What's the Professional Certification?

The Fotopunto Professional Certification creates a help platform for the photography market field, giving the professional an authentication and reliability guarantee:

• Reliability in the professional contacts and commercial relations.
• Protection against suplantation and common Internet fraud.
• Work quality distinction.

Who can get it?

The user typologies at Fotopunto.com that can obtain the Fotopunto Professional Certification are:

• Professional photographers
• Model agencies
• Advertising agencies
• Photo production companies
• Photo studios to rent
• Photography schools and relateds
• Photography shops

Common requirements

The Fotopunto Professional Certification is strictly limited to the following requirements:

• Have an own personal space at Fotopunto.com, under one of the allowed typologies for Certification.
• Perform a professional activity under the choosen typology, in one of the following legal forms: Stablished company, professional freelancer or third-party employee.
• Submit to Fotopunto the required documentation, including the required documentation copies which prove the professional commercial activity.
• In case of photographers, show detailed information and illustrative photos in its personal space at Fotopunto.com, about the commercial works done: Publications, brands and companies for which he/she have worked for.

Requirements for photographers

Taken into account for the Certification of professional photographers:

• Commercial advertising works for fashion, product, services, graphic campaigns and general advertising photography
• Editorial photography for paper media
• Photojournalism
• Social photography for weddings and similar events

Not taken into account for the Certification:

• Personal work
• Book photography
• Stock photography
• Exhibitions
• Formation

What do the certified professionals get?

The certified professionals and companies get:

• Distinctive logo for its publication on its web page or similars.
• Distinctive logo on its personal web space at Fotopunto.com
• Inclusion in the certificed professionals listings in the social network Fotopunto.com, obtaining more visibility.
• Publication of its name in the certified professionals listing at Fotopunto.net

How to get certified?

Obtaining the Fotopunto Professional Certification is free, and it's based on the following steps:

• Become a registered user or company in the Fotopunto.com social network
• Inclusion in the Fotopunto's web space of the user or the company of the information and photos to credit its professionalization, or detailed information about the company, by using the specific online tools at Fotopunto.com
• Presentation of the certification request, attaching the required legal documentation and sending it via FAX, postal mail or email.
• Request consideration by Fotopunto