Black Excellence Alumni Event

A reception is a bad place to get a real answer. People are holding a drink, the room is loud, and nobody wants to be cornered by a camera. The Foundation needed alumni testimony that could carry a giving ask, captured on a night built for mingling rather than interviews.

So we built a room inside the room. An orange drape, two lights, and a camera set up in the museum, close enough to the reception that guests could step in between conversations and be gone in five minutes. Portraits for the Foundation's own use, testimony for the film, and no one pulled away from the evening for long.

Cut vertical first for social, captioned throughout, and closing on a giving QR code.

Reception coverage, the studio as it was built, and the portraits that came out of it.