The Top Ten
Reasons to join our Family
10. Networking is the key to the success of small
businesses. The GPPA is striving to network the more experienced photographers
with the less experienced photographers to create a network of answers and
insight to all challenges of our field.
9. Print Salon is another reason that the GPPA can
advance your career as a photographer. This allows you to enter your work into
our yearly Print Competition where we have the best of the best judges come in
and critique your work. By entering this competition, you can also earn
degrees.
8. Members of the GPPA can earn prestigious degrees for service, education and having
prints that merit in print competition.
7. Education is very important to the members of
the GPPA. We strive to offer you the newest techniques, strategies and ideas
that the market has to offer. We offer the members Seminars, GA School, an
annual convention and a minimum of 16 area meetings. As a member of GPPA, you
are automatically a member of Southeastern Professional Photographers
Association (SEPPA). SEPPA has a convention every other year and we are always
the host state. As a member of SEPPA, you also receive a magazine 3 times a
year, the Southern Exposure.
6. Our goal is to help you create a friendship that will last a lifetime. There
are so many stories of photographers that have had to help out other
photographer and had they not been a member and have the friends that they had,
they would have lost valuable business.
5. GPPA members are very prestigious people. Our members serve on
charity boards, church councils, school boards and other community activities.
Our members are recognized throughout the US, as prominent and outstanding
photographers.
4. The GPPA publishes Focus, a photography magazine, 3 times a year.
This magazine contains articles and advertisements specifically for Georgia
photographers. We also have monthly newsletter that are emailed out to the
entire membership with the current happenings and the latest news that is
specific to our state.
3. We offer many scholarships each year for attendance to the GA School of Professional Photography, a PPA affiliate school that is held each year at North GA Technical College. Scholarships are given for various reasons.
2. Every year at our convention, we have a two day trade show where you can find everything you
need to have a successful business. We have labs, frame suppliers, photographic
equipment, marketing, jewelry and so much more. Our annual trade show is an
event that you do not want to miss.
1. All of
the above.