Guest Post by Amy V. Cooper Sourcebooks, Photography Directories, Listings… What are the differences between them, and which one will give me the highest return on investment? You asked, so I did the research. I interviewed dozens of photographers and dir
I interviewed dozens of photographers and directory agents and conclude that there are no best or worst. Your genre of photography, location, target market, how you prefer to interact, and of course your marketing budget will collectively determine which one (or more) of these resources is right for you. This review will help you decide which resources are best for your business.
In the age of smartphones and social media, there is the idea that all pictures look alike. The algorithms make them look alike. Tourist sites make backdrops designed for social media, restaurants cook food that looks great on Instagram, and people experience every aspect of life through the images that they make. The image overwhelms the experience until it becomes the experience and reality ceases to exist. All you’re left with is an Instagram feed for your memories.
Since its beginnings, photography has functioned in part as a vehicle for showing what is neither accessible nor visible to most of us. It also has the power to shed light on the things around us that are otherwise overlooked—from remote societies to elite fraternities, isolated places to objects so common we don’t even stop to look at them. From Daidō Moriyama to Susan Meiselas, Aperture and Magnum photographers have long demonstrated how photographs can reveal hidden things, places, and lives.
On one side, companies who need pictures made. One the other, freelancing photographers who need money. Meero, as a platform, arranges for them to meet, handles the transaction, and gets a cut. Reminds you of something? Yes, Uber, AirBnB, Fiverr, eBay, and other companies classified under the Gig economy work the same way. The most hyped are those, like Meero, who actually do not own or create anything but are the technological equivalent of a middle man. No significant capital investment and minimum employee count grants them the agility to scale rapidly with minimum cost — just a platform where buyers and sellers meet.
Caitlin Hughes has also promised to “bring the voices of its members together” as the photo agency targets a “more nimble” approach to client partnerships
Caitlin Hughes has also promised to “bring the voices of its members together” as the photo agency targets a “more nimble” approach to client partnerships
David Hurn – The Life This is part of our little curiosity and famous X shooter corners, and I think you’ll enjoy this one particularly. The 2017 BBC documentar
Sofia Verzbolovskis is a Panamanian photographer based in New York. After graduating from NYU in 2009, she travelled to Accra, Ghana as a volunteer in a local school. While in Ghana, Sofia began to focus on photography. She returned to New York to attend a photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography (2010–2011). Her photos have been published in Musée Magazine, Huffington Post, Jungles in Paris, La Prensa, Variety, and Jocks and Nerds, among other publications.
We are far past the few daily images we saw who were either made to inform or to communicate a brand message. Images that either reflected an existing or depicted a yearned reality. Today, it’s a blur between the two. And only when a photograph challenges our beliefs do we questioned them. Otherwise, it is all the same: An endless flow of unrelated content where images of real violence are jumbled with vacation landscapes and occasional reminders. Photos of our presidents are mixed with those of our cousins, handbags or miracle gadgets, images of floods and devastation appear before ( or after) cute cats, more handbags and some street demonstrations. An endless scroll of content that leaves us unfulfilled enough to keep us scrolling down, endlessly, expecting one will act as a period, making us stop and put down our phones. But that image never appears.
This month, we feature our annual August project, Photographers on Photographers, where visual artists interview colleagues they admire. Thank you to all who have participated for their time, energies and for efforts. Today we are happy to share this inte
This month, we feature our annual August project, Photographers on Photographers, where visual artists interview colleagues they admire. Thank you to all who have participated for their time, energies and for efforts. Today we are happy to share this interview with Denise Orlin’s interview with Laura Husar Garcia. – Aline Smithson and Brennan Booker
Drew Nikonowicz’s stunning body of work and recent book by Yoffy Press & FW:Books This World and Others Like It plays off the ideation of exploration within the 21st century landscape. As an artist that has lived their entire life with access to worlds o
Drew Nikonowicz’s stunning body of work and recent book by Yoffy Press & FW:Books This World and Others Like It plays off the ideation of exploration within the 21st century landscape. As an artist that has lived their entire life with access to worlds outside of his own via the internet and subsequent media, Nikonowicz carefully navigates the relationship between 19th century survey photographs created by photographers like Timothy H. O’Sullivan and Bierstadt Brothers, along with current methods of constructing realities though two-dimensional imagery. In This world and Others Like It, Drew employs multiple methods of image making, juxtaposing digital constructions and large format black and white photographs as a means of questioning how humans interact with images, along with the process of creating and interpreting a photographic image as some form of reality. The images that make up the work and book place viewers into a world that feels both familiar and foreign, forcing one to question truth and its relationship to actuality.
You’ve heard it before. To make it in this industry, you have to develop a unique personal brand. You need to make smart marketing and business decisions to push that brand forward. You must stand out and stand apart. But how do you start building an audi
The Photographer’s Guide to Branding and Marketing in a Distracted World will give you the strategies, tips and advice you need to get ahead in a competitive landscape that rewards the unique and memorable. Inside, you’ll find:
After two decades in the spotlight, the star of Mallrats and the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise is now a small-town Texas photographer and dad of five.
After two decades in the spotlight, the star of Mallrats and the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise is now a small-town Texas photographer and dad of five.
My old teacher Rich Rollins recently sent me this chat between JP Caponigro and Lee Friedlander, originally xeroxed from a 2002 issue of Camera Arts magazine. It contains several pearls of wisdom, tangents, and outright deflections, and is altogether so good I thought I’d share here. Enjoy.
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
In a press release, Gannett said the platform, called Imagn, includes original sports, entertainment and breaking news images. The site promises 600,000 photos “per year from 10,000 sporting events covered by 300 sports photographers nationwide” to start, and an additional 1.8 million photos every year.
