Brands, shot like art.
Sizzle reel · footage to come
01 What We Do
Names, marks, packaging, the whole shelf. We built these three from nothing, so every mistake was made on our own money.
CLSICS · Tiny Fires · YNG STAR
We decide what the thing is before anybody picks up a camera. Then we hold that line through casting, the shoot and the edit, so what ships is what was promised.
Brixton · G-SHOCK · EYEdress
Crews, permits, call sheets, gear lists, the truck. Festival stages to studio sets, including the part where somebody has to find a forklift at 6am.
Music Fest · Fanvue · CLSICS · Lil Helper · Stoned Ones
02 Selected Work
03 Worked With
Some of the people who said yes.
04 About
The Trautt brothers' dad opened a San Diego production house in 1996. Travis grew up in the photo studio. Hello Apollo isn't a first attempt. It's the second generation, with its own name on the door.
Travis Trautt / Seattle
Travis photographed for KEXP: roughly 6,165 frames since 2019, including a 72-photo King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard session. He shot The Stranger's 61-photo Bumbershoot gallery alone. He led social creative at Microsoft for Windows, Surface, Microsoft 365, Bing and Edge. He shoots 102 megapixel digital, 6x7 film, and a Polaroid passport camera loaded with film nobody makes anymore.
BB Bastidas / Oceanside + New York
BB paints. Murals, canvases, decks, and a run of shows from the Oceanside Museum of Art to Paris, London, Amsterdam, Sydney and Tokyo. Work for FX Networks, Coachella, American Horror Story, adidas and Thrasher. Every mural starts as a painting he already made. He owns two skate companies, which is two more than most art directors.
Mat Trautt / San Diego
Mat runs it. He builds consumer brands from the factory floor up, the name and the mark and the package and the shelf, and has launched several off a plant he owns. He's the one who makes the schedule real. Every studio needs somebody whose favorite word is “when.”
