"Preparation for this once-a-year event is intense. I like to compare the Met Gala to the Super Bowl. We begin plotting it all out weeks in advance, working through every last detail about which photographers will be attending and where we'll each be positioned. In the days leading up to the event, we do walk-throughs to make sure that what we'd planned can in fact be executed. You want to identify and remove any uncertainties from the process so your operation can run as smoothly as possible.
I show up around 4 p.m. the day of the event and get set up both with my equipment and in my mental preparation. I do some visualization exercises. I have started to meditate, too. The red carpet can be chaotic for a few hours, but what people don't realize is that there's a long night of editing afterward. In total, I'll work somewhere between 10 and 12 hours."
