The Journal
Most conference photography gets used once, for a post-event round-up, and then forgotten. That's a waste — the images you commission this year are the ones that sell next year's event, and a little planning makes them work far harder.
Birmingham has more large conference space than anywhere in the UK outside London, and each venue photographs quite differently. After fifteen years working across most of them, here's what I've learned about the rooms themselves.
A conference is a long day with a fixed schedule, several rooms running at once and a marketing team who need images for next year's promotion. Covering it well is mostly a planning exercise.