Hello. Thanks for taking a moment to view my work and background.

I am a Los Angeles, California based editorial and corporate photographer handling assignment work for some of the world's leading publications. Clients include TIME, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Der Spiegel (Europe's leading news weekly), People, National Geographic Traveler, Newsweek, and the Chronicle of Higher Education to name a few. I also work with some of the nation's leading non-profits including the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance, National Public Radio and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. I've fulfilled advertising and corporate work for Costco Wholesale, Target Corporation, General Motors and SVI Holdings, Inc. To see examples of my published work, please click here.

My work incorporates portraits, documentary subjects, sports, lifestyle and news.

I'm fortunate to have had my work exhibited multiple times in the U.S., France and Spain. Fourteen of my images from a long term essay on immigration reside in the permanent collection at the California Museum of Photography. Two of the images were also placed on permanent display at the Oakland Museum of California in October, 2011. Other work is on display at Washington DC's Newseum. In addition, several images documenting the Occupy movement in Los Angeles were exhibited at the NoHo Gallery in Los Angeles, projected at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn and the Fovea Gallery in Beacon, New York.

A Eddie Adams Workshop alumn with multiple years as a volunteer staff member, I've worked since the 1990's as a part-time, adjunct professor teaching photojournalism and visual communications at California State University, Northridge and a variety of courses, including Street Photography and Portrait Photography, at UCLA.

My two decades of experience in the freelance world has taught me plenty through trials and tribulations! I've been hired as a expert witness to provide information pertaining to copyright and licensing standards in the photo industry and decided to take this a step further. I have compiled much of that information into a workshop that focuses on the Business of Photography and addresses many issues including image licensing, copyright, rate/term negotiations, client development and social media marketing, to name a few. I'm pleased to present this workshop as a means to help educate the next generation of photographers in a rapidly evolving market.

I have been represented by Aurora Photos since 1998. Prior to that, I was represented by Black Star Photo Agency.

Feel free to email me at todd@toddbigelowphotography.com with any questions or comments.

(Photo: Todd Bigelow on assignment for Sports Illustrated shooting Olympian Ryan Hall training in the Eastern Sierras. © Gerard Burkhart)

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TESTIMONIAL:
The most important element in a relationship between a photo editor and photographer is trust. When a photo editor picks up the phone and assigns a photographer, they have already placed their faith in the photographer's ability to come home with the goods. There has yet to be an assignment in the close to twenty years of my relationship with Todd Bigelow where he didn't come home with the goods.

He is fully aware of what his client needs. Not only does he deliver but he will give the client something extra. There have been many photographs that Todd has taken on his own during an assignment that were far superior to those he was instructed to shoot.

----James K. Colton, Picture Editor, Sports Illustrated, (Former Director of Photography, Newsweek)