SVA Panel: How Photo Business Practices Work
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 12:14PM An open discussion with photography professionals. Mentors from the photo trades will address assignments & stock, licensing, copyright, metadata, releases, budgets & negotiation, and representation. Hosted by the MPS Digital Photography & BFA Computer Art Departments.
Panelists include:
*NY Mets photographer Marc Levine
*National Geographic photographer Ira Block
*Book-cover specialist Laura Wyss
*PhotoLibrary Creative Director Phyllis Giarnese
*VH1 Photo Editor Daniella Nilva
*ClampArt gallery owner Brian Clamp
So I went to this last night. This is a summary of what I learned:
*metatdata is super important - put you name/date/job info in your files so that people can find you and give you credit for your work
*register your images with the US copyright office in DC so if your images are used without your permission you can have rights and get compensated
*Publishers almost never show faces on book covers (unless the book is about a specific person of course)-people from behind, cropped, and shadowy figures are commonly used. Often times photo illustrations using more than one photo are used to make book covers.
*It might be best to get gallery representation in another city other than NYC and then from there NYC galleries will find you
*Always be working on personal projects on the side
*Stock photo agencies are your friend and can help you make some extra $
Also: there are a number of websites with helpful information for photographers.
Here are just a few:
Use Plus: http://www.useplus.com/index.asp?
ASMP: http://asmp.org/
APA: http://www.apanational.com/index.cfm?
NYIP: http://www.nyip.com/
NPPA: http://www.nppa.org/
EP: http://www.editorialphoto.com/
