Women’s International Trophy — Event photography
Photographic coverage of the international wine competition. Event photography: Mainz. The set records the proceedings from above and from close in: the…
The Women's International Trophy, a wine, beer and spirits competition tasted and judged entirely by women. The set records the proceedings from above and from close in: the jury tables and their rows of bottles, the numbered flights ("Jury 51", "Jury 52"), the pouring, the nosing, the note-taking. A blind tasting is a hard subject because the real event stays invisible — it happens in the glass and on the face.
One frame is made before the first guest arrives, from the gallery. Ten white tables stand in two rows on parquet below, each with a line of bottles in black sleeves, spittoons between them, water glasses, red scoring sheets and pens; two beach flags and a lectern at the head of the room, the competition's posters on the walls.
A picture like that exists only in the window between the set-up being finished and the doors opening, and it is the only one that shows the order of a blind tasting: the black sleeves are the reason for the whole event, and once the jury is seated you cannot see them any more. From above, the seating becomes a grid.
- Format
- Competition
- Place
- Mainz
