The TEDx talks came to Bollington a couple of weeks ago, and I was asked along to record the event by the organisers. My job was two-fold. Firstly, I was to create a record of the day’s events, and to create images that could be used for PR after the event and for marketing use…
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Event photography, like events themselves, comes in all shapes and sizes. One day I’m photographing a keynote speaker addressing an audience of hundreds, the next I’m covering a business breakfast with a couple of dozen people present. Locations vary widely too. The majority of business events take place in hotels and conference rooms. Bars and…
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I’ve been doing a lot of event photography in the past few months, of all shapes and sizes, in all kinds of different places. In fact, that describes the past fifteen years of shooting events! They’re a challenge, there’s no doubt about that. But that’s also what makes them so great to do. Every time,…
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Conference photography is a specific type of event photography, and something that I’ve covered many times over the years. I don’t think I’ve really written about it though, so thought I’d use a commission from a couple of months ago to set the record straight and give some insight into how I approach covering conferences,…
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Last Friday I was back in the dinner jacket, photographing the first Awards evening of the year – the Greater Manchester Business Awards. It was a great evening at a venue I’ve visited as a tourist but not worked at before – the Imperial War Museum North. It’s been on my hit list for a…
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