Event Photography

2022 TD Five Boro Bike Tour - Sponsored By Bike NYC

Combining My Two Favorites

I finally got to photograph the world famous TD Five Boro Bike Tour after last year was rained out and the prior year was cancelled due to COVID. Photographing the Bike Tour was an amazing experience combing my two passions, photography and bikes. I worked very closely with Bike NY developing a strategy of how we would efficiently and effectively document the 40 mile ride touching every borough.

How to photograph a large scale NYC event involves planning and some amount of prior experience.

This year, several highly skilled professional photographers were selected to photograph the 2022 bike tour. While there are several dozen photographers capturing the tour, the majority are focussing on capturing photos of just the riders. My goal was to capture the city with rides in it. To tell the story of the day and make the city, New York City, the main character.

Each photographer was assigned a specific section or borough, along with a designated list of key photos to capture. Some of the photographers were assigned specific spots, which they’d walk, while other were assigned large areas only doable by bike. My list was originally just Brooklyn, but it was quickly expanded to the whole route with a focus on Brooklyn. Yes, I biked the whole tour (42 miles and plus some) with my cameras.

Client: Bike New York

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Celebrating Google's WAYMO in NYC

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Event Photography Tells A Story

New York City is the most densely populated city in the country, with bustling avenues, unconventional roads, complex intersections, even more complex drivers, and constantly changing traffic parterns. Google’s self driving division, WAYMO, designed their driver interface to handle these types of complex and dynamic activities that define city driving. The vehicles, which are manually operated by autonomous specialists at all times, aim to scale self driving cars by learning.

As a NYC Event Photographer it is my job to capture the purpose of the event, the energy of the room, and the details that made the event memorable.

Tonight’s event celebrated the end of six months of successfully testing WAYMO in NYC. Several individuals from the NYC Department of Transportation were in attendance, transportation experts, and the Mayor, Eric Adams. When photographing events I always photograph event signage with branding, guests mingling, and guest having a great time (laughing, smile, speaking with their hands)

Client: Waymo

Venue: Bowery Hotel

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Brooklyn STEAM Center x WAYMO - Autonomous Vehicles in NYC

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The Brooklyn STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) Center is New York City's first public school program to be co-located within a business environment. The center is nestled within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 1,000,000 square-foot property which provides students with access to over 400 businesses and a 300-acre industrial park as an additional feature of their learning environment. Scholars attend the STEAM center in a shared instructional model exposing them to all different types of businesses.

Today, WAYMO, Google’s self driving car division showed the students their self driving Jaguar SUV and explained how autonomous driving is being researched, engineered, and implemented in the real world. The students asked great questions about the technology behind the car to different potential benefits of autonomous vehicles vs self driven cars. Considering many New Yorkers do not own a car, let alone have their driver's license the students asked great questions.

Photographing School Education Photos

Whether you are launching a rebranding effort, designing marketing materials, highlighting a program, or beginning a national ad campaign, I can help you take your imagery to the next level with world-class photography. It’s easy to photograph students with blank stares of boredom on their faces. It’s another to capture photos of students engaged, actively learning, and excited. Waiting for the perfect moment when student giggles, smirks, raises his or her hand, and speaks with emphasis is what I look for as a professional education photographer.

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Celebration of Life | NYC Dinner Event Photographer

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Photographing at Le Bernardin by chef Eric Ripert is always in honor. Last time I photographed a dinner at this world famous 5 star rated Manhattan, NY restaurant was in 2017 for a closed door, off the record event with former President George W. Bush. Tonight’s dinner was for a global consulting and finance firm to celebrate the world opening up post-COVID, surviving the past 20 months of tumultuous times, and coming together to see one another again.

Tips for hiring a NYC Event Photographer for your dinner.

Photos of people eating (shoveling food in to their mouths) makes for awkward photos. The best way to have your evening photographed is to have your photographer photograph the before dinner, the after dinner, and the moments in between. For tonight’s dinner event, I photographed the reception, parts of the dinner, a musical guests, and several small speeches.

Your photographer should not distract guests.

Whether it’s myself, or my team of professional photographers out on an assignment, we are constantly scanning the room looking for the next photo. We wait for people to smile, to laugh, to talk with their hands, and to embrace one another. These moments make great photographs, and tell the story of your event as a fun time.

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Manhattan's Newest Food Hall | Professional NYC Corporate Event Photographer

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Photographing corporate events is an exciting experience for any NYC Event Photographer, no matter the occasion!

For tonight’s event, we photographed the soft opening of a new food hall for Boston Properties and their Marketing agency partner Bullfrog + BAUM. Our goals were to highlight the space, the vendors, and the guest’s reactions. The new food hall in located on Manhattan’s East side on 51st and Lexington. The space will be open to both the public and the thousands of employees working inside of the newly renovated building.

As Event Photographers it is our goal to photograph the 5 Ws: Who, What, When, Where, and Why of an event.

The 5 W’s, as I was taught in junior high school english, simply ask “What’s the point”. For an event photographer I need to answer the Who, What, When, Where, and Why the event occurred in each of my photos singularly and as a group. It is up to the client, the person hiring me, to decide how they will use our photos to tell a story or multiple stories.

  • Who attended the event?

  • Where was the event?

  • Why was this event important?

  • What was the event about?

  • When did the event occur? (Evening, Day, Fall, Summer)

John and May's Weehawken, New Jersey Engagement Party

Dinner, Celebration, and an amazing view of New York City!

John and May’s engagement party celebration was just that, a celebration! Both John and May are Greek, and upon discussing photographing their engagement party, they assured me their party was going to be a party. From their amazing family and friends, to their entertainment, and the view, everything was just perfect.

Photographing their engagement party was a real honor, after we had captured their secret proposal several weeks prior in Manhattan, NY. We are super excited for this great couple.

Venue: Chart House