Two Houston office towers rise against a bright sky in a black-and-white exterior view.

ANNUAL REPORT / CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

CLIENT:
Macquarie Cook Energy

LOCATION:
Houston, TX

PROJECT SCOPE:
Corporate photography documenting office life, workplace culture, meetings, trading-floor activity, interiors, environmental details, and short looping image sequences for annual-report and client communications use.

Photographed for a corporate annual-report commission in Houston, this project looked inside Macquarie Cook Energy, a North American energy marketing and trading business later combined into Macquarie Energy. The black-and-white edit uses observation to describe a working office from the inside: trading-floor activity, meetings, hallway movement, quiet desk work, and the small details that give a workplace its rhythm.

The assignment was less about staging office culture than recognizing it as it happened — people moving between rooms, reading screens, taking calls, gathering around tables, and carrying the ordinary signals of a company at work.

A pump jack rests on an office windowsill above a Houston freeway interchange.
A pump jack rests on an office windowsill above a Houston freeway interchange.
A Macquarie Cook Energy employee on a headset looks from a Houston high-rise office window.
A Macquarie Cook Energy employee on a headset looks from a Houston high-rise office window.
Two employees cross a marble lobby beneath a large American flag.
Two employees cross a marble lobby beneath a large American flag.
An employee’s silhouette moves through an enclosed office skybridge against a cloudy sky.
An employee’s silhouette moves through an enclosed office skybridge against a cloudy sky.
A Macquarie employee carrying a bag rides an escalator inside a Houston office tower.
A Macquarie employee carrying a bag rides an escalator inside a Houston office tower.
Three colleagues confer during a meeting in the Macquarie Cook Energy office.
Two employees work at the Macquarie reception desk in Houston.
Two employees work at the Macquarie reception desk in Houston.
Colleagues meet around a conference table inside the Macquarie Cook Energy office.
Colleagues meet around a conference table inside the Macquarie Cook Energy office.
Hands trace data across printed market charts during a trading-floor discussion.
Hands trace data across printed market charts during a trading-floor discussion.
Three colleagues discuss market information at a bank of computer monitors.
A seated trader looks up while speaking with a colleague beside multiple market screens.
A seated trader looks up while speaking with a colleague beside multiple market screens.
Two colleagues talk across a workstation in Macquarie’s open-plan Houston office.
Two colleagues talk across a workstation in Macquarie’s open-plan Houston office.
A hand holding a pen gestures during an office discussion.
A hand holding a pen gestures during an office discussion.
An employee’s silhouette writes on a white board inside the Houston office.
Hands type on a keyboard beside a printed spreadsheet.
Two colleagues exchange a fist bump in front of financial market screens.
Two colleagues exchange a fist bump in front of financial market screens.
An employee leans back at a workstation surrounded by market-data monitors.
An employee leans back at a workstation surrounded by market-data monitors.
Three coworkers laugh together on the Macquarie trading floor.
Three coworkers laugh together on the Macquarie trading floor.
A smiling Macquarie employee gestures beside his office workstation.
A smiling Macquarie employee gestures beside his office workstation.
Colleagues exchange ideas during a conference-room meeting overlooking downtown Houston.
Colleagues exchange ideas during a conference-room meeting overlooking downtown Houston.
Three coworkers pause for a conversation in a Macquarie office hallway.
Three coworkers pause for a conversation in a Macquarie office hallway.
Employees walk through an enclosed downtown Houston parking garage.