For photographers
Prints and editions, on one page
Sell prints in numbered editions and originals from a shop that is yours, and find the second shooter, the stylist and the model without three weeks of messages.
The print, sold properly
A numbered print is a different thing from a file
The print buyer wants a framed thing for a wall and will pay for paper, numbering and a signature. A shop that treats it as stock of forty identical objects sells it short.
So an edition here is an edition: a stated size, a number, a count that goes down in public and closes itself on the last one. Licensing on Phyrne covers records and films today; for pictures, the picture editor still writes to you.
The shop
What photographers sell here
Editions
A numbered run at a stated size and paper, counting down in public, closed automatically on the last one.
Originals
The one print of its kind, sold once. The page knows it has gone.
Films and slideshows
A moving piece goes up as a release, streamed to anyone and licensed at the price you set.
Read moreDigital goods
Presets, film simulations, lightroom profiles, a workshop PDF. Delivered by an expiring link.
Commissions
Portraits, weddings, documentation for other members. Listed made to order, on your terms and your timeline.
Patronage
A print a quarter, the contact sheets, the essay that goes with the series.
Read moreThe club
The crew and the work that comes from it
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A second shooter for the weekend
A call that names the date, the city and the rate. Answered by members, and the one you accept is a conversation away.
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A stylist, a model, a retoucher
Half of them are members, and the other half know one. This is what introductions are for.
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Documentation work, constantly
Every maker in the club needs their work photographed properly. Some pay; some will swap something you would rather have than money.
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A show, in a room, with the prints on a wall
Members host them. Prints sell at them. The two facts are related.
I photographed a ceramicist's studio for a set of six tumblers, and the pictures became the first edition I sold out. It was the best-paid job I did that month and no money changed hands on the first half.
Questions about photographers
Can I license my photographs here?
How do model and property releases work?
Do you print for me?
What about client galleries and delivery?
Price the print as a print
Editions that count down, originals that sell once, and a club full of people who need their work photographed.