Michael Kors is always interested in hearing from talented, globally-minded individuals with a passion for fashion.
If you enjoy working in a creative, fast-paced environment, then we would love to hear from you!
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Who You Are:
The E-commerce Photographer, Still Life is responsible for creating elevated, accurate, and consistent product imagery for the Michael Kors global e-commerce business.
This role owns the photographic execution of handbags, small leather goods, footwear, watches, jewelry, eyewear, fragrance, accessories, and other product categories photographed within the in-house studio. Working in close partnership with Still Life Stylists, Art Direction, Studio Operations, Digital Capture, Sample Management, and Post-Production, you will produce imagery that clearly communicates product design, material, construction, scale, and detail.
You bring a refined luxury sensibility to a high-volume production environment. You are highly technical, meticulous, and efficient, with the ability to solve complex lighting and product challenges while maintaining established brand standards.
What You’ll Do
Photograph Still Life E-commerce Imagery: Execute high-quality product photography across handbags, small leather goods, footwear, watches, jewelry, eyewear, fragrance, and accessories.
Own Product Image Quality: Ensure each image accurately represents the product’s color, material, shape, hardware, texture, construction, scale, and key design details.
Lead the Still Life Set: Partner with Still Life Stylists, Digital Technicians, Assistants, and Studio Production to maintain an efficient set and deliver complete shot lists on schedule.
Maintain Brand Consistency: Follow and help refine established lighting, framing, scale, angle, shadow, reflection, and crop standards across all product categories.
Execute Required Image Views: Capture hero images, alternate angles, side and back views, interiors, soles, closures, hardware, material details, and other category-specific product views.
Manage Technical Capture: Maintain accurate exposure, focus, depth of field, color balance, camera position, lens choice, and capture settings throughout production.
Partner with Post-Production: Communicate retouching intent and product-specific considerations clearly, helping ensure that final assets remain accurate, polished, and consistent with the photographed product.
Troubleshoot Product Challenges: Develop effective lighting and capture solutions for reflective hardware, patent leather, metallic surfaces, transparent materials, jewelry, watches, eyewear, and other technically demanding products.
Support Production Targets: Work closely with Studio Operations to achieve daily shot counts while protecting image quality and product accuracy.
Maintain Set Readiness: Help maintain still life bays, camera systems, lighting equipment, grip, surfaces, backgrounds, and capture workstations in production-ready condition.
Contribute to Testing and Innovation: Participate in lighting tests, workflow reviews, new category development, equipment evaluations, and process improvements.
Provide Team Support: Share technical knowledge with junior photographers, assistants, digital technicians, and freelance studio partners as needed.
You’ll Need to Have
4+ years of professional still life, product, or luxury e-commerce photography experience.
A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in handbags, footwear, accessories, jewelry, watches, beauty, fragrance, or similarly detailed consumer products.
Advanced knowledge of studio lighting, composition, color management, depth of field, focus stacking, reflective surfaces, and product-specific capture techniques.
Proficiency in Capture One Pro, Adobe Photoshop, professional camera systems, and studio lighting equipment.
Experience working in a high-volume e-commerce or retail studio with established shot lists, naming conventions, production targets, and quality-control standards.
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