Photo Gallery

Every festival generates its own flood of images. Photographers work the arrivals, the stage introductions, the audiences filing in, and the quieter moments backstage, building a visual record of an event that otherwise lives only in memory once the screens go dark.

Event photography is its own discipline. The light is rarely ideal — a dim theater, a harsh red carpet, a crowded reception — and the moments worth catching pass in a second. The best of it feels unposed even when the subject knows the camera is there: a director mid-laugh, a first-time filmmaker watching a crowd react to their work.

The still and the moving image

Photography and film have been intertwined from the start; the movie camera grew directly out of the still one. Production stills, shot on set during filming, serve a practical purpose too, feeding the images that later introduce a film to the public. Long after a festival ends, its photographs are often what survive — the faces, the crowds, and the feel of a particular night that no summary can hold.