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Ensuring your tax returns are completed correctly and then delivered on time is an annual headache for many photographers, and especially those who work as independents on a freelance basis. The reasons why you need an accountant and understanding how one could help often seems like a black art that no one is willing to explain. Well we are, and whatever your current financial position, you cannot afford not to read our easy-to-understand guide to tax and accounting It Doesn’t Have To Be That Taxing on page 52.

When it comes to getting new clients, it always starts with your book/portfolio. Even in this world of websites, most clients want to see a well printed and presented set of images. Regular contributor Clive Booth decided it was time to start work on a new book at the end of last year, and he brings us his tips, advice and experiences in a Dispatches special Me, Myself, I! on page 58.

Two photographers working in very different fields, Bob Martin and Nigel Parry certainly know how to win and keep clients. Bob is the only non US-based photographer in the world shooting for the prestigious US title Sports Illustrated. He speaks to us about his career and how to capture the decisive sporting moment in This Sporting Life on page 46.

Nigel Parry left London in the early nineties to live and work in New York and hasn’t looked back. Now, as one of the leading portrait photographers in the world, he speaks to us about the need for consistency and nervousness in An Englishman in New York on page 72.

Someone at the other end of the career spectrum is young wedding photographer Kevin Mullins, who shares his experiences of his first year in the business on page 37 in First Year Report. If you’re thinking of moving into the world of fine art, auctions and galleries, there are no better people to hear from than the people to whom we asked
the question: Who Buys Photography? on page 66. We also speak to the director of The Photographers’ Gallery in London Brett Rogers about the best ways to get exhibited in Frontline on page 29.

As far as technology is concerned, you can’t get much more cutting edge than the use of CGI in photography. It’s being used a lot in car photography, but who knows where it’s going next? Check out the work currently being   created in Drive-By Shooting on page 79. We also put the Leica M9 into the hands of Magnum legend Ian Berry
for review. All this, plus editing tips, Bruce Weber and Guy Gowan.
 

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