At 101 Constitution, the Capitol appears through the bar windows, behind guests on the rooftop, and reflected in the glass beside a conversation. By night, its illuminated dome gives the portraits a completely different background.
On October 22, 2026, I photographed a party for Lincoln Property Company, a global commercial real estate firm, at 101 Constitution in Washington, DC. The indoor and outdoor rooftop spaces gave the evening several distinct settings, with the building directly across from the U.S. Capitol.
I wanted the photographs to carry that sense of place while giving the people at the event plenty of room in the story. The coverage moves between architecture, conversations, group portraits and the changing light. Each part gives a different view of the same evening.
Working with the architecture
In the bar photograph, the curved white counter fills the foreground and the Capitol sits beyond the windows. Bottles, glassware and flowers hold the middle of the frame. Keeping those layers together shows how the room opens onto Washington, while the person working behind the bar keeps the photograph connected to the event itself.
That is a useful frame to have alongside the rooftop portraits. It shows an indoor space in use, including the design and details that a tight photograph of guests would leave out. It also gives the gallery a quieter moment between photographs with several people facing the camera.
The curved bar, with the Capitol framed by the windows.
The glass outside offered another composition. In the conversation photograph, the dome appears as a reflection behind the guests. I kept that reflection and the terrace in the frame, so the photograph carries the setting without needing everyone to turn toward the skyline.
Giving the guests space in the frame
For the larger group portrait, I kept the people prominent across the foreground, with enough space above them for the warm sky and the Capitol. The recognizable setting is still there when you look at the photograph at a smaller size. So are the faces. That matters for an image that might eventually appear in an event recap, a team update or a guest’s own post.
The conversation frame has a different energy. People turn toward one another, hands are moving, and the expressions belong to the exchange happening in front of me. The terrace and its glass stay visible around them. I wanted that sense of people enjoying the evening to sit alongside the more deliberate group photographs.
Together, those frames let the gallery move between the social atmosphere of the party and the people who gathered for a photograph. There is room for both without asking one image to represent the entire event.
Look closely and you’ll see the dome reflected in the glass.
Staying with the light through the evening
The golden-hour group photograph and the smaller nighttime portrait use the Capitol in very different ways. In the earlier frame, the warm building and sky are part of the color across the whole photograph. In the night portrait, the dark sky clears away much of that surrounding detail. The illuminated dome and small points of light remain behind the four guests.
I kept the people dominant in that nighttime frame, with the landmark recognizable but softer behind them. The result feels connected to the earlier photographs while clearly belonging to a later part of the evening.
Including both gives the gallery a beginning-to-end progression. It also gives the client two distinct visual choices: a warm, expansive rooftop scene and a closer portrait with the atmosphere of Washington after dark.
Building a gallery that several teams can use
A corporate event can involve people with different reasons for needing photographs. The communications team may be preparing a recap. A property team may want to show the venue. Guests may want an image of the colleagues they spent the evening with. The useful coverage is broader than the few photographs that become the opening selection.
For this gallery, the different kinds of frames offer practical options:
- Event communications: A rooftop group image could lead a recap, followed by conversations and a nighttime portrait to carry the reader through the evening.
- Property marketing: The bar, windows and terrace views could help show how the indoor and outdoor spaces connect to their surroundings.
- Social content: A candid exchange or smaller group could give an individual post a clear focal point.
- Internal and guest sharing: Group portraits could support team updates and personal professional posts.
Before an event, I want to know which of those audiences your team needs to reach. That helps us prioritize the coverage, from the setting and key groups to the moments that deserve more room in the final selection.
Where this fits in my corporate work
My corporate and commercial clients have included Google and Uber. Uber hired me to photograph its AfroTech event in Austin, and my event coverage also includes Dîner en Blanc in Washington, DC.
Those projects belong in the same portfolio as 101 Constitution because the work has to hold together at several scales: a setting, a gathering and the individual people within it. The client needs photographs that can stand on their own and a gallery that reads coherently when viewed together.
A client perspective
In a Google review of our wider corporate work, Alesia Sanganoo wrote:
“he’s become a trusted extension of our team.”
That is the kind of working relationship I want to build over time: someone your team can bring into the conversation who understands why the photographs matter after the event is over.
Planning coverage for your corporate event
Tell me where the event is happening, how the evening is structured and who will need the photographs afterward. A property marketing team, an internal communications team and the guests themselves may each need something different from the same coverage. Knowing those priorities helps shape the photographs we plan for.
Get in touch about your event in Washington, DC, the DMV or beyond. Share the date, venue and intended image uses so we can talk through the coverage your team needs.
