Photography as OSINT at Trade Shows (opens in new tab)

Photography at trade shows quietly slips into the role of OSINT long before anyone explicitly calls it that, because every frame is a fragment of intelligence waiting to be interpreted. Walk a show floor with a camera and you’re not just documenting booths and branding, you’re reading the room with your eyes and later, much more slowly, with your memory and metadata. The way people cluster around a stand, the moment a sales rep leans in instead of waving people over, the half-closed laptops a...