Before the Doors Opened
Some moments exist only once. The ribbon cuts, the crowd hasn’t arrived yet, and the atmosphere carries a particular charge that no amount of post-production can manufacture. That’s what I was there to capture.
I was on-site at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science before opening day, media access only documenting the official launch of Soccer: More Than a Game, a landmark exhibition timed to the arrival of FIFA World Cup 2026™ in North Texas.
The assignment wasn’t just an opening ceremony. It was the visual record of Dallas planting its flag in global soccer culture.
The Perot Museum’s Thom Mayne–designed architecture gave every frame a built-in tension, hard geometry against the energy of people gathering around something that meant something.
The ribbon cutting. The officials. The stillness right before it all became public. Those are the images that don’t get made twice.
