Photoville

Exhibitions Tagged #Professional Development

Events and Sessions Tagged #Professional Development

Jun 62024

Safety Starts with a Contract

This interactive workshop enables visual journalists to confidently negotiate contractual terms to ensure fair treatment and safe working conditions.

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Jun 22024

Safely Covering the U.S. Elections

A practical 2-hour workshop presenting visual journalists with key digital and physical safety tools for covering the U.S. elections and election-related events.

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Jun 162023

LEVELING UP: “Protecting Your Copyright and Other Things That Keep Us Up at Night”

How do we protect our copyright and what are new aspects of industry that we need to be learning more about?

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Jun 152023

LEVELING UP: “Exploring Different Career Paths in the Photo World”

No one’s career looks the same. What other pathways can lead to a success within the photographic industry?

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Jun 142023

LEVELING UP: “The Birth of a (Photo) Book or Zine”

What does it take to make a photo book/zine realized?

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Jun 42023

ICP Portfolio Reviews

Receive key feedback and guidance on next steps with your photographs and stories from ICP staff and faculty!

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Jun 232022

CRAFTING YOUR CAREER: “Getting What You Want & Are Worth: Freelancer Negotiations”

Hear from the photographers engaged in disseminating industry guidance and insights about what to say and not say as you navigate your photography business.

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Jun 212022

CRAFTING YOUR CAREER: “Destigmatizing Side Hustles”

It’s the big open secret of the photography community: everyone does side work. Come and hear how different rockstar photographers subsidize and develop their careers with work that’s not just editorial photography.

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Jun 152022

Photoville Safety Clinics

The Photoville Freelance Safety Clinics are an opportunity for freelance photojournalists and documentary photographers to receive free, expert, one-on-one advice on safety and security topics.

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Oct 102021

Styling Beyond Instagram: Taking Your Prop Styling Skills From The Square To The Street

Have you discovered you love prop styling through Instagram? Do you want to know how to make a career out of it? There’s no shortage of opportunities—so it’s time to seize them, present yourself as a professional with versatile styling chops, and wow potential clients. I’ll show you how!

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Oct 82021

Disruptive Creativity Talk (ENCORE RECORDING)

Discover how to use photography as a form of self-care and embrace the challenges encountered as opportunities

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Oct 72021

CRAFTING YOUR CAREER: The Journey Of The Editor

Learn how to write successful grants, proposals, and pitches and what it takes to become a photo editor.

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Oct 22021

The Importance Of Building Your Photo Business (ENCORE RECORDING)

Join celebrated photographer Janette Beckman and curator Julie Grahame as they dive into the fundamentals of building your brand and photography business.

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Sep 302021

CRAFTING YOUR CAREER: Pitching From the Photographers and Editors Perspectives

Want to learn how to become a successful photographer or editor? Join our workshops and learn all about Crafting Your Career.

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Sep 232021

CRAFTING YOUR CAREER: Grant Writing & Proposals For Photographers

Learn how to write successful grants, proposals, and pitches and about the in’s and out’s of being a photo editor.

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Sep 192021

The Art Of Pitches & Proposals (ENCORE RECORDING)

Join us in a crash course for tips that cover everything from job searching, responding to proposal requests, crafting the perfect caption and grant submissions, as well as best practices for photo-editing.

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Oct 22020

Back to Business: Pitching & Marketing

This session will focus on the art of pitching, website and portfolio editing, and marketing your work.

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Sep 272020

Visual Narrative and Your Story

Members of the Visual Thinking Collective will present a workshop geared toward the mid-career photographer. Presentations will focus on building editorial skills and will consider an array of issues, including the elements of the visual narrative, researching and pitching story ideas, exploring your photographic identity, sustaining and editing long-term projects, marketing your abilities, and working with clients.

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Sep 252020

Back to Business: Pricing & Negotiations

This session will focus on pricing structures, how to read and interpret contracts, and best practices for business negotiations.

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Sep 182020

Back to Business: Workflow

This session will focus on legal business structures, taxes and accounting, and business insurance. The workshops are especially geared towards BIPOC photographers, and are open to photographers anywhere in the world.

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Sep 222019

Teargas, Trolling, and Trauma: Photographing Political Polarization in the U.S.

A panel discussion on the physical, digital, and psychological risks for photographers covering political rallies, protests, and events in an increasingly polarised environment leading up to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.

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May 32019

Complimentary Portfolio Reviews with Leica Gallery LA Curator Paris Chong

Have your portfolio reviewed by Leica Gallery Manager and Curator Paris Chong at the Leica Pavilion.

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Sep 142018

Changing the Game: Creative Ways to Get Noticed and Make Money

From brand ambassadors to teaching and fellowships opportunities to starting related businesses, learn how these creatives are redefining the game, making connections and attracting the clients they want. Walk away with tons of inspiration on how to innovate and rethink ways to build your own photography business.

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Sep 142018

The Art of the Pitch: Preparing and writing proposals, grants, and more

Join Emma Raynes, Director of Programs at the Magnum Foundation and United Photo Industries and Photoville’s Co-Founder Laura Roumanos, in a 45 minute crash course that covers everything from searching for job and exhibition opportunities, responding to request for proposals and learning the tricks of the trade to writing the perfect grant submission.

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Sep 142018

The Importance and How To’s of Archiving Work and Legacy

Suzie Katz, president and founder of PhotoWings, and Mary Engel, president and founder of American Photography Archives Group, will discuss the importance of archiving, the best techniques and platforms, and how to start thinking about the legacy you’ll leave behind.

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Sep 152017

Developing a Signature Photography Brand

Photo editors and creative directors are constantly looking for photographers with a signature style and brand. But how do you develop them?

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Sep 152017

Getting More Money From Existing Work

In this panel, we’ll be joined by photographers who think outside the box when it comes to making extra cash from their photography — ideas like limited edition prints, online shops, image resale, magazines, and more.

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Sep 232016

From Personal Projects to Paid Projects

In this panel, moderated by Alison Zavos, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Feature Shoot, we’ll talk to photographers Shaniqwa Jarvis, Dustin Cohen, Michael Rubenstein and Michael George, who each turned personal projects into paying gigs.

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Sep 232016

Marketing Your Photography

For this conversation, PhotoShelter’s VP of Marketing Amy Fitzgibbons will walk you through all the “old school” tips that are at the heart of successfully promoting yourself. Fitzgibbons will be joined by Street Dreams Magazine photographer Akhil Sesh, who will dive into the “new world” of Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and more.

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Sep 232016

Taxes and Finances: All You Need to Know

Taxes and finances may not be your passion, but staying on top of both can help you maintain your sanity and earn more each year. In this discussion, PhotoShelter CEO Andrew Fingerman sits down with CPA Steven Zelin, whose tax practice focuses on helping artists and creatives.

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Sep 232016

What Buyers Really Want from Photographers

Photography has never been more important to helping brands and publications communicate with their audiences. So with a constant need for great photography, how do art directors and photo editors find and work with photographers?

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Jun 302012

Running or Ruining Your Photography Business

Van Driel speaks about the mistakes of talented photographers who ruin their businesses, only because they neglect commercial ‘rules’.

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