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Kahlil Ballenger

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Feathers Galleria on the Plaza

A Santa Fe Plaza jewelry gallery with no site and a drifting brand, rebuilt from the desert up. Platform, story and photography.

Client
Feathers Galleria, Santa Fe
Where
Santa Fe Plaza, New Mexico
Year
2026
Role
Brand, web, content direction
Stack
Shopify, WordPress, Brand system, Editorial photography
Status
Delivered
Feathers Galleria on the Plaza — the live site
The new Feathers Galleria site, captured live.2026

Problem

Feathers Galleria sits on the Santa Fe Plaza, one of the most storied retail corridors in the Southwest. The brand inside the walls and the brand online were not the same brand. There was no functioning website, the identity had drifted, and the imagery did not match the caliber of the jewelry, the building, or the neighborhood.

Approach

A full brand, web, and content engagement in one run. We chose a hybrid stack so each job got the right tool, a Shopify catalog for selling and WordPress for long-form storytelling, integrated to read as one gallery. The brand was repositioned around the heritage of the Southwest and the quiet authority of a Plaza gallery.

Build

Wes led a custom desert editorial shoot with models styled to carry the jewelry, working on location so the landscape became part of the brand. In the same engagement we produced every product photo on the new site, rings, knives, heritage pieces, to a consistent gallery standard so the catalog and the campaign finally felt like one thing.

Result

Feathers went from lost to found. The gallery now has a site, a brand, and an image library that speaks the same language as the jewelry inside, and a team with something worth defending for the next chapter.

Taught

The product photos were shot to a written standard the gallery can repeat. New pieces go up looking like the old ones, without calling us.

Result

A working site, a heritage-forward brand, and an image library that matches the address.

From the field

  • Two models in white and denim wearing turquoise jewelry against red rock
    Two models in white and denim wearing turquoise jewelry against red rockPhoto: Wes Sullivan
  • A model in a white dress and boots photographed against red sandstone
    A model in a white dress and boots photographed against red sandstonePhoto: Wes Sullivan
  • A hand wearing a turquoise ring, a hat brim soft in the foreground
    A hand wearing a turquoise ring, a hat brim soft in the foregroundPhoto: Wes Sullivan