Grounded in real-life experiences and scenarios, this practical guide offers editorial, non-profit, foundation, and corporate photographers an honest and insightful approach to running a freelance photography business. Pulling from thirty years of experience as a freelance photographer, veteran Todd Bigelow presents a timely and detailed account of the methods and tactics best used to navigate and succeed in the profession. He explores the topics that define the business of freelancing, including: analyzing photography contracts; creating and maintaining an image archive; licensing for revenue; client development; registering for copyright; combating copyright infringement; and understanding tax issues, freelance business structures, and more. Chapters feature examples of real contract clauses and emails to better prepare readers for the practical daily activities that are essential to growing a success business. Likewise, Bigelow shares conversational anecdotes throughout to provide real insight into the world of freelancing. Based on the author’s sought-after Business of Photography Workshop, this book is an essential guide for emerging, mid-career, and experienced photographers interested in starting or improving their own freelance business.

Taking good photographs and selling them successfully involves two very different skills. This guide helps the freelance photographer to identify new markets for their work, create portfolios and presentations, maintain a client list and the myriad of other skills required to succeed in this highly competitive area of work.

Taking good photographs and selling them require different skills; this new handbook aims at helping photographers identify potential markets for their work and describes how to sell into the major markets. An essential manual for anyone involved in or trying to enter the world of professional freelance photography.

This book includes detailed listings on markets - magazines, newspapers, card and calendar publishers, agencies etc - looking to buy pictures from freelance and aspiring freelance photographers. The book has been published for 33 years.

This handbook provides a comprehensive list of the many possibilities open to freelance photographers who wish to make their work pay in the open market.

The Photography Handbook provides an introduction to the principles of photographic practice and theory and offers guidelines for the systematic study of photographic media. It explores the history of lens-based picture making and examines the mediums' characteristics, scope and limitations. Equipping the reader with a vocabulary for photographic phenomena and helping develop visual awareness and visual literacy, The Photography Handbook will enable students to familiarize themselves with current theoretical viewpoints and to evolve critical frameworks for their own photographic practice. The Photography Handbook includes: * an analysis of photographic theory * an introduction to conceptual skills necessary for photography * the historical background and rationale for photographic representation * the camera as a documentary tool * interviews with editors, photographers, picture editors and readers * the effect of new technologies on photographic practice and an exploration of the shift from analogue to digital imagery * over seventy images.