Idea-driven content that grow your business
Forte1 is a visual production studio founded by Norman Kasiri, specialising in cinematic videography and high-end commercial and food photography. But here’s our twist: before we fell in love with cameras, we spent over a decade in the trenches of top-tier global agencies like Ogilvy, TBWA, Profero and Publicis, building award-winning websites and digital campaigns for brands like Intel, Nokia, Epson, and Lenovo.
Today, we’ve pivoted that big-agency discipline into our true passion—visual storytelling. We’ve traded corporate jargon for sharp lenses, but we kept the strategic brains. We don't believe in the stiff, old-school agency hierarchy. Instead, we love a relaxed, highly collaborative, and iterative working style. We treat our clients as partners, brainstorming and tweaking together because that's exactly how the best creative work happens.
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Having cut our teeth at global agencies like Ogilvy, TBWA Profero and Publicis, we spent over a decade launching digital campaigns and building enterprise platforms for brands like Intel. Nokia, Epson and Lenovo.
Today, we’ve channeled that big-brand discipline into Forte1—a nimble visual studio specializing in cinematic videography and commercial photography. We’ve stripped away the corporate fluff and layers of agency bureaucracy to give our partners exactly what they need: world-class strategic eyes, stunning visual execution, and a direct, collaborative working relationship. No egos, no complex jargon—just sharp imagery engineered to elevate your brand.
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We Strategise Every Shoot: We don’t just turn up and start clicking. Because of our digital design background, we look at your marketing goals, your website layout, and your social feeds first. We shoot with your final layouts in mind, ensuring every image fits perfectly where your marketing team needs it.
Highly Collaborative, Zero Bureaucracy: We don’t hide behind account managers or rigid structures. We prefer an iterative, conversational workflow. We treat you as a partner, bouncing ideas back and forth and refining our direction together to make sure the final result hits the bullseye.
Agile and Relentlessly Reliable: We bring the exact same corporate discipline, strict timelines, and high standards we used for global brands, but pack it into a nimble, responsive boutique setup. You get agency-level execution without the agency overhead or slow response times.
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We partner with brands, agencies, and organizations that value high-quality visuals but care even more about how those visuals perform in the real world.
Typically, our clients fall into three camps:
Corporate & Event Marketers who are tired of getting pretty but unusable event photos, and need a creator who understands website layouts, social media crops, and ROI.
Growing Brands & F&B Concepts looking for premium, commercial-grade food and lifestyle photography that makes their products look as good as they taste.
Agencies & Internal Creative Teams who need a reliable, agile production partner who can speak their language, hit tight deadlines, and execute complex briefs without the big-agency ego.
If you appreciate a collaborative, no-nonsense working style and want your visual content to actually drive your business goals, we’ll get along just fine.
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What you actually get when you hire us
Most event photographers know how to use a camera. But because our roots are in web design and agency marketing, we look at your event through a completely different lens. Here is why partnering with us just makes sense:
Event video instincts, applied to photography
You might notice our photography portfolio leans heavily into commercial food styling—but don't let that fool you. We've spent years behind the camera capturing live, fast-moving events on video. The high-stakes instincts are exactly the same: reading a room, predicting key split-second moments, and managing venue logistics under pressure. We are simply bringing those exact same live-event reflexes to a different medium.
Commercial-grade detail shots
Thanks to our background in professional food and product photography, we don't just take standard snapshots of the venue. We treat your sponsor booths, brand activations, and catering like a high-end commercial set. You’ll get premium visual assets that make your event look expensive and help you lock down sponsors for next year.
Big-agency brains, without the big-agency ego
You get the exact same strategic thinking, reliability, and standards that we delivered for Intel and Lenovo, but with the agility, direct communication, and sensible pricing of a boutique studio. No middleman, no games—just great work.
Zero-stress collaboration
We’re easygoing, but we take your objectives seriously. We check our egos at the door, align with your marketing team early, and keep the communication flowing so that the final delivery is exactly what you envisioned.
