Gotham Studios Melbourne

03/09/2026

Melbourne, you were wonderful. 🥹🥂 Our sixth year at Affordable Art Fair Australia , and the best part is still the conversations.

Six years at this fair, and it still gets us every time. Watching someone stand in front of a piece a little longer than they meant to, then come back twenty minutes later to buy it. 🫂

Thank you to everyone who visited the Gotham Studios Collective at Stand H1, asked our artists about their work, and took something home. LISA SAAD PHOTOGRAPHER , Sebnem Gencer Art , Sheng Yi , Luca Chiaravalle , Francesca Laude , Amanda Forsyth Textile Art , thank you for making the stand what it was.

Melbourne is where it all began for us, so this one always feels like a homecoming.
🔥Next stop: Sydney, in two short months. Come say hello!

02/09/2026

Here's a question worth sitting with: can your customer touch your product before they buy it? If the answer is no, your photography isn't decoration. It's the product description.

Australian Whisky Auctions runs an online auction every month. Their bidders can't hold the bottle, can't check the fill level, can't inspect the label wear. They look at an image and decide whether to bid real money.
We shot for them for about five years. And the hardest part wasn't the glass, it was doing it sixty times in a row and having it all look like one business.

The temptation with work like that is to relight from scratch each time and chase a better version. We didn't. We built one setup and maintained it.
Sounds unambitious. It's the reason five years of catalogue images now sit together as one visual standard instead of sixty separate moods.

If you sell on a cycle: monthly drops, seasonal releases, rolling stock — this one's for you. If your customer buys without touching the product, let's make sure your images can carry that. See more of our product work at www.gothamstudios.net

Gotham Studios Melbourne. We are your photographers.

31/08/2026

Working to a fixed budget? Spend it on planning, not on extra shoot days.
A well-prepared three-day shoot will out-deliver a loosely planned five-day one every single time. I'd argue that's the most useful thing in this whole post.

Sistema commissioned us through their London office for a new bottle range: full crew, male and female talent, three separate locations, three days. The budget wasn't protected on the shoot days. It was protected in the weeks before them.

Got a campaign coming up with a fixed number attached to it? Let's spend it in the right place. Check out more of our work at www.gothamstudios.net

Gotham Studios Melbourne. We are your photographers.

29/08/2026

30/07/2026

New to buying art? It’s easier than you think, and your weekend invite is on us.

📍 Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne, Stand H1
🗓 27–30 August 2026
🎟️ We've sorted you free passes — DM us to claim yours today!