Why corporate event in Frankfurt
As a corporate event photographer in Frankfurt, you rarely work in a plain hall. Conferences here happen on tower floors, in riverside hotel ballrooms and on terraces facing the skyline, which puts glass behind almost every speaker. In daylight that bright window makes both the stage and the audience look dim, so before the day we agree whether the blinds come down or the lectern stands side-on to the façade. After dark the relationship reverses: the lit skyline becomes the backdrop, but only for someone who works with a steady hand and slower exposures. The guest list shapes the job as well. International delegates, several languages and board members with ten spare minutes mean the people who must appear in the gallery are listed in advance, so nobody discovers afterwards that the chair was never photographed.
Frankfurt’s corporate calendar is busiest in autumn and in December, when Christmas parties crowd onto a handful of Thursdays and Fridays. Those evenings go early, and three to four months’ notice is sensible rather than cautious. Check as well whether your date lands in a major fair week, when hotels and function rooms are scarce and expensive. Group photographs belong before dinner, while everybody is still standing and jackets are still on.
How the session runs
A week before, we receive the running order and the list of shots that cannot be missed. On the day we arrive half an hour before doors to photograph the empty rooms with branding, stage and tables. During the talks we move between the stage and the audience without crossing sightlines, and use the breaks for networking frames. Guests wearing a different-coloured lanyard or sticker are kept out of the pictures. About two-thirds of the way through, a first selection goes to your communications team so posts can go out that evening, and the full gallery of 250 edited photographs follows within five working days.
What’s included
- 250 edited photographs
- Five hours of coverage against a running order
- Stage, audience, networking and the venue itself
- A first set for social media the same evening
- The full gallery within five working days






