Corporate photography at Accenture Tower
Forty two floors built over Ogilvie Transportation Center, where a large part of the West Loop arrives every morning. Start at the top of the commute and people walk up into the session instead of crossing the Loop to reach it.
Accenture Tower is the 42 story, 588 foot building at 500 West Madison Street in the West Loop, and it sits directly atop Ogilvie Transportation Center, the Metra terminal that brings commuters in from the western and northern suburbs. It took the Accenture name on July 10, 2019. The transit position is the defining practical fact about working here. People who commute by train walk up into the building rather than across the Loop from another station, which makes early morning slots realistic in a way they are not in most downtown towers, and it makes a suburban colleague coming in for the day a short ride instead of a drive.
Accenture keeps its Chicago office in the tower that carries its name, which sets the tone for the building as a professional services address. Beyond that the tenancy is the multi tenant mix a Class A West Loop tower holds rather than one company's campus, so a program here can involve more than one organization on different floors. The consulting and professional services register tends to want portraits that read current and consistent across a large headcount.
The Metra terminal below is the thing to schedule around. An early start catches people as they arrive, before the first meeting block takes the day, and it means a colleague riding in from the suburbs can be photographed and back at a desk by mid morning. Building management sets the dock hours, the freight access and any certificate of insurance requirement, and a tower over an active rail terminal has its own service routing, so ask early. The kit moves on one cart to a conference room on your floor.
We photograph on site, in your own office. If your team is in this building, the notes below are what the day looks like. Nothing here is a claim to a past session in it, and no tenant named is a client unless it says so elsewhere on this site.






Sample work, photographed at other clients' offices rather than in this building. It is the standard a session here would be held to.
- Floors
- 42 stories
- Height
- 588 feet
- Renamed
- Accenture Tower, July 10, 2019
- Transit
- Built atop Ogilvie Transportation Center, Metra
- Anchor
- Accenture Chicago office
- Location
- 500 West Madison Street, West Loop
Working in Accenture Tower
The practical side of a shoot in this building, so the day runs on schedule.
Start early
The Metra terminal is directly below, so people arrive at the building rather than crossing to it. A start at the top of the commute catches the most people with the least disruption to the day.
Suburban colleagues
A team member riding in from the western or northern suburbs steps off the train into the building. For a distributed Chicago organization this is the easiest downtown address to gather people at for a single session.
Dock and access
A tower built over an active rail terminal routes service its own way. Confirm the dock window, the certificate of insurance and the freight elevator with building management the week before rather than on arrival.
Space needed
A conference room of about eighty square feet with an outlet is enough, and a room with a window wall is the first choice. We meter the glass on arrival and balance the studio light to it.
Schedule
Forty to sixty people is a full day at a civil pace. Professional services rosters run long, and a list past that splits over two dates with the setup and the standard held identical on both.
What we make for Accenture Tower teams
A headshot program is usually the first project. It is rarely the only one, and the same photographer handles the rest.
Corporate headshot programs
Whole teams photographed in one or two days, to one standard that holds as people join and leave.
See headshot programsExecutive portraits
Leadership portraits with the weight the business expects, for annual reports, press and the board page.
See executive portraitsBrand films and campaign video
Directed, filmed and edited by one person, from the first scope conversation through final delivery.
See brand film workRecruiting and employer brand
Culture photography and video made in the building people would actually work in, for careers pages and hiring campaigns.
See recruiting workCommercial and facility photography
A marketing team's image library for the year, so the next campaign does not start with a stock search.
See commercial workConference and event coverage
Sessions, keynotes, booths and headshot stations, photographed and filmed in the same visit.
See event coverageHeadshots are often one piece of a larger photo library. The same visit can also cover leadership portraits, recruiting content, workplace photography, video, or event coverage, and when one photographer handles all of it, the library looks like it came from one company.
See how the full engagement worksAccenture Tower questions
What teams in this building usually ask first.
Can we run a session before the workday starts?
Can people come in from our suburban offices for the day?
Do we need anything from building management?
How far ahead should we book?
Other buildings in this district
Your team is in Accenture Tower?
Tell me the headcount, the floor and the dates. A proposal follows a short conversation, and questions are answered within one business day.