Frame Five Media

Set 01 of 24

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, homecoming rally

A one-venue, one-afternoon assignment: a Canadian football stadium turned over to a rally. Hazy white sky, hard overhead light, a stage at one end and a steel barricade running the length of the turf, every attendee on one side of it, everyone being photographed on the other. The photographer worked that line for range: fisheye for the bowl, longer glass for the stage, short lenses for the faces packed three deep at the rail, then followed the day indoors to a press room.

The barricade was the story; the stadium was scale.

  1. Crowd gathers on the turf below a board reading "SHAI RALLY DAY"
    01 opener
  2. Videoboard against cloud: "SHAI RALLY DAY", "SGA SGA SGA"
    02 detail
  3. Two attendees in No. 2 jerseys at the front barricade
    03 portrait
  4. Fisheye from the rail: packed turf, sign reads "Let's Go Shai"
    04 wide
  5. Kids press the barricade with handmade signs; empty stands behind
    05 crowd
  6. Handmade poster: "Can you sign my hat and my poster"
    06 detail
  7. A child holds a replica jersey up over the barricade
    07 portrait
  8. Phones raised behind two oversized printed face cutouts
    08 crowd
  9. Attendees watch from a stairway outside the bowl, one pointing
    09 moment
  10. A host and the costumed tiger mascot work the stage
    10 stage
  11. A speaker addresses the crowd at the lectern, flags behind
    11 stage
  12. Photographers and phones crowd a figure in a No. 2 jersey
    12 hero Photographers and phones crowd a figure in a No. 2 jersey
  13. An attendee in a jersey passes security beside a concrete wall
    13 moment
  14. Indoor press conference: cameras, seated media, one person at table
    14 moment
  15. Sparks fall on stage beside a gold trophy on a plinth
    15 closer