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Member Benefits - what we can do for you: Discounts

Discounts

We have negotiated a range of discounts with key suppliers for our members.

The AOP is a member of the Members Benefit Programme from Apple. This means you can purchase their products at substantial savings, including up to 8% off a new Mac.

For further information, login to the AOP Apple store via your member dashboard or call 0800 058 2222.

Other trade discounts include:

  • 15% off the rate card price from the Bikini List
  • 10% off at Cowling and Wilcox portfolios/art supplies
  • A discounted hourly rate with specialist media lawyers, Swan Turton (contact Gwen Thomas for further info)
  • Up to 40% discount on insurance from Towergate Camerasure
  • Free subscription to our newly launched Image Magazine app

Check your dashboard for the full range.

We are hoping to announce further member discounts shortly.

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Member Workshop, Summer Drinks and World Cup

We are delighted to announce that the first of our new workshops for AOP members will take place at Holborn Studios on Tuesday 8th July from 3pm.

An interactive format, hosted by Stephen Coe (Founding AOP Member) and Steve Knight (AOP Chair), featuring AOP members Norman Childs and Clive Boursnell - who will both show their work and engage in informal discussions, around the unexpected changes in their extensive careers in photography.

We expect around 45 minutes for each talk with extra time for a Q&A whenever desired.

Mid-session - tea, coffee and soft drinks will be available.

3pm: Norman Childs - ACHIEVABLE GOLD:
Presentation & discussion on planning new goals in changing conditions.

4.30pm: Clive Boursnell - A PASSION FOR PROJECTS:
Recording Opera or Recreating historic gardens for the printed page.

When discussions in the studio conclude, we will move to the outside deck area (weather permitting) at the Commissary bar & restaurant from 6pm for an opportunity to catch up with members over a beer and a burger. If any members cannot attend the talks then please do try to attend the drinks as this will be a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, meet new friends and see the AOP’s canalside home in Islington.

At 9pm there will be a live screening of one of the World Cup semi-finals, an ideal way to round-off a great event!

This workshop is free to attend, however you will need to reserve a ticket. To book your place, please go to our Eventbrite page - link




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Member benefits – what we can do for you

This month we focus on a crucial part of any business – marketing.

As an AOP member you have the chance to promote your work via our monthly Image Folio mailing that goes to over 40,000 commissioners of photography around the world.

The newsletter features a selection of images plus links to the relevant member’s AOP listing. Each month we randomly select four images from the first four lines of the Image folio, so don’t forget to update your images on the AOP site.

We will notify the selected members before the mailer is distributed and then follow-up with stats to aid the marketing efforts of the selected photographers.


In addition to Image Folio we also offer publicity for our members via the AOP’s social media channels – we have over 14,000 followers spread across Facebook and Twitter.

If you have any news you’d like to shout about, please email Pete Brandon - pete@2headsdesign.co.uk - and he’ll do the rest. It’s always good to include a web link and image if possible.

Last month our website had over 9,000 unique visitors and 2,000 of those made a search on the ‘find a photographer’ page – another reason to make sure your listing is up-to-date and all your web links are correct.

Your work can feature on the slideshow on AOP’s homepage – and be the first thing seen by all those 1,000’s of visitors. There are detailed instructions on how to make these panels, along with how to send them in on the member’s dashboard on the AOP site - members dashboard> member downloads > information and application forms >How to send us Your ‘Home Page Panels’.

Let us help promote your exhibition listings, just email Rachel Rogers on exhibitions@aophoto.co.uk and she will add your info to the listings area of the AOP website. Keep checking the listings page for up to date photography exhibitions, events, talks and seminars - link

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Member news


It’s been a busy period for many of our members with books being published, exhibitions hosted, talks given and prestigious shoots aplenty.

Here’s a small selection of what some of you have been up to:

Sam Robinson’s latest project has caused something of a social media stir.

The hashtag #IWANTABOOKSAM is being used to promote Sam’s second Workbook – a carefully chosen selection of Sam’s recent photography. The Workbook is also a notebook designed for everyday use (and very nice it is too!).

People were invited to visit Twitter, enter the hashtag #IWANTABOOKSAM then select their favourite colour book to be sent a free copy (subject to stock).

The project is a joint venture between Sam, designers Studio Worldwide and paper manufacturers GF Smith.

There’s more information here   


Julian Calverley has just published a book, ‘#iPhoneonly’ which, as the title suggests, is a collection of iPhone images.

Julian is better known for his large scale landscape work, but has recently been also shooting on his iPhone. As Wayne Ford says the foreword: “…the photographs Julian takes with his iPhone are not simply visual notes of possible locations – they’re beautifully crafted and exquisite works in their own right.’

While other books have been published containing work shot with cameraphones, this is the first time a fine art landscape book has been made solely with an iPhone.

#iPhoneonly is available now via link


James Russell Cant will be speaking at The Photographers’ Gallery on Saturday 21st June, on his project ‘The Decisive and Other Moments’ - a series of up to year-long exposures recorded by both pinhole and conventional cameras.


It’s a free event, but booking is essential, check out this link for further details

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Summer group online exhibition reminder

The theme for this year’s group online exhibition is ‘natural’.

It’s a broad theme and could include landscapes, portraits, lifestyle, travel etc - the list is endless.

Selected submissions will form a curated online exhibition. The exhibition will be showcased on the AOP Website from 16th July until 1st September 2014.

Please note that the deadline for submissions is 7th July 2014.

To download a check sheet with full information on the exhibition, please click here 

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Online exhibition latest

The next AOP Online Exhibition features the work of Lorentz Gullachsen. It opens today (17th June) and runs until 15th July.

During the Stratford-upon-Avon Arts Festival, Gullachsen set up a pop-up studio in the town’s square complete with a screen that displayed the results as he shot his personal project, ‘Bards Town Portraits’.

Gullachsen was drawn towards faces that Shakespeare would have recognised and maybe used as the model for characters in his plays. Photographing the artists, production crew, civil dignitaries and by inviting members of the public who engaged with the festival, over 100 portraits form the collection of which this exhibition represents a selection.

The subjects were all required to wear velvet cloaks that obscured fashion and hopefully produced images that have a timeless quality, although lit with a cinematic and theatrical approach.

Go to link to see Lorentz’s work.

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DACS update

 

 

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Members who claim Payback from DACS (The Design and Artists Copyright Society) will have recently received an email from them.

Please don't be alarmed by it, DACS need to ensure they legally represent your secondary rights (the rights you can't control yourself, such as photocopying), due to new legislation. The following note was posted by David Hoffman, on the EPUK site, following a number of photographers voicing their concerns:

"DACS distributes over £4 million in royalties through their Payback scheme each year. The money covers things such as the photocopying of visual work in books and magazines (known as secondary rights) which we’d not be able to bill for individually. If you are a Payback claimant then you will have had an email from DACS asking you to become a DACS member and to give DACS an exclusive licence to negotiate, claim and administer your secondary rights.

Forthcoming changes in the law have put these rights – and the payments we receive – under threat. There are other organisations that may try to claim that they already own these rights and can licence them without making the payments to us that we currently receive through Payback. In order to protect our income DACS needs to be able to demonstrate that they and no other organisation has the right to administer these secondary rights in our work."

It is important that you sign up to become a DACS member and the AOP encourages you to sign and return the form. For further information on DACS, go to link

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The Image magazine App

Hopefully you are one of the many people who have downloaded the first issue of the iPad version of ImageMagazine.

For those that do not have access to an iPad, it can be viewed via this link
 
We’ve been delighted with the number of downloads (currently around 1,300) and increasing daily. This has far exceeded all our expectations – many thanks to you all for your support. 

The more people who subscribe to Image, the better it is for the AOP and for our members so please keep sharing the link with anyone you think may be interested

We’re also keen for any feedback on issue one so please head to our Facebook or Twitter pages, or email us directly at image@aophoto.co.uk

As an AOP member you are entitled to a free subscription to the app, further details of this will follow nearer the publication of issue two.

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