Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. Any occasion in which a politician or other celebrity may be photographed to their advantage. Short form: '''photo op'''.
WordNet
n. an occasion that lends itself to (or is deliberately arranged for) taking photographs that provide favorable publicity for those who are photographed [syn: photo op]
Usage examples of "photo opportunity".
They'd won the Stanley Cup, and this would be a photo opportunity for them and for him.
The NATO meeting, the photo opportunity at Auschwitz, stopping off at London on the way home for dinner at Buckingham Palace.
The mysterious summons, Aringarosa suspected, was probably a photo opportunity for the Pope and other Vatican officials to piggyback on Opus Dei's recent public success-the completion of their World Headquarters in New York City.
Once, campaigning at a Miccosukee village, the congressman consented to an airboat ride because Erb Crandall saw it as a sensational photo opportunity.
The last photo opportunity before they walked on a new world, or died.
Never one to disdain a photo opportunity, the Prattler photographer leaned out for a clearer shot only to drop his camera and grab for his safety strap when the helicopter swerved, avoiding a collision with the soaring spire of the Chrysler Building by a hairsbreadth.