JT Spunk | Photography

Where can I get photography industry information?

For all the people who are in photography, where or how do you obtain photography industry information. I need some hard facts, market size all that good stuff..anyone have any great places or resources other than the library (trust me I’ve tried).
I am in New York City
Yes it is me

Photo District News is a good resource for general news – (online at www.pdnonline.com or at your newstand) but it is centered in NY – so it’s coverage of mid America or the west coast or the south (particularly Texas – and to a lesser extent Atlanta) is not as full as I’d like.

ASMP the American Society of Media Photographers has members from all over and they may be able to fill in some gaps or point you in the right direction

The better trade magazines that will point you in the right direction are usually heavily biased toward commercial work done by ad agencies (as opposed to fine art or portrait/wedding) – and the best of these (which will have ads for creative resources, data bases you can buy into etc.) is Communication Arts. (www.commarts.com)

Before the web, (don’t know about now…) Creative Access out of Chicago was a firm that maintained databases of art directors and art buyers. Photographers and illustrators would buy their lists – local, regional and national – for a direct mail list.

Regional film commissions (i.e., state agencies) typically have this sort of data as well as professional producers associations (there’s one in Dallas for example)

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