OUR MISSION

Our Mission Statement

IC Productions strives to bring fresh, creative photography while maintaining a timeless feel to our images. We give detailed attention to clients of all budgets and work with them to deliver the highest quality images for their dollar.

 

We follow a strict code of ethics from the American Society of Media Photographers  reprinted below:

 

Responsibility to Colleagues and the Profession:

  • Maintain a high quality of service and a reputation for honesty and fairness.
  • Oppose censorship and protect the copyrights and moral rights of other creators.
  • Foster fair competition based on professional qualification and merit.
  • Never deliberately exaggerate one’s qualifications, nor misrepresent the authorship of work presented in self-promotion.
  • Never engage in malicious or deliberately inaccurate criticism of the reputation or work of another photographer.
  • Never offer or accept bribes, kickbacks or other improper inducements.
  • Never conspire with others to fix prices, organize in illegal boycotts, or engage in other unfair competitive practices.
  • Donate time for the betterment of the profession and to advise other photographers.

Responsibility to Subjects:

  • Respect the privacy and property rights of one’s subjects.
  • Never use deceit in obtaining model or property releases.

Responsibility to Clients:

  • Conduct oneself in a professional manner and represent a client’s best interests within the limits of one’s professional responsibilities.
  • Protect a client’s confidential information. Assistants should likewise maintain confidentiality of the photographer’s proprietary information.
  • Accurately represent to clients the existence of model and property releases for photographs.
  • Stipulate a fair and reasonable value for lost or damaged photographs.
  • Use written contracts and delivery memos with a client, stock agency or assignment representative.
  • Give due consideration to the client’s interests before licensing subsequent uses.
  • Do not manipulate images for use in a journalistic context in a manner that can mislead viewers or misrepresent subjects.