9 Free Photography Contracts from Docracy

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Docracy calls itself “the web’s only open collection of legal contracts and the best way to negotiate and sign documents online.” To be less vague, Docracy has thousands of contracts you can copy and modify for your own use, then send and have your clients sign electronically.

Legal Stuff: Please use a lawyer to look over any photography contracts you use. Docracy could reduce the cost of having the right legal documents for your business. Spending a few hundred dollars on an attorney now to make sure your photography contracts protect you could result in huge savings of money and stress later, and maybe avoid a lawsuit.

Nine Common Photography Contracts

Model Release Adult Contract

Here’s a standard model release photography contract template. Signing this document grants rights to the model’s image as specified.

Model Release Minor Contract

This document is a model release for a minor and needs to be signed by the model’s parent or guardian. Signing this document grants rights to the model’s image as specified.

Photo Session Agreement

This legal document was originally a legal contract between a photographer and a major recording artist. The photography professional was hired by the record label to take pictures of the artist for a print publication.

The license of Rights for Photography

This is a simple agreement in which a photography professional grants a legal license to a client for non-electronic rights for pictures

Property Release

I included this because many times a photographer will use props such as cars and antiques, and even photograph on other people’s land/business, etc. This document provides a property release for photographers and property owners. This document gives a photographer legal rights to take photographs of property (props and physical land) owned by the property owner.

Portrait Photography Agreement

This is an agreement for a portrait shooting session between a photographer and a client during an event.

Wedding Photography Services Photography Contract

Brides and mother of the bride are often hard to deal with, so here’s a simple agreement for wedding photography services.

Gallery Contract for Sale of Photography

This contract is valuable to anyone selling prints of their work as fine art. This is a contract between a photographer and a gallery in which the photographer consigns to the gallery certain works, and the gallery agrees to offer the works for sale.

Equipment Rental Agreement

Because photographers occasionally rent out their gear, here’s a basic equipment rental agreement for photographers.

Additional resources for photographers

Once you download your contract there are other things you should consider to ensure that your client experience is as smooth as possible. 

Photography proposals

Sending invoices and getting paid.

Getting paid for your work is extremely important, obviously! 🙂 

We wrote a guide on how to get chooses invoicing and accounting software for photographers

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