Most photographers learn about executives by photographing them. I learned by hiring them.

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I have spent fifteen years behind a camera and the last several co-founding a restaurant company and running its people function as Chief HR Officer. That means I know both halves of the thing you are buying: how to light a face, and why the VP of Sales is dreading this and how to get her out of that headspace in ninety seconds.

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I am Hans Alcindor. I photograph corporate leadership, teams, and events in New York, Nashville, Miami, and Los Angeles.

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Before and alongside that, I earned a master's in Social-Organizational Psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University, studied at NYU, and co-founded Steam Boys, where I serve as Chief HR Officer. I have written the job descriptions, run the onboarding, and looked at a team page full of mismatched photos and thought: someone should fix that.

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Why this matters to you, specifically:

Your executives will not fight me. The reason senior people photograph badly is almost never lighting. It is that they feel evaluated. I have spent years managing exactly that dynamic from the other side of the desk, and it turns out the skill transfers directly. Most people are done in under ten minutes and surprised it was painless.

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I understand what the photos are for. Employer brand, investor decks, the leadership page, the press release, the recruiting funnel. I have been the internal stakeholder waiting on these assets, so I shoot and deliver with that end use in mind rather than handing over a folder and wishing you luck.

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I know what your calendar can absorb. A seventy-five person headshot day is an operations problem before it is a creative one. Scheduling template, room setup, ten minutes per person, consistent results across the entire org chart, delivered on a date you can promise your team.

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What working together actually looks like: 

I arrive early and set up out of your way. Your people come through on a schedule that costs them minutes, not hours. Everyone sees their frames and picks their favorite. Retouched files land in seven business days, or two if you need it faster. You get full commercial usage rights, I carry insurance, and a certificate of insurance goes to your building manager before anyone asks.

 

For events, a highlight gallery is in your hands the next business day, because I know the recap email cannot wait for the full set.​​

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Credentials

• Fifteen years of professional photography (est. 2010)

• Corporate portraiture, leadership photography, corporate events, photojournalism

• Master's, Social-Organizational Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University

• New York University alumnus

• Co-founder and Chief HR Officer, Steam Boys

• Working markets: New York City, Nashville, Miami, Los Angeles

• Fully insured, COI available on request

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I still like the part where somebody who told me they hate having their picture taken looks at the back of the camera and goes quiet with surprise for a second. That happens most days. It is the whole reason I do this.

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If you have a leadership team, a headshot day, or an event on the calendar, let's talk.