We are a group of visual artists’ agents that have come together as a collective resource to challenge inequality in our industry. We participate in workshops and mentoring programs, offer work placements and explore other opportunities to broaden the horizons for minority groups in the industries of advertising and commercial visual arts.
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Purpose
By combining our collective experience and network of contacts, we act as a resource to help increase diversity in the commercial visual arts. In addition to each agency’s individual efforts to encourage diversity in the office and on shoots, as a group we engage with organisations in a variety of ways ranging from speaking engagements and mentorships to work placements when possible. Bringing people together is a large part of what we do, whether that be crew for a shoot or industry figures for a panel discussion. By creating a central point for contacting us as a group, we hope to help facilitate change for the better in our industry.
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Resources
We will continue to add relevant resources to this site, please share with us anything that you’ve found helpful but is not listed below.
UK Black Creatives Database
Artists, Designers, Directors, Photographers, Journalists, Production & Music
UK Black & Ethnic Minority Food & Still Life Photography Crew
Photographers, Food Stylists, Set & Prop Stylists, Art & Creative Direction, Retouching, Photo Assistants, Food Styling Assistants, Set & Prop Stylists Assistants
Black Crew Directory
Hair & Makeup, Stylists, Costume, Electrical, Camera, Sound, Choreography & Movement, Directors & Screenwriters, Assistant Directors, Editors
The Hue List
Grip, Sound, Lighting, Art Dept, HMU, Production, Post, Choreography & Movement, Trainees
The Colour Balance POC Photo Assistants Directory
Photography Assistants
Representative Media
Best Practice Guidance, Talent Directory, Inclusion Rider
Hire Black Creatives
Photographers, Filmmakers & Directors, Creative Directors
Diversify Photo #HireBlackPhotographers Database
Photographers
We are POCC
Collective and community of creatives in advertising, media, fashion, arts, film & photography
Just Runners
Pro-diversity resource for booking runners for shoots
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Partners
PLEAT
Common Era
Probation
Twenty Twenty
Wren
Lucid
Process
Partners
At Trayler
VUE
Terri Manduca
Making Pictures
Wyatt-Clarke & Jones
Siobhan Squire
Angela Woods
Partners
Peter Bailey
Gill Turner
Miss Jones Agency
RSA Photo & Art
Mutton Bones
Studio PI
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Contact
If you are a charity, educational organisation or other type of group, please write to us at agents@agentsforchange.uk
Photographers and artists, please do not send portfolios to this address. Instead, contact individual agencies directly by following their submission guidelines.
Past
APHE × Agents for Change Panel Discussion
November 11, 2020 at 16:00
The Association for Photography in Higher Education and Agents for Change invite you to attend and take part in a special panel discussion on facing inequalities in the creative industries. We will have artists, agents, commissioners and educators sharing their thoughts and experiences as a catalyst for debate.
The purpose of the talk is, in very simple terms to keep talking. That, as cultural practitioners we must always maintain space to question our working assumptions, to recognise unconscious bias and to resist the rush to simple solutions.
Max Kandhola
Photographer and Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
Francis Augusto
Artist
Virgilia Facey
Executive Content Producer for The Colour Balance
Krishna Sheth Gilston
Director of Photography, Stella Magazine