LD Marcus Jessup's design blends intimacy with intensity on a stadium scale.

Lighting designer Marcus Jessup is employing a large Elation lighting system of over 500 fixtures for Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour. The global stadium run, which kicked off November 21 in the Dominican Republic, spans Latin America, Mexico, South America, Oceania, and Europe through July 2026.

Jessup says IP-rated fixtures were essential, as every show takes place outdoors in exposed positions. Over 1,100 fixtures are incorporated in total, supplied by 4Wall Entertainment, including 500+ IP-rated lights from Elation: 259 PROTEUS RAYZOR BLADE, 93 SŌL IV BLINDER, 100 DTW BLINDER, and 64 of Elation's award-winning PARAGON S moving heads.

Founder of the multidisciplinary design collective Moving Through Space, Jessup has collaborated with artists such as Bryson Tiller, Diplo, Machine Gun Kelly, and Kendrick Lamar, and in recent years has focused on the Latin market, collaborating with creative house STURDY.co on projects for Rauw Alejandro, Peso Pluma, Quevedo, and now Bad Bunny.

Touring in support of his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos-winner of the 2026 Grammy Award for Album of the Year-the 57-show run has experienced overwhelming demand and broken multiple venue records. Bad Bunny's recent Super Bowl halftime performance has only escalated the tour's momentum.

Storytelling at Scale
Bad Bunny places great importance on aesthetics, and the show, designed by STURDY.co, blends intimacy with spectacle, shifting from personal, emotional moments to powerful, stadium-sized crowd experiences. Combining visual storytelling with musical flow, the production places Puerto Rican culture at the heart of the performance.

"The creative vision behind the design was inspired by the emotional storytelling and visual world surrounding Debí Tirar Más Fotos," explains Jessup. "The intention was to design a show that felt cinematic and immersive while honoring the intimacy of the music. The design concept focused on atmosphere and transformation. I aimed to build a world with associate designer Eliot Jessep that could shift seamlessly between vulnerability and intensity."

From Concept to Gear Choice
The designer has worked with Bad Bunny for the past year and designed the artist's No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí residency in San Juan last year, which sold out 30 nights and became a cultural phenomenon. "Coming in after the previous designer Es Devlin was a personal honor," he states. "I've always looked up to her work."

Jessup began his initial design for Debí Tirar Más Fotos in fall 2024, more than a year before opening night. Prior to the tour, Elation invited him to its Los Angeles headquarters for a hands-on look at some of the latest products.

"I've been very impressed seeing their progress over the years," he shares. "I spent a good amount of time in the showroom, which helped me decide on a few different design options. Elation has the most fixtures on this rig and I'm very happy with my decisions."

Atmosphere and Emotion
Jessup's eye for atmosphere and feeling integrates technical mastery with storytelling, creating signature moments that enhance the narrative and resonate across large outdoor environments. With Debí Tirar Más Fotos, he delivers a lighting design that demonstrates how, even at stadium scale, atmosphere and emotion can remain central to the experience.

A central component of his design is more than 250 PROTEUS RAYZOR BLADE L linear fixtures that line the main video wall top and bottom, and wrap the perimeter of the stage, delivering dynamic eye candy and enough horsepower to compete inside a stadium. The zoomable LED bars, one meter in length, output up to 12,500 lumens and can function as wash, strobe, FX, blinder, and audience light. Dual strobe lines are piercingly bright while 210° tilt rotation allows them to position dynamically during a show.

"I wrapped the entire stage with them," Jessup says. "It not only brought the stage to life but also lit the bleacher area, including VIPs located upstage." With the onstage VIP section integrated into the show and high-profile guests appearing throughout the run, careful sightline management was required, something the designer calls a "fun design challenge."

'My Favorite Blinder'
Located in a line above the main video wall, 93 SŌL IV BLINDERs complement the tour's diverse color palettes and provide powerful visual punctuation.

"They are by far my favorite blinder on the market," said Jessup, adding that he wished he could have used them across the entire rig. "My favorite feature out of all the Elation fixtures used on the show is the RGBLAW LED array in the SŌL IV. I feel you rarely see a blinder of this type in the field, so it was nice to try something different."

Linear looks became a defining visual motif throughout the show. "I really enjoyed using straight lines on this design," the designer said. "Between the RAYZOR BLADE L and the SŌL IV we created a good amount of delay sweeps, which looked really clean."

Delay Towers
Crowd lighting is also central to the design, and the designer chose to place 64 PARAGON S LED profile fixtures positioned on four delay towers-16 per tower-dedicated entirely to audience illumination. "Lighting the audience was important and makes them feel like part of the show," he states.

The PARAGON combines multiple fixture roles in a single design, a versatile system centered on a variable CRI engine and interchangeable profile, Fresnel, and PC Beam lenses. "The PARAGON S's Fresnel lens proved especially effective," Jessup said. "That was a cool feature; we ended up keeping the lenses on for this run."

Also mounted on the delay towers, 100 DTW BLINDERs create a classic stadium aesthetic. "The role was to give the rig a stadium lighting feel, like Friday Night Lights," he explains. "Again, it would have been nice to have all SŌL IVs here to keep things consistent, but I'm happy with the DTWs overall."

Jessup concludes by reflecting on the tour and the collaboration that helped make his design a reality. "This tour will be one for the books. I'm grateful for the opportunity to work with such innovative equipment and send a special thank you to John Dunn and the entire Elation team for making it possible."

Crew
Creative Director: JanAnthony Oliveras
Show Design & Creative: STURDY
Show Director & Stage Design: Adrian Martinez
Stage Design: Skylar Elis
Lighting Designer: Marcus Jessup
Co-Associate Lighting Designer: Eliot Jessep
Lighting Director: Krizia Liz Velez Cruz
Lighting Programmer: Louis Choisy
Lighting Programmer: Kevin Labitan
4Wall Lighting Crew Chief: Jorge Caraballo
4Wall Lighting Techs: Harold Trenhs, Anthony Jose Villa Guzman, Junior Manuel Villa, Luis Geraldo MacDonald, Jorge Valdez Jr., Julio Emmanuel Fuentes Melendez, Arturo Jose Reyes Rodriguez, Jayro John Vera, Andres Schmidt Carazo, Brandon Lee Zarra, Jameson Costa, Jose Ramon Diaz Vadiz, Jorge Antiono Valdez
Production Manager: Rolando Figueroa
Electricians: Marcelo Jose Rudoni, Jeremy Mckee
Lead Riggers: Ruben Acosta, Joseph Ramirez
Delay Rigger: Cristian Adrian Galeano
Photos courtesy of Moving Through Space