Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Business and Online Resources for Photography

Call for Entrees:
Cafe Events is a central clearinghouse for various exhibitions, grants, festival etc. It tends to be oriented to fine arts.

Society for Photographic Education is for teachers, students and photographers in general. They have a board for exhibitions and other photographic opportunities.

Center for Photography Woodstock is a non-profit photo organization, this board has a wide range of photo-opportunities.

Arts Council for Long Beach is a great local organization that serves all the arts.

Art Deadlines List - this is the free version, you can also pay for more listings.

The Art List - they have both a free and paid version, has all kinds of art/photo opportunities.



Find a Photographer, Business Resources:

GYST: this started as an "artists helping artists" organization and has grown to include software, classes, networking etc.

Workbook: this resource used to be called The California Workbook and was just regional - now it covers a broader area, but it has a great ability to search by region. On the right side of that page you'll see a "region" search engine.

Variety 411 used to be mainly for film, but now it carries a very broad range of regional creative resources. Look for everything from Location Scouts to Retouchers.

The WPPI is an association for Wedding Photographers, they have a search engine for locating photographers in your area - check out their websites before you contact anyone.

APA is a national association of photographers and it has a very strong LA section - use the "Find a Photographer" engine to locate photographers.

ASMP is a similar organization (tends to be more for photojournalists) and has a great set of resources as well as a Find a Photographer tool.

Print on Demand:
Paperchase is a local firm with a wide range of products. You can get everything from individual cards to books.

MagCloud is a print-on-demand magazine, that's very cheap and you get the first proof copy for free (you pay shipping).

Blurb was one of the original online book companies. If you pay extra you can get the book without their label.

Edition One is a custom book maker which means that they will create the exact size, format you're interested in.

Lulu is a fairly reasonably priced custom bookmaker that works from a series of templates.

Photo-Education sites:

Photo Shelter is a web host that has a large set of free webinars.

Lynda.com is the place for software education.

ASMP has a video library that covers photography business practices.

APA LA is a professional photo-related organization which often hosts seminars and other supporting events. 


Website Providers:
Places to get a domain name (web address)
Yahoo offers websites and domain registration.

Domain for registration

Web hosting:
Go Daddy is a very inexpensive host for a website, easy to use templates, it also has domain registration services.

Wix is an inexpensive host, easy templates and it has a free option if you don't want a custom domain name. Low prices for custom named sites that include a small ad. 

Livebooks has a very good price for students and educators and is designed for photographers.

Photo Shelter also specializes in photo sites, if you get on their emailing list, you'll receive free reports on various photo resources. Look at the top menu and click on "free guides."

Folio Link features sites for photographers and other visual arts and has templates designed for media such as iPad's and iPhones.

Blue HostZen Folio, and Just Host are recommendations from wedding photographers.


Blog (theyʼre free, but the best designs/ cost a few $$)

Word Press

Blogger

Online Magazines:

Visura Magazine is one of my favorite resources for photography - this post features Luis Gonzalez Palma - a Guatemalan photographer/artist who's work combines magic realism with a strong political awareness of his country's history.

Photo-Eye was started by Rixon Reed who started it originally as a source for photography books and that still seems to be it's emphasis.

Seesaw started in 2004 as a magazine dedicated to "observation" - which means documentary / journalism and it also includes some very good essays, reviews and interviews.

ZoneZero was founded in 1995 by Pedro Meyer, a documentary photographer from Mexico, who understood the importance of digital communications from a very early point. In general the work leans towards documentary projects.

Flak Photo is produced by Andy Adams (he's on FB) and generally features a very wide range of photographer's fine art and personal projects.

Fraction Magazine is the work of David Bram (also on FB) and features issues based on a changing thematic approach as well as photo book reviews.

File describes itself as a "collection of unexpected photography" which means it contains everything from Jeff Bridges' (yes, "the Dude") work with a panoramic camera to Toy Camera contests.

LensCulture covers almost every type of photography (journalism, abstract, fine art) and includes essays and audio/video interviews.

Chambre Noire means "dark room" in french...the site's in french, but the imagery is universal and always interesting.

F-Stop is oriented to fine art photography and usually approaches each issue in a thematic approach.

Making Room is also a fine art magazine - it includes other art forms, but seems to really focus on the actual process of making art through interviews and published artwork.

BlueEyes Magazine features long-term documentary projects...that doesn't just mean gritty b&w journalism, check out the Skate Rats project.