award-winning portrait photography
Advocacy Campaigns
We help non-profits, law firms and CSR initiatives to gain public attention by telling the human impact stories behind their vital work.
What we offer
Our high-impact portraits tell compelling human stories within a second. We grab the audience's attention and provide them with a way to access and support your vital work.
Audience engagement
Our photographic campaigns are ready-made for multiple outputs. From magazines, exhibitions and billboards; to annual reports, websites and social media.
Broad dissemination
We know what it takes to make a great advocacy campaign. From conception to delivery we create bespoke projects designed to tell your story, whilst working with ethics and sensitivity.
Years of experience
We have delivered advocacy campaigns that have impacted thousands of lives.
Our stories have won major awards and been published and exhibited around the world.
Proven track record
The starting point
We understand that you may not be quite sure exactly what you need, so we have devised a basic campaign package to give you as many options as possible, and enough content to gain public attention for a long time to come.
Our tried and tested basic package is priced at R85,000 (inc. VAT). It may not suite every project but it is designed as a starting point that can be tweaked to suit your needs. We have found that it works for most projects.
What you get:
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A project proposal with a bespoke concept and framework.
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16 human stories that stand alone as compelling advocacy but together tell the broader story. Each story includes:
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Photographic portraits
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300-500 word written story
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Short filmed interviews
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Documentary supporting photographs
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16 exhibition ready mounted prints (A1) with wall captions.
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A long form written piece and photo essay, publication ready.
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A social media pack with images and caption.
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All licensing, equipment, editing and travel costs included.
Explore our campaigns
Why work with us?
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Quality - award-winning photography
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Experience - over a decade making advocacy campaigns
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Simplicity - all licenses and costs included
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Bespoke content - tailored for maximum impact
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Efficiency - 30 day turnaround on each project
Let's begin
Get in touch and we'll give you a call.
Together we can discuss your project and how we can create a bespoke campaign for you.
Alternatively you can reach us on:
+27 (0)79 281 0313
Frequently Asked Questions
Just get in touch using the form above and we will give you a call to discuss your project. As our calendar is usually quite full we tend to book projects a few months in advance. If you have a last minute project please get in touch and we will see what we can do.
We require a 30% deposit up front to cover the travel and production costs. The balance will be required on completion of the project.
We work in every province of South Africa but the basic package (outlined above) only budgets for working in one location. Multi-location projects will require additional travel costs.
We will do our best to share the project with our international and local media contacts. Our aim is to get your work seen by as many people as possible. We reserve the right not to share the project if we feel like the final product does not fully represent our values and ethics.
To keep things simple and ensure that the people we photograph are safeguarded, the copyright is owned by Thom Pierce Studios. We sign a contract that states we will not sell the image usage to anyone else, including stock libraries.
Included in our cost is a full usage license for you. This gives you all media, global, perpetual usage of the content, without limitations.
There are many reasons why this works in your favour and we would be happy to discuss them with you before commencing the project.
Tel: +27 (0)79 281 0313
Email: thom@thompiercestudios.com
Instagram: @thom.pierce
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