PHOTOS FOR MEDIA - Free Online Pro Photo Resource

Shutha.org is a free online resource developed by Africa Media Online in association with World Press Photo for professional photographers and for photographic training institutions in Africa and the Majority World. It aims to pro photographers to:
1. understand world markets for your work and know how to successfully access and sell to those markets

2. know how to relate professionally to buyers around the world so that they want to keep working with you
3. learn how to deliver photography and multimedia products to buyers at the right standard so they come back for more
4. build a long-term archive of your work that earns you more money over time


Created by author of the DAM Book, Peter Krogh, UK Imaging consultant, Graeme Cookson, Multimedia specialist and World Press Photo trainer DJ Clark as well as South Africans Dominique Le Roux of Moonshine Media and David and Rosanne Larsen of Africa Media Online, the resource is made available under a Creative Commons license and photographic training institutions as well as photographers can draw on the resource and even include it in their training programmes. David Larsen will introduce you to the resource and how it can be best put to use to train others or to benefit your own photographic career. The resource was launched at the World Press Photo Awards in Amsterdam, Holland, in May this year and it is developing and growing over time drawing on insights from leading practitioners, buyers and editors in the global photographic industry. Head of training and deputy director of World Press Photo, Martin Koets said "It is the best online photographic training resource I have ever seen."
David Larsen is Managing Director of Africa Media Online an organisation dedicated to enabling Africans to tell Africa's story. In 2011 David was a Member of the World Press Photo Africa nominating committee for the Joop Swart Masterclass and a nominator for National Geographic's All Roads Photography Programme. In 2009 David was a judge in the Sony Profoto Awards and a nominator for the Joop Swart Masterclass.