New Humanitarian Photography Interest Group

Lately there have been exciting conversations about photography among NGOs, thanks to a new group called the Humanitarian Photography Interest Group.  Read more

Interview with NGO Photographer Rick D’Elia

Rick D’Elia is an NGO photographer with a strong photojournalism background.  I recently had a chance to interview him about how and why he shoots for NGOs. Read more

Free Resources for Marketing Your Photography Business

Many of you know Photoshelter, a popular online company for sharing photos with your clients. They now have many excellent, free Photoshelter documents that are very useful to NGO photographers trying to market themselves. To give you a taste, they have:

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Great New NGO Storytelling Blog

Here’s a great new blog from NGO photographer and videographer Laura Pohl called “NGO Storytelling:  A resource for telling stories about international development and humanitarian issues.” Read more

4 Things I Look For When Hiring a Photographer, Part 4

So far we’ve covered the first three criteria I use when deciding whether or not to hire photographers who contact me: the quality of their NGO photos, the quality of their captioning, and whether we can afford their day rate or not. The fourth and last criteria may be the most important, and I think it might surprise you… Read more

4 Things I Look For When Hiring a Photographer, Part 3

When I rate photographers who contact me to determine if they’re worth hiring or not, my first criteria is how good their NGO photos are, the second is how good their captioning is, and the third is… Read more

4 Things I Look For When Hiring a Photographer, Part 2

When considering a photographer to hire, I expect excellent NGO photos.  That’s just a given, but that’s also just the starting point.  The second criteria I use to sort out excellent NGO photographers from the not-so-great is… Read more

4 Things I Look For When Hiring a Photographer, Part 1

I’m going to give it to you straight: there are a lot of photographers — good ones — who want to shoot for NGOs. And by a lot, I mean a lot.  Competition for NGO jobs is really tight. Just think about all of the newspapers who have let photographers go over the past three years. Read more