Corporate Photography - Portraits in a museum

One of my larger projects this year was to make portraits of the senior management at the Corcoran.  

When I've photographed management at the Corcoran in the past, it's mostly been on an individual basis, making it hard to get a good cohesive group of images.  This time we were able to shoot everyone against the same white seamless with the same lighting, as well as in a space around the gallery.  

This time, I had a dozen different people to photograph over two days.  I brought an assistant, and had help from the Corcoran's communications department in scheduling everyone.  

I've previously written about taking photographs in a museum.  Many of the same considerations of copyright and permissions came into play when making these portraits.  When scouting the different locations, I had a list of approved artwork that could be shown in photographs.  

Corporate Photography - Portraits on a blue backdrop

Earlier this summer, I shot portraits of the staff for The Corcoran's pre-college program.  Some of the people I had already met through my work at The Corcoran, but most I had not.  The portraits were scheduled during a break in training for the summer staff.  I was able to spend enough time with each person to get some of their personality to show through in the images.   

 

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Corporate Photography - Clips

It's always nice when I get to shoot for a very specific layout.  The image in the clip below was shot specifically for the front of this brochure.  Knowing exactly how the image was going to be used was a great help in composing it.  The difficulty in this shoot was to capture three VERY tall pieces of artwork in a long horizontal image.  I shot from a few different angles within the gallery to give the Corcoran's design office options when they lay out the page.  

In the end,  I am not surprised with the image they chose.  The photo prominently features one of the main works on display, and easily shows what they exhibition is about in a clean layout.  

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Corporate Photography - Interior Design Presentations

Photographing critiques at The Corcoran can make for some of my favorite images.  It's a great way to get candid interaction between students and faculty.  It's also interesting for me to hear students and faculty talk about work in areas that I'm not very familiar.  The images below are from an interior design critique at the Corcoran's Georgetown campus.  I don't know very much about interior design, but I've had the chance over the last year or two to get a glimpse of just how much thought goes in to designing or renovating a home or business space.   

Interior Design Critique at The Corcoran

Interior Design Critique at The Corcoran

Corporate Photography - Interior Triptych

The triptych below is from a recent shoot I did for The Corcoran.  The assignment was to shoot the galleries atrium while the images from fotoweek were on display.  The image below is a slightly different view of the south side of the atrium.