Replicates is a photo and video studio on Kloosterstraat, in the old south of Antwerp. We work for jewellers, fashion labels, the port, design shops and the agencies who represent them.
Half our week is very small: a stone, a ring, a watch face, shot on black velvet with points of light. The other half is very large: cranes, ships and warehouses the size of a village.
Fashion here is serious. Graduates of the academy come to us for their first lookbook, and some of them still come back ten years later.
Stills and film come from one crew and one colour plan, so a catalogue, a shop window and a short film all look like the same brand.