Photographer Treated Heineken’s New Ad Campaign Like a Documentary Photo Project
PetaPixel | Photography and Camera News [Unofficial]
April 13, 2026
Amstel hired Spanish photographer Javier Tles for a very unusual type of advertising campaign for Heineken beer. Rather than set up a staged photoshoot, as is par for the course, Tles covertly captured photos of real people enjoying drinks with their actual friends, approaching the ad campaign more like a documentary photography project than a commercial project. It is a very different type of advertising campaign, especially in the era of AI-generated ads.
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