Photographer cover letter example
A photographer’s cover letter sends the reader to your portfolio and tells them what to look for. Give the role and the link, the work you shoot and the pace, one shoot you planned yourself, and why this studio.
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Theo Barker
Nottingham · [email protected] · 07700 900254
15 October 2026
Ms Joanna Pryce
Studio Manager
Fieldfare Studios
Unit 3, Lace Market Yard
Nottingham NG1 1XQ
Dear Ms Pryce
Application for Senior Product Photographer
I am applying for the Senior Product Photographer role at Fieldfare Studios. I have six years in an in-house e-commerce studio at Brightwell Home & Fashion, and my portfolio is at portfolio.example.com/theobarker.
I shoot about 400 new products a month, from packshots and flat lays to on-model images, to shot lists agreed with buying and marketing. I light each set to the brand guide and check colour against the product before anything goes live, and most images reach the website within two working days.
Last autumn I planned and shot our homeware campaign on location, from finding the house to the final selection for print. Your studio’s mix of e-commerce and campaign work for homeware brands is the range I want to work across.
I also train our new assistants on lighting set-ups and file naming. My CV is attached. Thank you for considering my application.
Yours sincerely
Theo Barker
Fictional letter from Theo Barker, the applicant in the photographer CV example. Every person and employer in it is invented.
Why each paragraph is there
I am applying for the Senior Product Photographer role at Fieldfare Studios. I have six years in an in-house e-commerce studio at Brightwell Home & Fashion, and my portfolio is at portfolio.example.com/theobarker.
The role, your experience and the portfolio, which the studio will open first.
I shoot about 400 new products a month, from packshots and flat lays to on-model images, to shot lists agreed with buying and marketing. I light each set to the brand guide and check colour against the product before anything goes live, and most images reach the website within two working days.
The work you shoot, the volume and the standard you keep.
Last autumn I planned and shot our homeware campaign on location, from finding the house to the final selection for print. Your studio’s mix of e-commerce and campaign work for homeware brands is the range I want to work across.
One shoot you planned yourself, then why this studio.
I also train our new assistants on lighting set-ups and file naming. My CV is attached. Thank you for considering my application.
Something you would bring to the team, then the CV.