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title: "Kaai Zeven | Studio photo et film à Anvers, portfolio 2027"
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# Kaai Zeven | Studio photo et film à Anvers, portfolio 2027

## Cover

### Kaai Zeven

*New quay building at dusk*

*Crew filming on a rooftop at first light*

*Silk garment on a rail in a white studio*

*Lens reflecting a neon window*

*Perfume bottle on basalt*

*Kaai Zeven*

## Position

One shoot, one light, two crafts: the still and the moving frame.

## In numbers

### The studio in numbers

Eight people on the Kattendijkdok since 2019. Small enough that the person who pitches is the person behind the camera.

### People, two founders

**8**

### Campaigns shot

**64**

### Countries filmed in

**11**

### Daylight studio, dockside

**340m²**

### Clients who return

**72%**

## Point of view

### Why we shoot stills and film together

*Point of view*

Most campaigns are still made twice: a photographer on Monday, a film crew on Wednesday, two lighting plans and two moods that never quite match.

We think that split belongs to an older media plan. A brand in 2027 lives in a feed where the still, the six-second loop and the long film sit side by side, and the audience notices when they disagree.

So Nele and Samir light one set for both cameras. It costs less, and the work reads as one idea wherever it lands.

## Reel

### Reel, moving image

### On set, after dark

## Selected work

Four commissions, each shot as stills and film on the same days. What we made, and what it did for the client.

### Atelier Vandael, knitwear collection

*Knit sweater on a plaster plinth*

### Hotel Dok Noord, opening

*Hotel room onto the docks at blue hour*

### Parfums Lievens, Basalt

*Perfume bottle on wet basalt*

### Scheldeveer, the electric crossing

*Electric ferry crossing the river at dawn*

## Stills

### Stills from the dock studio

Six frames from this year's shoots, all lit with the same daylight wall we use for film.

*Camera facing a daylight wall*

*Coat on a figure walking a dock*

*Carafe and tumblers in raking light*

*Silk frame and stands in the studio*

*Hands adjusting a vase on set*

*Building reflected in the dock at night*

## How we work

### How a commission runs

The same four movements whether the job is one day in the studio or three weeks on the road.

### 1. A conversation, not a pitch

Nele Verhaeghe or Samir El Idrissi reads your brief and calls within two working days. If we are wrong for it, we say so then.

### 2. A written treatment

References, a lighting idea, a shot list and a fixed estimate with usage priced separately. Usually within a week.

### 3. One set, two cameras

Stills and film shot together. Wout Peeters produces every day on set and holds the budget.

### 4. Grade, retouch, deliver

Ilse Janssens grades film and stills to one look. Every format you need, named and versioned, reviewed frame by frame online.

## Clients

### What clients told us afterwards

> We had budgeted for a photographer and a film crew. Kaai Zeven did both in two days from one lighting plan, and the savings paid for a second location.

— Margot Vandael, Founder, Atelier Vandael

> Samir shot our rooms in the last week before opening, with builders still in the corridor. You cannot tell. Direct bookings reached 41 percent in the first quarter.

— Pieter Claeys, General Manager, Hotel Dok Noord

> Nele argued us out of a white background. The basalt images are why buyers in Paris asked for the line before we had a distributor there.

— Anaïs Lievens, Creative Director, Parfums Lievens

## How to commission

### How to commission us

Bookings for spring 2028 open on 1 October 2027. Four things worth knowing before you write.

### Send the brief

A page is enough: what it is for, where it will run, when it must exist. Write to Nele Verhaeghe at nele@kaaizeven.be.

### Lead times

Studio shoots need three weeks. Location shoots abroad need six. We hold dates for ten working days once a treatment is sent.

### What it costs

A combined stills and film day starts at EUR 14,860 excluding BTW at 21 percent. Usage is priced separately and always written down.

### Visit the dock

Kattendijkdok-Westkaai 87, 2000 Antwerpen. Come and see the daylight wall on a Thursday afternoon; we keep them free for it.