ROYCIN D'SOUZA

Some advice for young photographers interested in working freelance from Roycin D'Souza, a professional music and lifestyle photographer from The Guardian earlier this year. He spends his time filming concerts, shooting portraits for magazines and working with musicians. He has been published in every major Indian publication for his work in music photography.

The one thing about freelance photography or Photography as a profession is networking. If you want a variety of assignments, you need to network well within people of the sphere you're looking at photographing. You find these people on Twitter, their email addresses or contact details are mentioned in Magazines (if they're writers or editors), your friends will know a few people pertaining to what you're doing, and so on.
To catch their eye, you need to be producing before them quality work. This is where your skill comes. If you're been shooting for a while, shortlist your best work and put out a straight forward website with no wasting of time on graphics and fancy sounds. Your employers and clients don't have the time to look for what your best at. They want to see it straight away.
Every genre of Photography has an agency or a company dealing with business related to it. Approach them. There are plenty of event companies looking for good photographers who are easy to work with. Travel tours and publications always look for people who are good within specific demographics.
If you don't approach people, you end up nowhere. There is no harm in approaching the wrong people either. They just might forward you to the right contact. Think about it. You don't need a qualification to get somewhere. If you're doing good photography, let your work speak for itself.

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Young Photographers Competition Exhibition on Tour

The Young Photographer Competition Exhibition goes on tour around Herefordshire in 2013. Dont miss your chance to see the fanstastic winning entries! First stop: Hereford Courtyard.

Exhibition Dates: 11th January - 17th February

Watch this space for more details...