Field

Still Life / Product / Material

Still life and product photography formed through exact light, material intervention and extreme perspective. Designed objects move between clarity and abstraction without losing their physical weight.

Scale is treated as a material.

Selected work

05 projects

  1. Dior Sauvage Extrait
  2. Talgh
  3. Omega
  4. Cactus Magazine × Dries Van Noten
  5. Nothing Headphone (1)

Research / process 03

Dior Sauvage Extrait

GQ Italia × Dior Beauty / Editorial and brand imagery

01 / Intent

How can the darkness of oud become matter without reducing scent to illustration?

Publication / brand use
GQ Italia, September 2026 / selected imagery used commercially by Dior Beauty
Role
Photographer and director
Approach
Material R&D / practical effects / macro photography

02 / Material proposition

Treat fragrance as geology.

The series treats Sauvage Extrait as geology: dark glass held inside amber strata, raw oud and botanical fragments, as though excavated rather than arranged. Exact previsualisation established the image; an extended period of material research made the amber structure physically possible. Its density, trapped air and uneven translucency were calibrated to carry light, fracture the typography and suspend real ingredients from the fragrance.

Amber strata / physical study
A hand holds the Dior Sauvage Extrait bottle embedded within a translucent amber material study.
Scale and proximity / on set
A camera positioned close above the illuminated amber and oud material set for Dior Sauvage Extrait.

03 / Optical construction

Put the camera inside the material.

At extreme close range, the clear CD base becomes architecture; elsewhere the bottle recedes into fragments of lettering, droplets and shadow. The distortion comes from the encounter between object, material and camera. Trapped air, dragged surfaces and uneven density remain visible throughout.

Material and light / studio capture
Two studio monitors display close studies of illuminated amber, oud and reflected Dior Sauvage Extrait details during the Milan shoot.

04 / Final sequence

Product / monolith / fossil.

The bottle remains unmistakable as scale and material begin to undo it. Three images appeared in GQ Italia’s September 2026 issue; two further images were used commercially by Dior Beauty.

Monument / altered scale
Extreme low-angle photograph of the Dior Sauvage Extrait bottle, enlarging the engraved CD monogram in its clear glass base against cold blue-white light.
Strata / amber and oud
Dior Sauvage Extrait bottle suspended within translucent amber material, real oud and botanical fragments, illuminated from behind.
Fracture / glass and matter
Close photograph of the Dior Sauvage Extrait bottle crossed by translucent amber material, with droplets, distorted lettering and deep-blue glass.
Geometry / engraved glass
Extreme underside view of the Dior Sauvage Extrait bottle, centring the engraved CD monogram and circular base text amid cool light and fine droplets.
Immersion / matter and type
Extreme close-up of the Dior Sauvage Extrait bottle receding into dark amber material, with trapped bubbles, real oud and fragments of silver lettering.

Field note

George Kroustallis creates product and still life photography from London for international brands, publications and collaborators. Sculpted light, precise composition and extreme perspective turn packaging, technology and designed objects into images with weight, tension and material presence.

Scale can collapse or become monumental. Surface, structure and reflection are examined through close observation, unusual perspective, practical intervention and controlled post-production. The result remains legible enough to serve a brand, but authored enough to resist the language of a conventional packshot.

Scope

  • Luxury still life photography
  • Product launch campaigns
  • Watches, jewellery and accessories
  • Beauty, fragrance and skincare
  • Consumer technology and industrial design
  • Mixed-media image systems