The architectural geometry of the ZESS building offers a sophisticated backdrop for corporate portraiture. While the goal is keeping the location consistent and recognisable across individual images, the repetition of angles risks becoming formulaic rather than cohesive – a tension that compounds as the staff roster at Center for Sensor Systems (ZESS) grows.
Action sports photographer Blake Pickup recently observed that photographers often retire a location too early, moving on after a single strong frame. While the realm of staff portraits is arguably less glamorous than his BMX shots, the principle holds; the same corridors and structural lines must yield variety for the twentieth subject as readily as they did for the first. It becomes an engaging exercise in visual perception to make yet another pass, identifying the angles that were always present but perhaps not immediately legible. The challenge is to treat the familiar as if it were entirely new, finding fresh depth in the same glass and concrete.
