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Education/Training/Tutorials

  • International Center of Photography: The International Center of Photography, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, consists of a museum for photography and visual culture and a school offering an array of educational courses and programming.

Online

  • CreativeLive: CreativeLive is an online education platform that broadcasts live classes to an international audience. The company has dual headquarters in Seattle and San Francisco, with four in-house production studios. Since 2010, over two billion minutes of course instruction have been watched by millions of students.
  • Retouching Academy: Online platform for the retouching industry professional. Education and business.

Associations & Organizations

  • Aperture Foundation: Aperture Foundation is a nonprofit arts institution, founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan, Dorothea Lange, Nancy Newhall, Beaumont Newhall, Ernest Louie, Melton Ferris, and Dody Warren. Their vision was to create a forum for fine art photography, a new concept at the time.
  • British Institute of Professional Photography: The British Institute of Professional Photography is a not-for-profit organisation for professional photographers in the United Kingdom. Members must be qualified professionals, and agree to be bound by the BIPP’s code of conduct.
  • Federation of European Professional Photographers: The Federation of European Professional Photographers or Federation of European Photographers is a nonprofit organization that organizes national professional photographers associations in the geographic area represented by the Council of Europe and has member organizations in some 29 countries.
  • Society for Photographic Education: The Society for Photographic Education is a nonprofit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography and related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight. 
  • Center for Fine Art Photography: The Center for Fine Art Photography is a non-profit exhibition and education space located in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States.
  • Museum of Photographic Arts: The Museum of Photographic Arts is a museum in San Diego’s Balboa Park. First founded in 1974, MOPA opened in 1983.
  • National Press Photographers Association: The National Press Photographers Association is an American professional association made up of still photographers, television videographers, editors, and students in the journalism field.
  • Center for Photography at Woodstock: The Center for Photography at Woodstock is a not-for-profit artist-centered organization to develop and promote contemporary photography, located in Woodstock, New York.
  • Photographic Society of America: Photographic Society of America is one of the largest, worldwide, non-profit organizations of its kind. Established in 1934, it is for casual shutterbugs, serious amateurs, and professional photographers.
  • Professional Photographers of America: Professional Photographers of America (PPA) is the world’s largest nonprofit photography association organized for professional photographers, by professional photographers, with 30,000 creative members in more than 50 countries.
  • Royal Photographic Society: The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society, is one of the world’s oldest photographic societies.
  • World Photography Organisation: The World Photography Organisation hosts a year-round portfolio of events including the Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s leading photography competition, and PHOTOFAIRS, international art fairs dedicated to photography.
  • World Press Photo: World Press Photo Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955, the organization is known for holding an annual press photography contest.

Businesses & Companies

BFA: BFA is a global leader in the event photography, videography & social media services business, with headquarters in New York City and Los Angeles. Our core staff, along with a growing network of highly trained content creators, proudly serves a client list ranging from emerging fashion brands & artists to blue chip tech firms & super luxury brands. Founded in 2010 by photographers Joe Schildhorn, David X Prutting, Billy Farrell and Neil Rasmus (left to right), BFA is guided by a focused, cohesive philosophy: Images Matter.

Events

  • PHOTOFAIRS is dedicated to presenting fine art photography and moving image from leading international galleries and their artists in dynamic and cutting-edge destinations around the world. PHOTOFAIRS is a joint venture between Angus Montgomery Arts and the World Photography Organisation and is part of a wider network of leading contemporary art fairs including Taipei Dangdai, Sydney Contemporary, India Art Fair, Art Central Hong Kong and Art SG.

Contests & Awards

  • Black and White Spider Awards: Celebrating its 15th year, Black & White Spider Awards is the leading international award honoring black & white photography.
  • Hasselblad Masters Award: Hasselblad Masters Award is an bi-annual award granted by the camera company Hasselblad to selected photographers each year across various specialties in recognition of exceptional accomplishment through photography.
  • IPA: The International Photography Awards™ conducts an annual competition for professional, amateur, and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today.
  • MIFA: MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS’ mission is to recognize, reward and expose talented photographers from around the world and introduce them to the creative community in Russia. Our affiliate competition, Tokyo International Foto Awards exhibits our winners’ work in Tokyo, Japan. Photographers from all corners of the world are encouraged to enter their work.
  • Nikon Photo Contest: The Nikon Photo Contest International has been held by Nikon Corporation since 1969 to provide an opportunity for photographers around the world to communicate and to enrich image-making culture for professionals and amateurs alike.
  • The Sony World Photography Awards: The Sony World Photography Awards is one of the leading free photography competitions. Prizes include cash, camera equipment and flights to London.

Magazines

  • Dark Beauty Magazine is the Avant-Garde High Fashion magazine. Promoting the passion of fashion and the art of storytelling though photography, art, music and more.

News

  • Fstoppers: Fstoppers is an online community aimed at educating and inspiring photographers, videographers, and creative professionals.  Started in 2010 by founders Patrick Hall and Lee Morris, Fstoppers has grown into one of the top resources for photography lighting, gear reviews, business tips, behind the scenes, and industry news. Today the website reaches over 1.5 million photographers and averages around 6 million pageviews a month.  Fstoppers has been featured on NPR, The Huffington Post, Resource Magazine, Mashable, Gizmodo, Tech Crunch, Geek.com, Facebook Business, Vimeo Staff Picks, Adobe, Life Hacker, ABC News, BuzzFeed, and many other industry leading news oulets.  
  • PetaPixel: Established in May of 2009, PetaPixel is a leading blog covering the wonderful world of photography. We love photography, and we want to see others love it too. Our goal is to inform, educate, and inspire in all things photography-related. In case you didn’t know, the “peta” in PetaPixel is the prefix that denotes 1015, just as the “mega” in megapixel denotes 106.

Resources

Stock

  • 500px: 500px is a global online photo-sharing platform that is a subsidiary of Visual China Group. It is based in Toronto, Canada. It was co-founded by Oleg Gutsol and Evgeny Tchebotarev on October 31, 2009.
  • GettyImages: etty Images Holdings, Inc. is an American visual media company and supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video, and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets. It targets three markets—creative professionals, the media, and corporate. 
  • Visual China Group: Visual China Group is a Chinese photo and media agency. Established in 2000, it is a supplier of stock multimedia content to the commercial media industry. VCG is currently the largest stock image and media footage provider in China and third largest in the world.

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