I was one of four official photographers at the ITU Telecom World 2018 conference and expo at the Durban ICC. Even though the event took place over three days, I was hired to shoot for six days because of all the pre-events and planning meetings. It was an intense couple of days when the main event was on, the health app on my phone said I walked an average of 6km every day while carrying a 25kg equipment bag. The brief was to capture as many natural and unposed photos as possible, and to make sure all VIP’s were photographed at every meeting. After each session I had to upload a selection to the official Flickr account for journalists all over the world to download. The president Cyril Ramaphosa spoke at the opening ceremony, and the minister of telecommunications Siyabonga Cele was there throughout the conference. I think he must have grown tired of seeing me with my camera’s everywhere he went.

Thanks to Ledia from ITU for calling me all the way from Geneva to chat and hire me for the event, and thanks to the boys from Ocean Driven Media for shooting with me. I’ll recommend you guys again any time.

Well done if you’ve made it all the way down to the end! That was a lot of photos, 301 to be exact.