// WorldwideSuperyacht photographer, Monaco.
Port Hercule, Cap d’Ail and the show week in September. Where the yacht and the buyer are in the same square kilometre for four days.
Send an enquiry →Four days that decide a whole season
The Monaco Yacht Show is the only week in the year when a hundred large yachts and most of the people who buy and charter them are in the same harbour at the same time. For a broker it is the densest four days of the calendar, and for photography it is the hardest, because every quay is crowded, the light is flat at midday and nobody has an empty deck.
So the work splits in two. The show itself is reportage, shot early in the morning before the gates open and in the last hour of light when the crowd thins, plus the meetings and the deck parties that are the real reason your clients are there. The yacht herself is photographed the week before, while she is still at Cap d’Ail or in Antibes and her deck is her own. Trying to do both during the show gets you neither.
What comes off the show
Exterior and aerial
Alongside, at anchor and under way. Drone work only once the captain has cleared it.
More →PhotoInterior
Saloon, cabins and crew areas with the light that is there. No lighting rig on the teak.
More →FilmWalkthrough
A tour a charter client can watch before they enquire, plus running shots.
More →MarketingWhere it goes
Central agency pack, charter presentation, website and social.
More →How the week runs
The brief
What the images are for: a sale, a charter season or the yard. That decides everything else.
Aboard
Half a day to a day, in the order the crew can live with. I bring almost nothing with me.
Delivery
Edited, cropped for every portal, position data stripped out of every file.
Show week in September?
Tell me briefly which boats and which water it is about. You get a personal answer with a proposal and a fixed price.
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