bound to spirits. A fine-jewelry house found us, loved what we made, and still follows the studio years and two cities later. The craft carries, whatever the category.

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Extreme macro of the embossed black-and-silver Roué label on a faceted bottle of 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon, deep red wine glowing through the cut glass, shot by Ford Media Lab.

Roué // 2025 // lab_report

Macro photograph of a pink cocktail in a coupe with an orange twist, a bottle of Absolut Citron in soft focus behind it, shot for Ford Media Lab’s 2019 Absolut production.

Absolut // 2019 // lab_report

Copies of 1806 magazine, Volume 1 New York City and Volume 2 New Orleans, fanned across a surface, each cover reading “the defining stories of thirsty people,” shot by Ford Media Lab.

Collectif 1806 / Rémy Cointreau // 2017 // lab_report

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