Awards Ceremony for Congressmen Camp and Matheson at the Folger Shakespeare Library – DC Photographer

Earlier this year, Congressmen Dave Camp and Jim Matheson received the 2011 Trade and Leadership Investment Award at an awards reception at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.  Here are a few of my favorite images from this corporate event.

Entry hallway of the Folger Shakespeare Library by DC photographer Irene Abdou.

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Executive Portraits & The Spiral Staircase Background

You might remember my post about 4 months ago on how Every Photograph Tells a Story.  Well, I was recently back again creating executive portraits for two more of the same company’s senior staff.  Just love how the spiral staircase background lends such a unique effect to the images, and really makes these execs [...]

Exhibit Opening at the Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center

The last two weeks have been somewhat of a whirlwind for me – engagement sessions, portrait sessions, a family reunion, corporate events for the National Portrait Gallery and Microsoft, featuring the former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, new photography students and more!

So here’s just a little sharing of the love – [...]

Executive Portraits: Every Photograph Tells a Story

I am 100% an on location photographer.  That means that I don’t photograph in controlled studio settings.  Rather, I make my own studio wherever I go!  Why do I do that?  Well, for weddings and special events, I can’t control the location.  And on the family portraiture side, I like to photograph people in [...]

Smithsonian Air & Space Museum: Awards Ceremony and VIP Reception

Here are a few images from a corporate event – an awards ceremony and VIP reception – that I photographed at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC.  Beautiful event…

One of This Week’s Executive Portrait Assignments

I did several executive portrait/corporate headshot assignments this past week. For one of them, I was over at the offices of a tech start-up in Gaithersburg, Maryland creating executive portraits of four members of the leadership team for their new corporate website.  The company’s Marketing Director wanted fun images with personality on a standard [...]

CASE STUDY: Lighting for On Location Corporate Headshots

I recently did a headshot job for an NGO that wanted photographs of their CEO for the annual report, as well as their staff for their website.  Working with their Senior Communications Director, we decided that a location shoot would best capture the personality of the organization, which focuses on raising public awareness and [...]