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Her intuitive
commitment to color, style and composition, complimented by her relentless
attention to detail, are the catalysts of her prolific career in architecture
and interior design photography. Currently, Liz specializes in capturing
magical images of luxury homes. Her dedication to excellence brings
the intimate details to life. Liz's images can be seen in regional and
national Architecture and Design magazines.
CODE
OF ETHICS
As a member
of the American Society of Media Photographers, ASMP, I have chosen
to adopt their Code of Ethics as a basis to run my business. This Code
aims to protect our industry, photographers, vendors, employees, subjects,
customers and colleagues.
Responsibility
to colleagues and the profession:
1. Maintain
a high quality of service and a reputation honesty and fairness.
2. Oppose censorship and protect the copyrights and moral rights of
other creators.
3. Never advance one's own interests at the expense of the profession.
4. Foster fair competition based on professional qualification and merit.
5. Never deliberately exaggerate one's qualifications, nor misrepresent
the authorship of work presented in self-promotion.
6. Never engage in malicious or deliberately inaccurate criticism of
the reputation or work of another photographer.
7. Negotiate licensing agreements that protect the historical balance
between usage fees and rights granted.
8. Never offer nor accept bribes, kickbacks, or other unethical inducements.
9. Never conspire with others to fix prices, organize illegal boycotts,
nor engage in other unfair competitive practices.
10. Refuse agreements that are unfair to the photographer.
11. Never undertake assignments in competition with others for which
payment will be received only if the work is accepted.
12. Never enter commercial competitions in which usage rights are transferred
without reasonable fees.
13. Donate time for the betterment of the profession and to advise entry-level
photographers.
Responsibility
to subjects:
14. Respect the privacy and property rights of one's subjects.
15. Never use deceit in obtaining model or property releases.
Responsibility
to clients:
16. Conduct
oneself in a professional manner, and represent a client's best interests
within the limits of one's professional responsibility.
17. Protect a client's confidential information; Assistants should likewise
maintain confidentiality of the photographer's proprietary information.
18. Accurately represent to clients the existence of model and property
releases for photographs.
19. Stipulate a fair and reasonable value for lost or damaged photographs.
20. Use written contracts and delivery memos with a client, stock agency,
or assignment representative.
21. Consider an original assignment client's interests with regard to
allowing subsequent stock use of that work by the client's direct competition,
absent an agreement allowing such use.
Responsibility
to employees and suppliers:
22. Honor
one's legal, financial and ethical obligations toward employees and
suppliers.
23. Never take unfair advantage of one's position as employer of models,
assistants, employees or contract labor.
Responsibility
of the photojournalist:
24. Photograph
as honestly as possible, provide accurate captions, and never intentionally
distort the truth in news photographs.
25. Never alter the content or meaning of a news photograph and prohibit
subsequent alteration.
26. Disclose any alteration or manipulation of content or meaning in
editorial feature or illustrative photographs and require the publisher
to disclose that distortion or any further alteration.
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