Shooting the unbuildable: a week inside NEOM
Permits, escort vehicles, satellite-only comms, and the operational reality of capturing a city that doesn't exist yet.
Production diaryComing soon
The journal
launching Q2 2026.
المجلة
A field journal from our shoots across the Gulf. Behind-the-scenes from AlUla, NEOM, GITEX, the Bahrain Grand Prix. Production diaries. Lighting breakdowns. Permit war stories. A quiet read for people who care about the craft of cinematic regional photography.
What's coming
Five inaugural essays.
The light at Hegra: working with golden-hour pink sandstone
Why AlUla's tombs are the hardest landscape to photograph well, and the lens choices that earn their cost.
CraftLEAP and GITEX: covering 200,000 attendees and one keynote
How a four-camera, six-editor team delivers the headline social cut within ninety minutes of a CEO stepping offstage.
ConferencesModesty as default, not request
What it looks like, operationally, when a wedding crew defaults to abaya-respecting framing without ever being briefed to do so.
CultureWhy we don't use stock music. Ever.
A practical defense of original score and licensed regional artists on every hero film we cut.
Craft