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Michele Zucchetti

Still life

2 series · 15 frames · 2024–2025

A glass, a blade of light, a crisp shadow. I photograph products the way I make portraits: the light is designed shot by shot.

Hard light

Still life · 2025 · 11 frames

Cocktails in raking daylight: concrete, crisp shadows and glass. Every drink lit like a portrait.

Red cocktail with mint leaves in a tumbler, crisp shadows on a concrete wall — 01 Red cocktail with mint

Orange highball garnished with celery in a blade of light, beside a glass sphere — 02 Orange highball with celery

Coupe with a pale drink backlit on a concrete ledge — 03 Pale coupe, backlit

Tumbler of red cocktail topped with a crisp wafer, window light on concrete — 04 Red tumbler with wafer

Red cocktail with a green leaf on a rough stone and brick wall — 05 Red cocktail on rough stone

Coupe of red drink cut by diagonal shadows on concrete — 06 Red coupe, diagonal shadow

Coupette with an amber drink on wooden flooring beside a leather Chesterfield sofa — 07 Coupette and Chesterfield

Orange highball with ice on a windowsill, half in light, half in shadow — 08 Highball on the windowsill

Frosted tumbler with a clear drink emerging from darkness — 09 Tumbler in the dark

Glass with a frosted rim on a dark surface, side light — 10 Frosted glass

Collins glass with ice on a striped coaster, reflected on a glossy surface in the dark — 11 Collins and reflection

Bar counter

Still life · 2024 · 4 frames

Reflections on the counter and backlight from the room: four drinks shot in the dark of the bar.

Magenta cocktail with a dark cherry on a glossy counter, pink reflection — 01 Magenta cocktail with cherry

Green cocktail with a citrus rim reflected on a mirrored counter — 02 Green cocktail and reflection

Golden drink crowned with foam, backlit — 03 Foam, backlit

Amber cocktail in a coupe on a coaster, on a dark wooden table — 04 Manhattan on a coaster

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