In February, the magazine Focus Business commissioned me to photograph the internationally active headhunter Thomas Deininger. With 14 offices in London, L.A., Singapore, Beijing and Mumbai, among others, Thomas Deininger travels a lot. For a 6-page report we had only 1h time with him.
So the preparation was important. Since I was already in Frankfurt one week before because of a job for Allianz Global Investors, I took the opportunity and looked at the location around the office of Deininger Consulting. The nearby Marriott Hotel was an additional location. In addition I clarified with the hotel place and time for a shooting.
The shooting in detail was as follows:
09:00 Setup together with my assistant at Deininger in a conference room
and parallel setup at the Marriott Hotel.
11:24 until 11:26 a.m.
2 min Shooting Motif 1 in the conference room
Change to Marriott Hotel
11:35 until 11:42 a.m.
7 min shooting Motif 2 in the hotel
Change ot the underground car park
11:52 until 12:01
9 min Shooting Motif 3 in the car
12:10 until 12:20
10 min shooting in the foyer and at the window
Afterwards we photographed mood pictures, close-ups, employees without Mr. Deininger and moods at Lufthansa’s First Class Terminal.
In less than 1 hour we could tell a whole story. Because all CEOs have two things in common: They usually don’t want to be photographed and they all have little time.
