Description
What are the best ways to market yourself as a photographer?
Whether it's via a website, portfolio, social networking or by contacting photo agencies and picture desks – it’s not always easy to know what the industry likes or doesn’t like.
Industry expert Will Carleton is offering to conduct one-hour one-on-one sessions on Tuesday 18 September with IdeasTap members where he’ll go through your marketing materials/approaches and suggest how they can be improved and who you should be targeting.
The three individual appointments will be scheduled between 2pm and 5pm on Tuesday 18 September and will take place at IdeasTap HQ in Bermondsey, London – please make sure you can attend before you apply.
About Will Carleton
Since going freelance in 2006, Will Carleton has offered sales and marketing advice to photo agencies and picture libraries, as well as taking on editorial photographers in 2007. He covers frontline marketing to picture editors, how to get noticed, website presentation and what picture editors want – and don't want. Once a photographer has taken all these elements on board he then makes personal introductions and recommendations to commissioning picture editors.
This brief will close at 5pm on Wednesday 12 September and is open to IdeasTap members aged 16 and up. If you have any technical queries, please visit the help centre. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstances, including technical issues – so make sure you don’t leave your application to the last minute.
Image by huzu1959, under a CC BY 2.0 license.
How to respond
- Before applying, please make sure you have at least eight images uploaded to your IdeasTap portfolio.
- Click Follow this brief in the yellow box on the left of this page.
- Click Apply now.
- Enter your full name.
- Tell us in 100 words or less why you would benefit from this opportunity – and why you should win.
- Hit Submit.
- Please make sure you have a photo on your profile page. It doesn't need to be a headshot and you won't be judged on the quality of this picture – but as with all the briefs on the site, you have to have a profile picture to be eligible.
This brief will close at 5pm on Wednesday 12 September and is open to IdeasTap members aged 16 and up. If you have any technical queries, please visit the help centre. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstances, including technical issues – so make sure you don’t leave your application to the last minute.