Conference Photography

Police Chiefs Joint Summit 2022.

I was working in London last week as the official photographer at the NPCC/ APCC (The National Police Chiefs’ Council and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners) Joint Summit Conference, which took place over 2 days at the QEII Conference Centre in Westminster.

It is a high powered event featuring not just senior police leaders from forces around the country but high profile political figures including the Home Secretary Suella Braverman and the Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper expertly chaired by BBC presenter Clive Myrie.

Key note speakers, break outs, debates, networking sessions and exhibition spaces as well as an evening reception there was a lot of photography for me to cover. With serious topics being discussed from local policing to counter terrorism, I needed to be discreet, professional and unobtrusive while still capturing high quality images of all the speakers and delegates.

I was also regularly uploading images ‘live’ throughout the conference to the communications/ press teams who were keeping up a constant stream of social media posts.

This is the fifth year that I have covered the event and here is what the organiser has to say about my work.

‘It has been a pleasure to work with Simon at our Policing Partnership Summit over a number of years. His photos are of excellent quality and his agile and pragmatic approach has helped us to get more profile for the event, both on social media and in the national press’

Jamie Hurst – Head of Communications at the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners

See more of my conference photography in the gallery at: https://www.simonhadley.co.uk/gallery/conference-photography/