We are building an annual digital photography "summer camp" for passionate photographers looking for:
- Community
- The next step on their creative journey
- A trusted space for online education
- A place to find their next best photo friend
- Consistent inspiration
And for educators looking for:
- Educator community
- How to give back to their photo community
- The next step on their education journey
- A place to profit from their deep knowledge
A slow season project for busy creatives
When the season slows down, the sun gets low, many of us have a lot more time to plan and organize.
This "summer camp" takes place in the prefect slot in the year, early February. After the holidays, but enough time left in the winter to plan and build.
All from the comfort of home
Grab a cup of tea, put on your favorite jammies, and our members can join from the comfort of anywhere.
Home for us as well
Our educators are welcome to join us up in Traverse City, but all of the planning and content can be created from your own home as well.
What are we looking for?
Who are we excited to see on our education team?
Photography Experience
Most of our educators are photographers, that does not mean you HAVE to be, but your experiences should be valuable to an audience of photographers.
You do not need to have a lifetime of experience to teach, but be humble, when you are ready to teach, you will know. There is no shame in not being ready.
Education Experience
Many of us at Photo Camp have experiences teaching, or helping other creatives and photographers. This drive to help, support, and create with others is a powerful force.
If this is your first time, we can offer support. We would rather see passionate creatives that need help learning to teach, rather than burned out teachers looking to make a buck.
A Unique Point of View
We have courses on Camera 101, there are lots of courses out there to tell people how to use photoshop basics. Instead we are looking for creatives that want to push the industry forward.
What can you teach this community that ONLY YOU know. What unique experiences do you bring that are learned the hard way?
Basically, if it is a bad idea… we wanna hear it.
A Positive Vibe/Good Energy
Above all else, this is a summer camp for creatives. We are here to motivate, inspire, and create an atmosphere of fun and play. I don’t care if you are the best photographer or teacher in the world… bad vibes = not interested.
Come here humble, curious, excited, and ready to play. Otherwise, there are TON’S of other places to sling camera advice.
What if this all feels right?
If you have these things, and are just straight up excited to be reading this, we want to learn with you, and build along side you! Keep reading below, and let us know what you are thinking!!!
What we take care of:
Infrastructure
Streaming tech, a hub for everything to live in, plus coordination of the event itself.
Course Sales
Courses will be available after the fact in our course marketplace. We will proudly sell all of the courses that we have in the camp with a similar revenue split.
Marketing Direction
While we all will be marketing this event, our team will coordinate the marketing plans, and make sure that it feels cohesive and professional.
How does money work here?
Photo Camp is free to attend, but there is a very nice upgrade option that we call the Pathfinder VIP Upgrade.
For every upgrade that is sold with your code, you keep 50% of the revenue.
Here is what we will need from every one of our educators:
Topic/Signature Talk
What are you known for? What are you good at?
01
At least 1 recording session with us
Our sessions for camp will be prerecorded, this can be done over zoom if you are not local.
02
30-45 mins of finalized content
When all is said and done, your session need to fill a 30-45 block in our camp.
03
Written version of talk for worksheets
All of our courses will come with set of worksheets, your course must be able to be converted into a worksheet as well.
04
Portrait + social content for marketing
We will need marketing materials to help promote the camp.
05
An open mind for brainstorming and planning
All of our educators are responsible for helping market and get the word out. We are really looking for partners that see this as a huge resource for our community.
06
How we support our educators
Again, we are looking for passionate, creative, and great humans with unique experiences. If that is you, but you need help with other aspects, here is what we would love to help with:
Ready to apply to join us?
Drop your email and name below and we will reach out asap! We will want to setup a time to chat, and make sure that this program is the right fit, on both sides.
Annual Camp
This camp is planned to be an annual event, so even if this is not your year, let us know you are still interested, and we will see if next year is in the cards.
Physical Camp
While not a promise, we really do want to do a physical summer camp if there is enough interest. We will also want educators up here in Traverse City/NoMI for that. Keep that in mind.