Institutional
and diplomatic photography
Protocol Portraits documents individuals operating within institutional, diplomatic, academic, and executive frameworks. Photographs are created for use in official communication, archives, press, and long‑term record.
Discretion
Assignments are carried out with full awareness of confidentiality, access boundaries, and public responsibility.
Workflow
Briefing, coverage, selection, and delivery follow a predictable process designed for institutional environments.
Usage
Deliverables are prepared for official communication, editorial distribution, archives, and long‑term reference.
Continuity
Visual consistency is maintained across campaigns, visits, and recurring events through a documented approach.
Work
Clients
About
Protocol Portraits is directed by Theo Solnik, photographer and cinematographer with more than thirty years of professional practice in documentary and institutional environments. His work includes the visual documentation of state visits, diplomatic engagements, official ceremonies and formal portraits produced for public record, press distribution and long-term archival use.
He began working as a press photographer at the age of fifteen and later studied film directing and cinematography at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb), with an academic background in philosophy and sociology. His professional formation has been shaped by work in access-restricted contexts, time-sensitive situations and coordination with protocol, security and communications structures.
Over the years, he has been entrusted with assignments involving heads of state, members of royal families, Nobel Prize laureates and senior political figures, as well as official events for governments, international institutions and publicly accountable organisations. Work is produced internationally and aligned with the representational standards and operational requirements of each institution.
Theo Solnik, photographer/cinematographer