The Frankfurter Gala – Kameha Suite — Event photography
Event photography of a THE FRANKFURTER gala at the Kameha Suite. A gala by THE FRANKFURTER at the Kameha Suite.
A gala by THE FRANKFURTER at the Kameha Suite. The hall is a former bank with a double staircase, columns and a gallery, lit in pink and violet; a fashion show runs on the stairs while the audience stands packed on the ground floor. Plus the sponsor wall with Bentley, Hublot and Hästens, an interview in front of it, finger food on a tray, and the lit entrance with its wordmark.
A hall with this much character of its own quickly dominates every frame — the job is to let the guests hold their own in front of it. The main frame solves it through the axis: the camera stands centered on the ground floor, the staircase runs up symmetrically, the screen hangs exactly in the middle, and the guests form a dark bank of heads and shoulders in the foreground. The architecture gets the upper half, the people the lower, and neither takes anything from the other.
Shot from the side, the same subject would be a stairwell with colored light. In a room like this, symmetry is not a stylistic device but the only ordering principle that can hold up against sixty meters of stucco and two hundred people.
Something happens with the color that has to be known in advance. Pink and violet washes on pale sandstone color not only the wall but every face in front of it. In the wide shot that stays, because it is the evening. For the interview and the sponsor wall, though, the spot is sought where white light comes back off the surface — otherwise every brand on that wall has a pink cast, and that is precisely the picture a partner must not receive.
And the detail on the tray stays in the set. It is the only frame in which you can see that this gala was also catered.
- Location
- Kameha Suite
