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Photography Terms and Conditions

Do I Need a Photography Contract?

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photography terms and conditions

Photography terms and conditions, or a photography contract or agreement, are different from the terms and conditions used by other businesses. A photography contract requires you to consider a number of factors which are unique to providing photography services as well on top of the key commercial and legal terms.

Having robust and tailored terms and conditions for your photography business is invaluable to protect you from legal risks.

Being very clear in writing about all these terms really does give the best chance of success not to have disputes with your clients, which can be extremely distracting, costly and potentially damage your brand if it’s a big dispute, or they leave a horrible Google review or Facebook review.

Whether you are a commercial photographer, a wedding photographer, a fashion/model photographer, landscape or wildlife photographer or something else, you need to protect your work. Read on for more information on the importance of having robust and tailored photography terms and conditions, and what they should contain.

How Do You Write Terms and Conditions for Photography?

The following are key terms to consider including in your photography terms and conditions.

All photographers have a certain style they apply to their photographs and require a certain level of reasonable artistic freedom when capturing and editing their photographs, so it’s important to make your clients aware of this.

Including a Force Majeure clause is very useful as it essentially states that you, the photographer, are not liable to your client in the event you are prevented from performing your services due to an event beyond your control, such as government restrictions on non-essential trade due to COVID-19 case spikes.

Related Article: Force majeure clauses and COVID-19

Should I use a free photography service agreement template?

In short. No. Very few templates will actually properly cover you for exactly what you’re doing.

Some we have seen don’t provide much legal protection at all.

Although you don’t have any obligations to engage a lawyer to draft your photography service agreement, it’s highly recommended to ensure the terms fit the needs of your business. You also need to make sure that the document contains terms relating to the Laws applicable in your country or state.

This is why you should seek assistance from an experienced lawyer, instead of using a free photography service agreement template. Some we’ve found people using in Australia were US based documents or elsewhere around the world and many of those weren’t worth the paper they were written on.

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Photography Terms and Conditions FAQs

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Get in Touch

As a photographer, it’s best to have a legally drafted set of terms and conditions in order to make your customers aware of their obligations, and have your terms clearly defined.

Progressive Legal can draft your standard photographer terms and conditions for a fixed fee starting from $1,400 + GST (from $1,200 + GST for a start-up) which includes all associated advice, taking your instructions, drafting the documents and a round of changes if necessary.

The terms are completely tailored for your business so you know they will cover you for what you are doing.

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