Khaybar Winter Camp, AlUla
A visual document of the Khaybar Winter Camp in AlUla, from golden hour deep into the night.
The Khaybar Winter Camp sits on a field of ancient black basalt in the AlUla region, one of the world's more uncompromising landscapes. The brief was to make monumental and intimate coexist in the same frame.
We shot across multiple nights and the transitional hours between, when the sky compresses indigo into burnt orange within minutes. No artificial light rigs: the natural gradient did the heavy work, campfire and tungsten lanterns provided the fill.
The basalt does not accommodate you — the camp was designed to exist inside it on its own terms, and the photography had to understand that before anything else.
The shoot followed the full guest journey: the approach across the lava field, arrival at the illuminated entrance, the tent village after dark, communal fire, and wide aerials that place the camp in its geological context. Signage and wayfinding were documented too, giving the client a complete library for print, editorial, and social.
From the aerial, the tent village is barely a mark on the lava plain. That proportion is the story.
"Ancient lava fields at dusk: a camp photographed as landscape art, where the light does the work that no brief can mandate."






































