Art Directing Professional Photo Shoots

As an Art Director, I also had the chance to orchestrate multiple photo shoots. Because of my photography background and my enthusiasm to work with people, I have always been very interested to lend a hand when it came to photo shoots. I found myself either behind the lense myself or directing photo shoots since early on in my design career did. Besides in-house smaller scale product photography, I have directed multiple professional portrait and seminar photo shoots. Here are 3 different events where I was in charge of planning and directing the photo shoots, all under very tight deadlines.

September 2016 Hotel Monaco Seminar

The Challenge: Capture the seminar in pictures while focusing on specific Editors in discussion and pulling them out of the room during the course of the meeting for individual portrait shots.

Art Direction: Susanne Clark | Photography: Brendan Finnerty and Jonathan Kilberth | Company: Agora Financial

November 2016 Company Event

The Challenge: Design and produce a commemorative photo booth banner 3 days prior to the event. Work with the photographer to gather and position employees for group portraits.

Art Direction and Banner Design: Susanne Clark | Photography: Michael Stavrinos

April 2018 Editors Meeting

The Challenge: Capture professional portraits and group shots of editors talking to each other during an editors meeting. Don’t capture front profiles but rather side profiles that are professional but candid. Hire and direct photographer to the editors that needed pictures taken.

Art Direction: Susanne Clark | Photography: Brendan Finnerty | Company: Seven Figure Publishing