Education & Skills Summit 2025
A day at a European summit on education and skills: the plenary under the lights, then the panels, speaker by speaker.
Summit, Brussels, November 2025
The challenge
European summit, Brussels
A European summit on education and skills, with a single stage for the whole day. Speakers follow one another quickly and each of them expects a photo. The scale of the plenary had to come across too.
The shoot
Before the audience arrived, I photographed the welcome details, the tote bags and the lanyards in the summit’s colours. Comms teams often need those for their posts. During the plenary, a wide shot from the back shows the lighting rig and the full room. Then I moved closer to follow the panels speaker by speaker, watching for the gesture that goes with an idea. The pastel backdrop keeps the portraits clean, which matters in conference photography.
What was delivered
- Full gallery, retouched, online.
- For an event, I usually allow for at least 100 edited photos for two hours, 225 for four hours and more than 300 for a full day.
- These are guidelines. Everything can be adapted to your project, and I’m happy to talk it through with you before the shoot.
How the images were used
The photos were for the summit’s partners and for the teams who publish after the day. Everyone finds both the full room and their own speaker.
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