Best Business Practices for Photographers, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

Chapter 39

Working with Nonprofits, Foundations, and Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)

Many people making their way through photography programs at institutes of higher learning come out with the idea that the work they produce will make the world a better place. Among their goals are revealing societal issues to the greater public or piecing together a story that perhaps was intended to remain unknown.

Often, these photographers see becoming a photojournalist as the easiest and fastest path to fulfilling these desires, and thus they seek employment in a newspaper setting. And indeed, for many years this was the case. Upon being hired, being assigned photo equipment and sometimes a company car, filling out the requisite HR paperwork, and being ...