Alternative Photographers' Network

Alternative Photographers' Network is a "not for profit" organisation and exists to promote the work of emerging creative photographers.  All membership income is used to maintain, support and promote the website as a vehicle for reaching a world-wide showcase for the work of our members.  Alternative Photographers' Network offers a unique service to amateur and professional photographers to showcase samples of their work to a worldwide audience.  As a member, you can get this at a realistic annual cost without any of the worries of setting up and maintaining a website of your own.  You can use it to sell your images, to attract viewers to your existing website or simply to share your work with the Internet community.

Membership options

Basic membership costs £30 per year payable in advance by credit card.  This entitles you to showcase one page of your images as you can see on the existing pages (see example page).  Don’t worry if you don’t know how to produce a page layout, we will do this for you free of charge from your jpeg files.  In fact, for a small extra charge we will even scan your prints for you.

If you want additional pages, these are available at an additional charge of £5 per page per year each.   (A page comprises a maximum of 12 images each not to exceed 20kb).

How to sell your work

There are many photographers who simply wish to share their work with other photographers, or those who share an interest in it, and do not intend to gain an income from their hobby.  However, if you are a professional or even an amateur hoping to offset the cost of your hobby, we are happy to help you.

If you want to sell your work through our service, we are prepared to accept orders on your behalf on a commission basis.  This gives added security to you and your customers.

Alternatively you may deal directly with prospective purchasers by including your email address on each of your pages, or by including a link to your own site if you have one (see example page).  This service is charged at £5 per year in addition to the basic membership charge, regardless of how many pages you are showcasing.

What we need from you

·         Information about yourself and your work (optional).

·         Price indication.  If you want us to sell the images for you, you must either tell us the price you want for each image, or you can simply specify the price band you want from our standard price range (see price guide on "ordering" page).

·         Your copyright images.  12 jpeg files (max 20kb each) to which you assign us copyright only for exhibition on the Alternative Photographers' Network website.

·         If you want us to scan the images for you, we require 12 images (prints or slides) together with a SAE if you want them returned.  There is a one-off scanning and handling fee of £10.

·         A declaration that you are the copyright holder of all images you send us.

·         How many pages you want. 

How to join

Simply email us at the address below, with the information stated above.  Make sure you give us your email details accurately so that we can confirm receipt of your application and give you a reference number.

Once we have received your details we will email you with a unique reference number, confirming the membership options you have chosen. 

If you have chosen to send us jpeg image files you can then reply to this confirmation attaching your images, together with the information about yourself which you wish to be included on each of your pages.  (This information may be different for each page, but  Alternative Photographers' Network reserves the right to edit these details).

If you have asked us to scan your images for you, we will send you an email with postal details for you to send your prints for scanning.

Your pages will be set up within 10 working days and you will be notified by email when this is complete and you can view your pages on the  Alternative Photographers' Network site.