Project: Hiring an experienced professional corporate event photographer  Client: National and international trade associations  Location: Chicago, IL There are several critical criteria to consider when hiring a professional photographer to provide the photography service for a corporate special event; this brief article will cover a few of them including years of experience working in the corporate realm, whether the photographer has references from previous clients and whether the prospective photographer is recommended by one or more venues that host these corporate special events. Although the photography industry seems to be in an ever changing mode, there are certain aspects of working in a corporate environment when providing professional photography services that really have not changed much in the last few years, and for that reason it makes more than good sense to look at the number of years that a photography company or a prospective professional photographer has in working in the environment that the specific corporate special event will have. Another criterion to keep in mind when determining what photography studio or professional corporate event photographer to hire is whether they can provide a readily list of clients for whom the photographers have provided photographic services, something to keep in mind when reviewing the references provided is whether the references are from recent clients and even more specifically if the references they provided were from clients who held their corporate special event at the venue that is being considered as a host venue. Dovetailing with whether the prospective professional photographer can provide references from former clients, is whether the photographers or photography studio can also provide references from the venue were the corporate special event is to be held. Written by: The professional photographers of Caught in the Moment Photography providing special event photographic services for corporate special events in and around the greater Chicago, IL., area.