The brief: create some new PR & marketing images for a London hotel, showcasing their sports bar and event spaces. The images needed to focus mainly on groups of people enjoying drinks and food for use in various in-house presentation materials – e.g. slide decks for pitch meetings with event clients – and also online in social media posts, etc.

The shoot: the client gathered a range of willing staff members ahead of their own Christmas party at the venue and created some scenarios which we then photographed ‘candidly’ with some light direction here and there to encourage reactions.