Often times, I’ll stroll the office and capture someone off-guard which turns out to be the best picture — which conveys real company culture in the best light.
Casual Style For Executive Headshots
What To Wear: I always recommend solids, and its nice to have jewelry to add just a little sparkle. Although this corporate headshot was taken in my studio, it feels like it was shot on-location in a boardroom.
Read MorePhotographing Bruce Ratner in my studio
Photographing Bruce Ratner in my studio I got to know the very real New Yorker beyond the public figure.
Read MoreEnjoyed working with Jack Petersen of Dynasty Financial Partners for Summit Trail Advisors
Enjoyed working with Jack Petersen of Dynasty Financial Partners for Summit Trail Advisors
Read Wall Street Journal full article “On Working With Financial Executives” on wsj.com
Shoutout to the boss ladies disrupting their industries in style!
Shoutout to the boss ladies disrupting their industries in style!
Read MoreCorporate Photoshoot with Pfizer for Future Pharmaceuticals Magazine
Corporate photoshoot with Pfizer executive, Craig Lipset, for the cover of Future Pharmaceuticals magazine at Pfizer headquarters.
Read MoreOn Location Portrait Photographer - Headshots for Data Driven Storytellers
Kelton Global is a research consultancy firm with offices in Silicon Alley, New York City. While having both qualitative and quantitative data analysts on their team, their ultimate goal is to provide data analysis that is readable and easy to interpret by the client. Clients of theirs have included Bloomingdales, Viacom & Target.
This form of data journalism is growing more and more popular in the digital era. Kelton Global's branding is approachable and demonstrates out of the box thinking. As a result, they required corporate headshots that had visual variety and were a little more creative than the average studio shoot. On location portrait photography was the decided route of action; studio portraiture just wouldn't do. Executive Photos NYC Photographer Michael Benabib went on a walk in downtown chelsea with each new employee and photographed them in a variety of unique locations, conveying a unique part of their personalities.
Luckily, Executive Photos was lucky to have a client that understood and appreciated the value of quality images. As written on the Kelton Global blog, Sarah Stone writes, “If imaginative empathy is fueled by great photography, then we can build the empathy habit by looking at powerful images every day. By pausing briefly to consider the feelings, lives and experiences of people we view only from a distance, we practice imaginative empathy, broaden our range of understanding, and become better 21st century marketers.”
All images from our day with Kelton Global will be used on their website. Click here to read more about personal branding and photography for websites as an important marketing tool.
Bob & Harvey Weinstein, corporate portrait for Newsweek Magazine
The Weinstein Company (TWC) is an American mini-major film studio founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005 after the brothers left the then-Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979. They retained ownership of the Dimension Films label of Miramax. It is one of the largest mini-major film studios in North America.
Highest grossing films include Django Unchained, Silver Linings Playbook and The Kings Speech.
Photographed for Newsweek Magazine Copyright 2016 Michael Benabib