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COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICES

DISTINCTIVE ADVERTISING IMAGERY FOR BRANDS, HOSPITALITY, TRAVEL, ARCHITECTURE, AND ORGANIZATIONS.

I create purposeful imagery for brands, small businesses, individuals, and hospitality organizations to communicate, promote, sell, and strengthen their presence across traditional and digital marketing, advertising, sales, and brand communications. For marketing and communications directors, I create top-of-funnel imagery that captures attention, builds brand awareness, and introduces B2B and B2C brands to new audiences — supporting the customer journey from first impression to consideration. From imagery designed to attract attention and introduce your business to potential customers to campaign-specific photography supporting advertising, sales, and marketing initiatives, each assignment is developed around the intended purpose and use of the imagery. The goal is to create imagery that serves a specific business objective, communicates your brand with clarity and impact, and gives your marketing team visual assets designed for where and how they will be used.

Commercial photography projects are priced and structured around three primary components: creative production, production expenses, and image usage and licensing. Each project is individually estimated according to its scope, creative requirements, production needs, and intended usage. Commercial imagery may be created for digital marketing campaigns, websites, social media, sales presentations, brochures, marketing collateral, publications, trade shows, billboards, and regional or national campaigns.

DELIVERABLES

Campaign Imagery · Website Photography · Social Content · Advertising Imagery · Licensing / Usage

Have a project you're looking to bring to life? I'd love to hear about it. Reach out by phone or visit the CONTACT / START A PROJECT page and share a few details about your goals, your vision, and the imagery you're looking to create. Let's start with a conversation — I'd be happy to discuss your vision and how I can capture your signature imagery.

STOCK IMAGERY

SIGNATURE IMAGERY FOR COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING AND BRAND USE.

Have your eye on an existing image from my collection? I'd be happy to explore how you can use it for your business, advertising, or other commercial needs. Reach out with the image you're interested in, and I can discuss licensing and pricing.

Nationwide Average Annual Usage Fees — Per Image

One-year, non-exclusive commercial licensing

Social Media: $500–$800 / per image / per year
Website / Digital: $500–$800 / per image / per year
Brochures & Catalogs: $500–$1,200 / per image / per year
Editorial / Magazines: $500–$1,000 / per image / per year
Posters & Large-Format Displays: $750–$1,500 / per image / per year
Paid Advertising: $800–$2,000+ / per image / per year

Final pricing may vary based on circulation, audience, territory, placement, and scope of use. Exclusive and extended licensing is quoted separately.

THE ART OF COMMISSIONED PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES

TAILOR-MADE FINE ART FOR CORPORATE INTERIORS, EDUCATIONAL & SPIRITUAL INSTITUTIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONS.

"THE ABILITY TO MAKE A TRULY ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPH IS NOT ACQUIRED OFF-HAND, BUT IS THE RESULT OF AN ARTISTIC INSTINCT COUPLED WITH YEARS OF LABOR." — ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946), A PIONEERING AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, GALLERY OWNER, AND MODERN ART PROMOTER

Commissioned photography is a different kind of service — not advertising photography, but original photographic artwork created specifically for a space. The tradition of commissioned artwork has existed for centuries. Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, commissioned for the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, and Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals, commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Arts for its courtyard, are celebrated examples of artwork created specifically for an institution and its environment.

For corporate interiors, educational and spiritual institutions, and organizations, a commissioned project may involve creating original photographic artwork for corporate offices, hotels, resorts, restaurants, campuses, or other professional environments. The imagery can showcase an organization's accomplishments, history, identity, or brand while becoming a permanent part of the organization's interior environment. This is wall art made for you and your space — not mass-produced décor — while honoring the fine arts tradition of commissioning and supporting a working artist. Unlike commercial photography created for advertising campaigns, marketing, or promotional use, these commissions are intended as original artwork for the people who experience the space.

Every space tells a story. Yours should tell your own. Your organization has its own history, achievements, and culture, and I work with you to translate that story into imagery that belongs in your space, and nowhere else. This kind of commission suits corporate offices and headquarters looking to reflect their identity and milestones, hotels and resorts seeking a genuine sense of place for their guests, restaurants building atmosphere and story into the dining experience, educational institutions capturing campus life and legacy for the community that lives it, spiritual and religious institutions honoring tradition and belonging, and organizations of any kind whose walls deserve something more than the generic.

DELIVERABLES

Original Artwork · Fine-Art Prints · Custom Framing · Installation

Have a project you're looking to bring to life? I'd love to hear about it. Reach out by phone or visit the CONTACT / START A PROJECT page and share a few details about your goals, your vision, and the imagery you're looking to create. Let's start with a conversation — I'd be happy to discuss your vision and how I can capture your signature imagery.