Photojournalism | Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte Official Visit To Malaysia
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak (R) shakes hands with the Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte (L) during official welcoming ceremony outside the prime minister’s office in Putrajaya on November 5, 2014. Rutte is on one-day official visit to Malaysia.
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | The Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte inspects a guard of honour mounted by 106 officers and men from the First Battalion Royal Malay Regiment in Dataran Perdana, Putrajaya on November 5, 2014. Rutte is on one-day official visit to Malaysia.
Another busy day at our department today covering the official visit of Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte one day visit to Malaysia. Despite his tight schedule and only one day or to be exact less than twenty-four hour visit, our team of photographers from Department of Information Malaysia (Jabatan Penerangan Malaysia) was busy taking photographs from different venue and then we need to compile all of the photographs and make it into an official album to be delivered to Mark Rutte before he is schedule leaving Malaysia for Australia in the late evening. It is very high risk business, No, I did not mean “business as business” making money but a very high risk responsibility for our team. Luckily we did manage to finish the album at the designated time.
As usual when it comes to covering this kind of official visit by head of states to Malaysia, we work as a team, there is no way one single photographer can cover so many venue alone. It is almost impossible, so usually it take around somewhere five to ten photographers for the job (Not all of them taking photographs, some are busy doing editing, captioning and prepared for the album) but it depends on how many venue or events and how many days the head of state will be visiting Malaysia. Sometimes the head of state also went to East Malaysia like Sabah and Sarawak and we need more manpower for the task.
About the first photographs above where Najib Razak and Mark Rutte shake hands, I did not manage to get a nice frame simply because our Prime Minister Najib Razak was a little bit off to the right from the red carpet. I did try to move to the right so that both of them were in the frame but once I found the right position, both of them went ahead and I’ve to satisfy with the above photograph. We win some, we lose some, that’s life.
© 2014 Muhairul Azman Supian | Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is looking at a photo album from Department of Information Malaysia. The photographs were taken by photographers from Department of Information Malaysia during his one day official visit to Malaysia at Kuala Lumpur International Airport before heading for Australia. The album were presented by Malaysia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin (left) and Deputy Defence Minister Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri (right) on November 5, 2014.
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