Photo 2.0. - New Website

I'm officially announcing my new website on my new domain, praguephotographer.org. One of the casualties of the Pandemic was the total inability to photograph people. Since that's 95% of my photography, the business suffered. Now I'm starting anew as I'm based in Prague again. However, I am still available to photograph events, weddings, and wedding portraits anywhere in Europe. Give me a shout out!

Buddha and the Art of Event Photography

One of the nice things about being a professional event photographer is the wide variety of venues I get to work.  I've photographed cabaret dinner shows in 19th century industrial plants in Berlin and Chinese dancers in Prague's Old Town Square.  Each event I photograph has a new stage set for an evening's interaction of like-minded professionals.

Recently I photographed an event for Qatar Airways in Prague at the Siddharta Cafe in the Buddha Bar Hotel, Prague.  The cargo services division was expanding its scope to include Prague, so an elegant soiree was in order.  A fine international crowd was present, and the festivities began with cocktails and canapés in the sumptuous Siddharta Cafe.  A DJ spun silky grooves with an electronic soft jazz touch.  It made me wonder if the Buddha Lounge Bar music I've heard was composed here.

Buddhas are everything and everywhere  here.  Back-lights and colored statues accentuated the mood of the evening, but what intrigues me most about my event gigs are the odd details.  In a New Age/East-West modern cafe like this, one would expect maybe a massage or an exotic tea/elixir as a welcome.  Instead, a caricature artist plunked his easel down and started drawing guests.  Bushy beards grew to monstrous proportions and shy ladies with giant eyes peered out of his blank canvas.

The artist continued sketching and passing out portraits to happy guests throughout the evening, and I enjoyed my position as one of the blue collar artists plying his trade at the party.

Craig Robinson is a professional photographer with nearly 20 years of experience photographing people and events on two continents.  Contact the photographer today for a quote for your next event in Prague, Berlin or beyond...

Lux Forum Part Deux: Talking Nukes in Prague

Last December I covered a major event in Prague: The Round Table of the International Luxembourg Forum "Perspectives for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation".  While this title is quite a mouthful (and probably in need of a clever acronym of some sort), I simply call it the Lux Forum for brevity. The first time I covered the Lux Forum—which meets annually—was in Berlin a few years ago.  The forum meets yearly in different cities in Europe to discuss the nuclear threat on a global scale, or as I referred to it the first time I photographed the Forum in Berlin, ‘Keeping the Nukes Out of the Hands of the Real Bastards.’

Russian, American, Israeli—and a host of other global experts and prominent public figures—got together to discuss the current state of nuclear arms and the nations which possess them.  Each year, the forum members draft documents and declarations which will be distributed to top tier politicians around the world.

Many of the familiar faces from the last Forum I covered were present in Prague.  While I confess that I don’t follow nuclear news that closely (because it would probably twist my stomach), I immediately recognized the name of one of the new additions to the Forum this year:  Hans Blix, the famous UN weapons inspector who reported the state of Iraq’s WMD load to be nil.  The rest is history, as George W. Bush decided to invade Iraq anyway and ramp up the invasion of the Middle East, as cowboy Presidents are wont to do.

I was relieved to see that Mr. Blix had survived a fictitious visit to former North Korean Dictator-and-puppet Kim Jong IL—and his nasty shark tank (Team America: World Police).

For more pictures of my event coverage in Prague, please see the slideshow at the official site of the Luxembourg Forum.

For more information and price quotes on professional event photography in Berlin, Prague and the whole of Europe, please contact me today.