Andrei Kovalev
Wine portfolio by Andrei Kovalev: a man in a dark coat stands below a towering snow-capped peak.

Wine portfolio

For years I have travelled to some of the world’s most acclaimed wineries to take pictures for magazines and winemakers.

My long collaboration with Simple Wine News magazine produced dozens of covers from some of the world’s most famous wineries →

Jean-Louis Chave at the wheel of a car in warm evening light.

Jean-Louis Chave

On the cover of Wine Spectator, November 2019

Leonardo Frescobaldi in a tan jacket and green polo sits at a wooden table.

The Makers

Honest, intimate portraits of winemakers

A grinning Burgundy winemaker in a puffer gilet between studio lights, in black and white.

The Listeners

A personal series of portraits of some of Burgundy’s most renowned winemakers

The Coulon family of Domaine Beaurenard on an old jeep in their vineyard.
Cover story

Southern Rhône for Wine Spectator

In August 2018, I went to the Southern Rhône valley in France to photograph some of the region’s most renowned winemakers for a Wine Spectator cover and feature. See the whole series.

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I also help winemakers and other drinks producers tell their stories in strong images, still and moving.

Jimsher Chkhaidze in a long coat stands on a rocky slope, mountains behind him.
Advertising campaign

Jimsher

In September 2017, my team and I made a campaign for Jimsher, the first producer of Georgian whisky. Take the trip to Mount Kazbegi.

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My dream project is a book on a wine region or a country: stories about wine, told through the people who love it and are bound up with it. Beautiful portraits, fine-art quality, touching stories.
If you represent a wine board or association, or you are a producer or an importer and would like to make such an art project, write to me: andrei@ckovalev.com