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Corporate event coverage · Chicago
In short
Corporate event coverage in Chicago starts at $950: 4 hours on location with a photographer who works in Chicago, and 150 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 5 business days.
Why choose Corporate event coverage in Chicago?
Chicago hosts more large trade shows and conferences than any other American city, and the brief that comes with that is specific: the marketing team needs usable images while the event is still happening, not a gallery the following week. A preview set delivered the same afternoon is the difference between an event that is posted about and an event that is archived, and it is the thing most event photography quietly fails to provide.
Worth knowing about Chicago
McCormick Place and most large Chicago venues operate under exclusive vendor arrangements and their own access rules, and an outside photographer usually needs to be credentialed in advance through the event organiser rather than simply arriving with a badge. That is confirmed with the venue at booking, because discovering it at the loading dock on the morning of a keynote is an expensive way to learn it.
What does the session in Chicago look like?
- The keynote room
- Stage, speaker and — the frame most often missed — the audience from behind the speaker, which is what proves attendance.
- Breakouts and networking floors
- Where the candid coverage comes from, and where sponsor activations actually happen.
- The empty room before doors
- The set-up shot the venue and the production company both want and nobody remembers to ask for.
What does corporate event coverage in Chicago include?
- 150+ retouched photographs
- Four hours of coverage
- Keynotes, breakouts, networking and the room itself
- Same-day preview set of 20 images for social
- Full gallery within 5 business days
- Commercial licence for company use
FAQ — Corporate event coverage in Chicago
Can we get photographs during the event?
Yes. A preview set of around twenty edited images is delivered the same day, usually within a few hours of the keynote, which is what a social team actually needs. The full gallery of 150 or more follows within five business days.
Will you photograph our sponsors?
Yes, and it should be on the brief explicitly. Sponsor logos, branded step-and-repeats, signage and booth activity are what gets reported back to the people who paid for them, and they are the easiest thing at an event to under-shoot precisely because nothing is happening in front of them.