Last Rites – Photography
Four years of cocktail photography for an adventure-themed bar in San Francisco — dark, dramatic lighting built into the bar's visual world.
Last Rites is a rum bar in San Francisco built around a specific fiction: you’ve found your way into a tropical jungle outpost with a questionable past. The brand runs deep — vintage pulp adventure novels, crashed planes, dramatic lighting, a whole visual universe. I’ve handled the bar’s creative output for four years, from the cocktail menu system to event marketing. The photography is part of that same register.
COCKTAIL PHOTOS
Every shot was done on location at the bar, leaning into what the space already gives you: low light, texture, shadow. The goal was photography that looked like it belonged in the world Last Rites had built — moody and specific, not studio-clean. This is a sample of my work capturing the cocktail program.
Site Photography
The bar interior is its own prop: metal airplane fuselage, hanging vines, cargo netting, trouble bulbs buried in foliage, 9ft stone idols. The site photography documents that environment using the same approach as the cocktail work — practical light sources, selective use of flash, and let the atmosphere do most of the work.
