CALEMI Bros.

Calemi Bros. supply the ice cream parlours and pastry shops you actually like. Ingredients, semi-finished bases, decoration, and the machines that turn all of it into the thing in the cone. We were brought in to photograph the operation in full, from the workshop where products are developed and tested, to the cold chambers and warehouse where orders are picked, packed in parkas, and sent out to clients.

The gallery moves through the business in the order it works. Hands piping, glazing, plating. Machines doing what machines do. Trays of identical objects that took a real person to make identical. Then the temperature drops, the parkas come on, and the same products head out the door on pallets toward the shops that will sell them. Two atmospheres, one operation, photographed as one continuous story.