The Challenge
Picture a city marathon with runners across marathon, half-marathon and 10K distances, and photographers placed at points along the course: the start line, kilometre markers, water stations and the finish. A race like this produces tens of thousands of photos in a single morning.
A common way to share them is to upload everything to one gallery, where each runner has to scroll through thousands of images to find their own. Many runners give up before they find a photo, and the organisers field requests for help locating specific images.
The organising committee wants every runner to find their own race photos without scrolling through the rest, and without installing an app. Marathon photography is hard: runners are in motion, kit looks alike, faces are sometimes partly covered and bib numbers can be folded or hidden by a timing belt.
The Solution
Runners open the event page from a QR code or a link, in their phone's browser. A runner takes a selfie and Eventiere finds the photos they appear in. Where the organiser switches race number search on, a runner can also search by bib number.
Race number search reads a bib only on a runner whose face is also visible in that photo. It is switched on per album and needs face search on that album, so a runner shot from behind is not matched. Photographers upload to the event's albums as the race goes on, and photos become searchable once they are processed.
A runner can search again later to see photos added since. When a runner's photos are found, the link can be sent by email or WhatsApp, and the runner opens a gallery of only their own photos.
What the organiser sees
In this example the organising committee sees simple counts in the event's analytics: how many runners opened the page, how many searched for their photos, and how many photos were downloaded or shared. They are counts of activity, not lists of names.
For the committee, the difference from one large gallery is that runners no longer scroll through thousands of photos. Each runner is shown their own, so the usual question afterwards, "where are my photos?", has a simple answer: search again.
Because the gallery is an ordinary web page, runners can also share the photos they like on their own social profiles, straight from their phone.