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About City Pictures

A live event photo desk built around guest moments, quick access, and repeatable venue workflow.

Guest experience

Guests take a photo or short clip, receive a simple QR/code card, scan or enter the code on their phone, pick their favorites, check out securely, and download right away.

What City Pictures is

City Pictures is a live event media system focused on guests and their moments: friends, reactions, celebrations, outfits, groups, and fan energy. The website is the guest-facing layer of a recurring event business, not just a gallery.

Founder

Fareed Alston is a St. Louis-based video producer, camera operator, and event-media professional with experience across live production, commercial photography support, wedding/events, and high-volume audience-facing environments. His background combines technical capture skills with experiential marketing and promotional event work, making City Pictures a natural extension of both his production discipline and live-event experience.

Relevant background
  • Freelance event photography across nightlife venues, clubs, and live entertainment environments
  • Theater and event coverage experience, including Stifel Theatre
  • Experiential marketing work with Attack Marketing from June to December 2024
  • Ongoing promotional and guest-facing event work
Why this exists

Most event media either stays on the stage or gets buried in delayed galleries. City Pictures is built to make the guest side of the event feel bigger: capture the moment, hand over a simple card, and let the guest get back to their phone fast.