Featured Project · Commercial Real Estate

JLL

Who
JLL, a global commercial real estate organization whose senior executives and Board of Directors require polished, current and consistently executed imagery.
Goal
My goal was to create authoritative executive and group portraits within the limited time available to senior leaders and board members.
Outcome
I have built an ongoing relationship with JLL’s Board, including a formal group portrait planned for twenty minutes and successfully completed in eight.

Since 2018 | Commercial Real Estate | Events, Executive Branding, Group Portraits, Headshots

Another introduction through the tennis club led to an internal event assignment, and it was my composure and instincts on the day, as much as the final images, that earned the next call. JLL brought me in to create portraits framed from the head to just above the knees and headshots for senior executives during a full day of meetings, and the results were strong enough that the Assistant to the Board of Directors now brings me back regularly to keep the Board's portraits current.

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I was also commissioned to photograph the CEO and Chairman of the Board in conversation over coffee, creating more informal images for JLL’s website.

The Chairman of the Board and CEO of a very large global commercial real estate firm pause for a posed discussion over fake information on a laptop screen. Matt and team had just thirty minutes to create a series of lifestyle images and 3/4 length portraits of these incredibly business executives. They finished in 20 minutes, much to everybody's delight. @mcguirephoto assist
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In 2022, that trust was put to the test. I flew to New York for JLL’s quarterly Board meeting, where I was given twenty minutes to capture a formal group portrait of the full Board. Through meticulous advance preparation, I completed it in eight, a reminder that at the highest levels, creating a strong portrait and respecting people’s time require the same care and preparation.

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