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A symmetrical wall of searchlights fanning up from a truss stage across an empty stadium at night
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Medeu · Almaty2008

A light show at a high-altitude stadium

Year
2008
Place
Medeu, Almaty
Shoot in the archive
14–16 May 2008
Services
Archive

Three days of shooting at the Medeu high-altitude rink. The frames show a truss stage with a roof, ground support towers, PA stacks and a wall of searchlights along the whole stadium bowl. A lit balloon hangs above the stage.

An archive page. We show what the photographs recorded, and we do not claim a scope of work that the sources do not support.

01 / What the frames show

The stage is built on truss, with a roof and ground support towers at the sides. The PA stands in stacks at the edges of the stage and on the scaffold. The lighting is laid out in two layers: fixtures on the stage itself, and a symmetrical row of searchlights around the bowl, which is what produces the vertical fan of beams in every evening frame.

A wide dusk shot: a mountain stadium, a glowing sphere over the stage, beams into a violet sky
The balloon light over the stage, spectators around the bowl

02 / Why this shoot matters

This is the earliest work in the archive and the largest site: the open bowl of a high-altitude stadium. The shoot produced nine frames, and they are used across the site, including the vertical frame on the home page.

A vertical fan of some twenty searchlight beams rising from the stage into a black sky
The row of searchlights around the bowl
Speaker stacks against scaffold and truss towers, shot from a low angle
PA stacks and ground support towers
A row of High End Systems Showbeam fixtures on their flight cases, beams already firing
Fixtures on their cases before the show
Close-up of moving heads lined up on a barrier, lenses toward the camera
Moving heads on the barrier
A daylight stage build: PA stacks, truss roof, scaffold seating
Daylight build: the roof and the scaffold seating
A truss stage structure lit from within at night, side towers and PA
The stage lit from within

Not confirmed

  • The official name of the event and the client. The company presentations do not name this work at all; the date and the venue came from the camera.
  • The format: a city celebration, a sports ceremony or a concert.

Sources

  • Photo metadata: 14–16 May 2008, Nikon D90, Medeu, Almatyphoto metadata
  • Review of the Panterra photo archive: nine frames from a single shoot, the event not identified from the framesphoto metadata

Sources checked · 18.08.2026

Photographs: the Panterra archive

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