Making a medtech visible: its processes, its equipment, its people.

Lattice Medical develops a resorbable implant for breast reconstruction after cancer. When the commission came, the company was preparing a funding round and had no coherent set of images: portraits accumulated over time, shot in different conditions, and nothing showing the laboratories, the processes or the teams at work. The initial request was for a clean portrait of every employee.

A funding round turns on the credibility of a team as much as on the credibility of a technology. What had to become visible was what makes Lattice: the processes, the equipment, and the people who master them. Standardising the portraits was not part of the brief, but it became necessary. The team photographs, more than the individual portraits, were the ones that landed best internally.

Shooting in a cleanroom, in full protective equipment, after safety training. Access was granted everywhere, which moves the difficulty: it was not getting in, it was understanding. Before photographing, I had to grasp each process and what it was for, so as to choose the images that actually explain the work rather than the ones that simply look good in a laboratory.

Website, LinkedIn, internal and external communication, trade shows, press. The assignment went beyond the portraits: a reportage across the head office and the laboratories to build an image library, then product photography. The portraits were made ahead of a funding round that has since closed at 43 million euros. A new campaign is planned for the company's next premises.