3-Day Rotman International Trading Competition
- Bard Azima
- Apr 9, 2024
- 1 min read
"The Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC) is an annual event that brings teams of students and their faculty advisors from universities worldwide to participate in a unique 3-day simulated market challenge."
In February, 2023, we photographed the annual RITC at the University of Toronto. This entailed photographing the competition, as well as providing a headshot studio for 3 hours during the first day (a wonderful complimentary take-away for attendees). In these 3 hours we took over 160 headshots. We specialize in speedy, volume corporate headshots (ie) 30-45 seconds per person. This may seem very fast, especially with how much time most other headshot photographers take, but seeing the quality we attain so quickly is believing (see gallery with everyone's headshots).
The end of Day 1 also had all attendees go to the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX) to experience the closing bell, which was a lot of fun for everyone. The end of Day 3 was the awards reception held at the Hockey Hall of Fame.
As for the event pix, these had the potential to be quite dry because much of it had attendees sitting at computers doing trades, with few people showing much reaction or emotion. Here is where another of our strengths comes in to sharp relief: namely, being present and aware, so that when these moments do occur we get the shots. Hence why Sonya Ho, Project Coordinator, said of the final pix, "these are unreal!".
Here are some highlights:
RITC 2024 Hall at Rotman Sonya Ho conference attendees laughing lady at conference smiling conference attendee applauding TMX speech at TMX Toronto Stock Exchange group shot at TMX End-of-day bell at TMX Ticker tape at TMX Group shot outside TMX Rotman amphitheatre classroom men working on laptops Lady fist pumping at podium Lady reacting to laptop screen Intensely looking at laptop classroom students laptops amphitheater with students students at Rotman students at Rotman on computer overseeing RITC 2024 Rotman Tesla finance ticker tape Lady staring computer monitor Rotman interior lunch at RITC RITC foyer young businessmen chatting students at work at Rotman Rotman Kill All Orders close-up of lady at computer student in shock at results wide shot of amphitheater stock trading disaster wide shot of amphitheater stressed out at computer happy lady on laptop close-up of smiling young man students with their laptops students chatting over lunch Rotman Desautels Hall Rotman wide shot of foyer Rotman Trading Lab university student smiling university student smiling university students chatting RITC 2024 sponsors Rotman amphitheater class Young female student laptop intense stock trading university students chatting stock traders chatting Muslim women stock traders reacting to a stock trade surprised by stock trade Hockey Hall of Fame event wide shot Hockey Hall of Fame group shot Hockey Hall of Fame corporate event mingling Event photography group shot Hockey Hall of Fame event pix Event at Hockey Hall of Fame drinks at Hockey Hall of Fame Cocktails Hockey Hall of Fame wide shot Hockey Hall of Fame Corporate Event at HHOF
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