NATO summit

brings leaders, delegations and press into one place for a short and intense stretch of time. Decisions are made, statements are read and a lot happens in corridors and side rooms that never reaches the official program. The job is to document it accurately.

NATO. Pavel Golovkin

A photojournalist’s role at an event like this is to record what happens and who is participating and to leave their own opinions out of the frame.

NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin

Ukraine was the main topic.

NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin

And of course, the task includes close-up portraits of all the main participants.

NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin
NATO. Pavel Golovkin

And in the end, luck found me again. I had been thinking about this exact frame and then it happened. I was walking down the street when the motorcade of the summit’s main participant, US President Joe Biden, drove past. My camera locked focus perfectly sharp on a finger he pressed against the window of his limousine pointing at something.

NATO. Pavel Golovkin