Starting Your Career as a Freelance Photographer: The Complete Marketing, Business, and Legal Guide - Softcover

Crawford, Tad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581152809 ISBN 13: 9781581152807

Publisher: Allworth Press, 2003

Synopsis

Here is a virtual treasury of advice, insight, and guidance for every freelance photographer! From creating a portfolio and promoting your work to winning the first client and running a healthy, profitable business, Starting Your Career as a Freelance Photographer provides crucial marketing, business, and legal know-how for every step of the process. New entrepreneurs will discover in-depth information on choosing the right location, interacting with clients effectively, and receiving timely payments. They’ll also find practical advice for keeping track of business income and expenses, managing insurance and tax issues, and marketing their work to a diverse range of clients. Readers will also find real-life answers to the essential questions every photographer asks, including how to negotiate, how to price, how to find the right market, and even how to keep from drowning in paperwork. Finally, the guide includes sample contracts, model release forms, and much more. For anyone looking to earn money with their photography, Starting Your Career as a Freelance Photographer is a must-have start-up kit!

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

About this title

Synopsis:

This start-up kit offers counsel to budding freelance photographers wanting to earn money with their photography. This book provides the reader with marketing, business, and legal know-how, from first portfolio and first client, to running a profitable, healthy business. In-depth information about favourable locations, the various markets and sub-markets of photography, photographer-client interaction, marketing methods and payment strategies helps the reader to make informed strategic decisions. On the administrative side, this book explains how to keep track of business records, tend to health and safety issues and manage tax and insurance matters effectively. It also gives the answers to such questions as: School or apprenticeship? How much of my earnings can I spend on new equipment? Who can help me with the paperwork? Which market is best for me? This book also contains insights on the role of professional organizations and advisors, sample contracts and release forms. Photographers seeking to make the leap into freelance photography and those who have just started on this road should benefit from the authoritative advice offered by this book.

About the Author:

Tad Crawford grew up in the artists' colony of Woodstock, New York. He is the author of many nonfiction books and his writing has appeared in venues such as Art in America, the Café Irreal, Confrontation, Communication Arts, Family Circle, Glamour, Guernica, the Nation, and Writer's Digest. The founder and publisher of Allworth Press, he lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allworth Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1581152809
• ISBN 13: 9781581152807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256