Susan Carr

The reason is frequently that unreasonable requests are being made. Years ago I was working on a personal project that involved photographing friends in their home environments. I knew I would want to show this work in my portfolio and exhibit the work whenever...

We all must give the sales and marketing of our business a high priority. We know this yet we still look for the magic bullet that will give us financial rewards minus this work. Well, unfortunately, it doesn’t happen that way. Marketing are the tools we use: our web...

No one enjoys talking about money, at least only a few strange birds do. For those few, it is a game. If they are selling, they work to get the highest price possible. If they are buying, they want the lowest. As independent working photographers, we are all...

Websites are often the first place we show our work to prospective clients. The prospect arrives at your site via an Internet search looking for a photographer to fulfill a specific assignment. In these tough financial times, the searches usually include a specialty...

The Visual Arts Division of the United States Copyright Office has ceased sending letters recommending that visual artists submit titles for each work being registered in a “group registration of unpublished images”. We have recently learned through tests of our own...

This week five of our blog contributors, including myself, will share quotes that have been meaningful to each of us in the course of developing our careers. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than...