The American Fashion Guild is an organization comprised of professionals in the American, commercial fashion industry. The AFG is the premier outlet for honoring achievements in the fashion industry and supporting the American fashion community. The AFG Fashion Award is a peer-presented award to honor artistic and professional achievements, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the fashion industry. The AFG is expanding its goals from the important work of recognizing the best through …

This meetup is here to foster networking in the Seattle fashion scene through events and shows for Seattle area photographers, fashion designers, fashion brands, retailers, showroom owners, fashion bloggers, models, producers and other fashion industry professionals. This meetup is organized by Christopher Chapman ( www.christopherchapman.net).  Seattle Fashion Photographer and fashion industry insider.  It was previously organized by Blogger, Stylist and social media maven, Cynde of Cynde In S …

Odd name for a photography group huh? That’s because this is a group for people who enjoy different types of photography and want to explore different genres. The plan is to have smaller groups so the meetups can be focused. For example we’ll have meetups for people who are complete novices to digital photography, and meetups for people who want to work on a specific genre. Some of the things we’ll do include introduction to the camera, introduction to studio photography, portrait studio photogr …

This group exists in conjuction with Seattle Fashion Industry to give the lovers and consumers of fashion in Seattle a place to come together, collaborate, discuss and possibly meet their favorite Seattle Fashion Professionals. This group is intended for anyone interested in fashion in Seattle. Please join us!!!

Aloha Photo Explorer! Photo Explorers Meetups are thematic. A series of different events connecting one topic allow group members to build relationships while engaging in a particular type of photography. Our members have a variety of interests including fashion, portrait, travel and product photography. The intent of the group is to create a variety events to allow members to get experience in different kinds of photography and to build new skills. In the few months since I took over the group, …

Seattle Professional Photographers Association is an Affiliate of Professional Photographers of America. SPPA has been meeting monthly since 1945. Our primary goal is to educate photographers to better serve their customers while maintaining excellence in their creative endeavors. Our mission is to provide information with respect to creativity and lasting value of professional photography. We are committed to excellence through continuing education. For more information about the benefits of be …

Organizing fashion photoshoots with theme and purpose in a group forum. Directing model movement on camera in a editorial style used in national fashion magazines.  Former New York photographer Jim Hadley with extensive history will direct photographers into seeing and capturing the simulation of naturalness with models. These meetups are definitely a learning and sharing experience. Join us and hopefully you are also willing to share as you learn more. "We are aspiring photographers, models, …

A place for local pros, aspiring pros, and advanced photography enthusiasts to meet and interact with other local photographers and learn how to improve their photography and photo business skills. The group is focused at the aspiring pro to beginning working pro, though it is open to all and everyone is welcome—all skill levels, camera types, and photographic interests. Formerly Seattle SMUG. We are volunteer run, and speakers donate their time to talk to the group once a month on a wide range …

A Creative Crucible to energize the Media Arts. Hi all! My name is A. James and I am photographer here in Seattle. I own Market Studios here in beautiful Ballard and want to utilize my space to create an epicenter for creative progression, development, and advancement in the media arts. Saying I am "self-taught" would be a huge overstatement since I could not have learned or continue to learn everything I wish to about photography and other fields I pursue without the teaching and mentoring of f …

Welcome to the Seattle Photography Group! Our mission is to reveal the huge number of hidden or inaccessible photography activities that can be so hard to find, and to consolidate local photography activities and resources helping our members push their limits and expand their skills both through practice and working with other aspiring photographers. Our group provides value by offering activities which might be difficult for a lone photographer to set up, such as fashion shoots with aspiring m …

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If you would like to do more modeling, or get started let us help you. Perhaps being a model is what you are doing full time, or is just something that you have always wanted to do. Whatever level you are at, we plan on making your experience easier, and more fun. Each level has its skills and challenges, let us help you to develop the connections and experience to get to what ever level you want as quickly as you can. For the beginner we can help you to find photographers to work with, and prov …

Selective Focus is a group that organizes unique, themed, very popular events... mainly seasonal as it takes a great deal of time and effort to create such exciting modeling and photography events. We are an organized yet free-flowing group. You have a great deal of creative freedom in your Art at our events. We create the event, theme, etc...scout the models, scout the locations, organize the day, set the perimeters and guidelines, making it safe & fair for all...and allow you to select your sh …

The Seattle Figure Drawing Group provides a wide variety of figure drawing opportunities and settings for Seattle area artists.