Retail and commercial photography for mall operators and developers across the UAE and KSA. The largest body of this work is the Cenomi programme, thirty-two shooting days across Mall of Arabia, Jeddah Park, Yasmin, Haifa, Salam, and the Eastern Province malls, ground and aerial together.
Mall operators and retail developers who need a property documented for leasing, asset management, or a launch campaign, not a single storefront shot for social media.
On a mall the subject is usually the site rather than the architecture: how the approach roads feed it, how the parking resolves, where the entrances actually are, and how the whole thing reads against what surrounds it.
Ground and aerial are covered as one commission, because a retail set that splits between a drone operator and a separate interior photographer rarely looks like the same building.
The usable window at a mall is narrow: the frame that works is the one where the signage and interior lighting have come on but the car park and roads are still legible, roughly twenty minutes at dusk.
The Cenomi Programme
Mall of Arabia, Jeddah Park and Yasmin Mall were each covered ground and aerial for Cenomi in Jeddah, with Haifa Mall and Salam Mall alongside them. In the Eastern Province, Nakheel Mall Dammam, Dhahran Mall and Jubail Mall were covered the same way, and in Riyadh, U Walk and Al Nakheel Mall.
Thirty-two shooting days across the Kingdom, run as a single programme rather than as separate bookings, which is what let the ground and aerial work end up reading as one set instead of several.
Why Ground and Aerial Together
Retail photography usually splits: a drone operator delivers the site overview, a separate photographer delivers the interiors, and the two sets never look like the same building. Covering both means the aerial establishing frame and the shopfront detail are graded together and read as one body of work.
That matters most on a mall specifically, because leasing and asset teams need the site context (parking, approach, scale against the surrounding area) as much as they need the interior.