Services

What each includes

Every engagement on the services page, in full: what it is for, what arrives, what it costs.

The residency $6,500. The focused day $1,500. What each includes.

The approach

Every engagement starts with one question: how do you want people to feel when they look at these photos? Not this or that program or activity. Most of what I capture is in between. Before the shoot we settle what the images need to do and what you already have. I make what is missing. The delivery comes back organized by use. On residencies, your media team gets a working session and a field guide. Selected sequences become campaign collections, donor books, calendars, fine-art prints, and gifts.

You're not photographing activities. You're photographing kids and counselors and members of the community engaging with the activity as a context for it.

The engagements

I work with organizations and individuals whose work depends on being seen and felt.

The commissioned fine art book

Best for
An institution that wants the place and its people in hand: a donor book, an anniversary book, the book on the shelf in the office.
Includes
Three nights on-site to build a deep, deployable library that holds up across years and channels. Organized by what each image is for, not the order I shot it. The book laid out and printed in hardcover. The same delivery on a page you can forward. A working session and a field guide for your media team. Print guidance.
Investment
The residency $6,500, plus the book's design at $1,000, copies at press cost and shipping at cost, and travel at cost, agreed before work begins.

The residency on its own · three nights

Best for
An institution that needs breadth: people, place, program, and the hours a day visit never sees.
Includes
The library, organized by use, with the working session, the field guide, and print guidance. Extends to retreat coverage and fine-art print work.
Investment
$6,500, travel at cost.

Two more engagements

Different starting points. Delivered the same way.

The focused day

Best for
One bounded objective, already narrow and known: a campaign, a viewbook, a launch, an event.
Includes
A curated set for that one need, organized by use and ready to deploy.
Investment
$1,500.

The library engagement

Best for
Good photographs you already own, unusable in practice: every summer, every source, in folders nobody can find anything in.
Includes
I review and curate what you have: duplicates removed, dated, every kept frame labeled by its job, organized in your own Drive, with a one-page report of what your appeal, your enrollment page and your feed still lack. You open the delivery already knowing which image is which job.
Investment
$2,500 for up to 4,000 photographs. $4,500 for up to 12,000. Larger libraries quoted before work begins.

And also, I consult.

After the photographs, the work most institutions ask for next.

The media team, run as a system

Daily capture that adds up: coverage priorities set with leadership, a workable model for staff, training, reviews across the season, and the visual system run for you.

Consultation, by the hour

I work with whoever runs your channels, by the hour, to make the photographs do their work on a date. For a December ask, that means an eight-week run-up planned to the day: which frames, in what order, what each post says and when it goes. Every comment answered, and how. Engagement tracked week by week, and every reply, share and tag followed up by a person before the ask lands. Your team runs it; I plan it and check in weekly. $250 an hour; a run-up is usually ten to fifteen hours across eight weeks.

Stewardship

The store. Prints of the released frames on archival paper, by the lab that prints my books, shipped to the buyer's door. Families and alumni order from your page. Sample prices to the buyer: 16x20 $250, 20x30 $450, 24x36 $700; limited editions, 16x20 to 30x45, $450 to $1,500; framing at the lab's cost, quoted first. Prices include shipping in the US. A share of every sale goes to you, set in the agreement and paid quarterly with the list of what sold, at no cost to you. I proof every print before it ships; one that arrives wrong is replaced.

The books, sold. Either book layout can be ordered from your page the same way: the lab prints and ships each copy, and a share of every sale goes to you, set in the agreement.

Framed limited editions. Set up for your auction platform, or as an independent auction. Priced by size. Pieces are usually 24 by 36 inch prints, and larger sizes have sold for $1,000 and more across three camps.

Stewardship gifts. A Shabbat box, a s'mores kit, the photographs inside, assembled as kits for your development team to hand-deliver; quoted per kit. Just doing thank-yous is huge motivation for a development team.

Summary of investment

The store: no cost; a share of every sale to you.
The books: copies at press cost, shipping at cost; sales from your page, a share to you.
The media team, run as a system: quoted with the season.
Framed limited editions: by size.
The whole library, curated: $2,500 to $4,500.
Stewardship gifts: quoted per kit.
Consultation: $250 an hour.

Prices are complete except travel and printing, billed at cost. Anything beyond them is agreed in writing before work begins. Retouching and print preparation, when a use calls for them, are quoted per frame before work begins.

Why the photographs hold their value

A good photograph holds its value because nothing about it ages. It prints at its largest honest size in any year and needs no player and no format.

It creates value because it gets used, and every use after the first costs nothing. One frame carries the donor book and the annual report, and the same library fills the enrollment page and the lobby wall. Organized by what each image is for, one week of photographs becomes years of material.

Some of that value has a price on it. A donor album reached more than two hundred donors, and a national Shabbat box carried the photographs into homes across four cities. When a camp shared its night photographs, a parent asked to print and frame one for her kid. Some of it becomes art the moment the institution decides it is: a print in the guest room, a book on the shelf.

Personal branding

For facilitators, leaders, and individuals: one session, $1,600, on its own page.

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Noah Gallagher

I ran camps for about twenty years before I photographed them. Ranch Camp in Denver, Tel Yehudah, CYJ in the Midwest. I bring that up because the seeing is the hard part of this, not the camera.

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