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Recently I responded to a request for submissions on MM - my shoot was accepted and published. It's an online Print On Demand magazine so I didn't get paid, but as a semi-pro photographer I'm good with that. I submitted a second shoot to the same magazine, and I believe it's been accepted too. Inspired by this I went looking for other magazines to submit to. I discovered a site called Kavyar.com which hosts a number of magazines - however there seems to be a 'pay to play' attitude; if you want your submission to be even considered then in most cases it'll cost you, and they'll happily sell you an 'alternative' cover for a few $00 - riiiight. (Additionally the site administrators aren't particularly responsive - I'm still waiting for my profile to be approved.) So my question is, what's a good way to find magazines worth submitting to? Are the magazines on Kavyar worth pursuing? Are there lists of magazines, ordered by style anywhere? (I searched the forums but came up blank). May 24 18 06:31 pm Link POD is vanity press.. it's not a 'magazine'..it's not being 'published' if they ask for pay..just make your own magazine with Magcloud or Blurb however.. if it doesn't cost you anything.. it's a cool way to get your work into something physical I've done it before and will in the future I'm sure.. but it ain't 'being published' I also make my own 'magazines' and 'books' so I can group my work in various ways and have something physical to look at and show May 25 18 09:29 am Link So nobody here submits to magazines? May 29 18 10:49 pm Link Welllll, I submit work to model railroad and model aircraft magazines. Most often the helpful hints but sold at least one feature to Garden Railways. ( April 2013) The $180 wasn't hard to take. Model is a model right? :-) Used to be a book with tons of mags and such along with contact info. Forget the name. I'm sure others here remember it. Edit: Found it, Photographer's Market $17+ Amazon May 29 18 11:39 pm Link Models have my permission to submit and they often have ... but I don't count any of it as PUBLISHING since they don't even send me a thank you... or a copy! Providing them with free content doesn't make me happy - but i do not mind so long as they spell my name right Jun 17 18 04:52 pm Link Reese is right. Look into the photographer's Market. It is, or at least use to be a great resource. I haven't bought a copy since 2010 but I use to get one every year. Once upon a time I'd get a decent amount of editorial work but, in my case at least, those days are pretty much over. So many rags have gone the way to the dinosaur. Luckily my business started branching in a different direction about the same time that the rages started shutting down. That wasn't by design and only happened by chance but it all worked out and I have been able to stay afloat. Jun 18 18 07:55 am Link DaveTong wrote: you are not getting the idea. you need to understand the real market. there are photographers who "submit" to magazines; but the percentage of photographers who have decent images and the number of real magazines that will accept submitted images with no story are small. Jun 18 18 09:26 am Link Leonard Gee Photography wrote: Back in the day when there was more editorial work available I'd agree. I have never submitted any image to a rag. I have however submitted a stock list and gotten further inquiry to see examples. Jun 19 18 05:34 am Link Nov 14 18 09:54 am Link goofus wrote: A vanity press is when the author pays to have a work published. Print on Demand means something is printed on demand, not as a large run. One is a payment method, the other is printing process. They are not one and the same. A vanity press does not necessarily print on demand and things printed on demand are not necessarily done so by a vanity press. Nov 16 18 01:44 pm Link Abbitt Photography wrote: do you get a copy for yourself for free?? or do you have to go to blurb or magcloud and buy one?? Nov 17 18 10:17 am Link Nov 18 18 11:44 am Link goofus wrote: If I buy a print on demand book, I pay for it just as a would a book with a large offset print run. Regardless of the printing method, printing has costs and the printer will want to be paid for their printing services. Similarly what one pays or is paid when published is not inherently linked to the printing process. Nov 18 18 11:47 am Link Abbitt Photography wrote: technically you are correct - yes Nov 18 18 04:26 pm Link Nov 20 18 08:42 am Link I think many people are missing a critical point with any magazine, whether POD or Store Shelf, reach/volume of distribution. Most POD's have horrible distribution, yet there are some that have amazing online reach. As someone who founded and ran one of the largest online magazine I can tell you we had a following of over 420k on Instagram with a reach of over 1.5 Million. Our website received near 1 Million visits per year, but our POD distribution was mostly to those that were in the edition. This is why I chose to stop print. (The new owner has rekindled print) As for where/how to submit, find magazines that fit your style. If you just want something printed in your hand, there are plenty of those around. If you want a quality, reputable, selective magazine then do your research. You'll need to find the ones that fit your style and submit based on what fits for them. If your images do not match what they are currently publishing, move on. Nov 20 18 08:55 am Link I was just looking at one of those online/POD magazines last night and honestly I don't think I get it. Is there really any value in submitting and getting "published" other than the ego stroke? Are submitters providing free content for the magazine producers to make money from? Nov 21 18 04:23 pm Link Gary Davis wrote: When I was shooting more often, I used to submit to several POD magazines. The value I received was that more people saw my work, and more people were interested in shooting with me. I had several models who traveled from the West Coast who altered their travel plans to shoot with me. Nov 21 18 07:55 pm Link As a model, being published [even in print-on-demand magazines] allows for my name and work to be circulated out to a potentially wider audience than my portfolio sites and social media alone. I have never paid to be published in a magazine, and dislike the idea of doing so. I have only ever put images or sets forward for publication with full permission from the photographer. I tend to look for alternative fashion, alternative or goth-focused magazines for publication, given how that is what I predominantly model genre-wise. Nov 22 18 06:00 am Link I'm trying something with a magazine I started where models and photographers submit to my magazine and once the magazine reaches 3000 in sales (hopefully) whoever submitted the set gets $500. Models seem to love the idea however the only issue that models are running into is getting the photographer of the set they wanna submit to give them the 300dpi files. Nov 23 18 09:30 pm Link |