DEPO the speed of your vision
The community where photographers, models, stylists, make-up artists and magazines shoot together and get published.
Where pictures find their people
DEPO is an international community for everyone who makes pictures. Members meet, plan shoots, answer magazine open calls, get printed on covers and get featured in DEPO Magazine.
Your role, in focus
Pick who you are and turn the aperture. The wider it opens, the more of the picture you see.
What photographers find here
- Answer magazine open calls and get your series printed on a cover.
- Show your work in the With your eyes gallery and collect followers.
- Enter Depo Awards in Hidden Eyes or the Open Category.
What models find here
- Get found by photographers and magazines in Connect.
- Build a portfolio through real shoots instead of paid tests.
- Appear in DEPO Magazine, the editorial journal of the community.
What make-up artists find here
- Join shoots near you through Locals.
- Get credited on every published photo you worked on.
- Grow a team you can call for the next editorial.
What stylists find here
- See who is shooting this month and pitch your looks.
- Your credit travels with the photo into every magazine.
- Turn one collaboration into a standing creative team.
What magazines find here
- Run open calls and collect every submission in one place.
- Manage your issue together with up to five team members.
- Get your journal featured inside DEPO Magazine.
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Connect
Find people for your next shoot by role, style and city.
Open Connect -
Locals
See who works near you and build a team close to home.
Find locals -
Open calls
Answer a magazine’s call with your series and aim for the cover.
About DEPO Magazine -
Depo Awards
Enter Hidden Eyes or the Open Category.
See the awards
What DEPO is
DEPO is one studio with the lights on. Find your team in Connect, shoot with people near you through Locals, answer magazine open calls, enter Depo Awards and see your work in DEPO Magazine.
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Connect
Find the people for your next shoot by role, style and city, and message them directly.
Open Connect -
Locals
See who works near you, from studio photographers to the make-up artist two streets away.
Find locals -
Open calls
Magazines post open calls here. Answer one with your series and get printed on a cover.
See the magazines -
Depo Awards
Enter Hidden Eyes or the Open Category and get published in DEPO Magazine.
See the awards
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Twelve faces, one light
Members of the community step into the key light one at a time. Keep scrolling.
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Daleros Vilard
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Liera Michaelis
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Talinda Colman
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Rian Galdos
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Tarik Nebanu
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Elvira Sungay
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Nayara Zenadi
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Yasumi Okeda
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Kairos Levander
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Saria Casadi
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Kiara Tengri
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Zordan Felith
Eight magazines, one wall
Each of them runs open calls on DEPO. Choose a title to pull its covers out of the stack.
Choose who you are
Pick a role and the orbit turns to the people who share it.
On DEPO, photographers can
- Answer magazine open calls and get your series printed on a cover.
- Show your work in the With your eyes gallery and collect followers.
- Enter Depo Awards in Hidden Eyes or the Open Category.
On DEPO, models can
- Get found by photographers and magazines in Connect.
- Build a portfolio through real shoots instead of paid tests.
- Appear in DEPO Magazine, the editorial journal of the community.
On DEPO, make-up artists can
- Join shoots near you through Locals.
- Get credited on every published photo you worked on.
- Grow a team you can call for the next editorial.
On DEPO, stylists can
- See who is shooting this month and pitch your looks.
- Your credit travels with the photo into every magazine.
- Turn one collaboration into a standing creative team.
On DEPO, magazines can
- Run open calls and collect every submission in one place.
- Manage your issue together with up to five team members.
- Get your journal featured inside DEPO Magazine.
FAQ
Got any questions left?
We've answered the most frequently asked questions
No. The course starts from the camera in your hands and the light in the room. Every lesson says what you need before it starts, and the first homework is made to be done with a phone.
A finished editorial story: a mood board, a call sheet, a lit portrait set and a six-picture series ready to send to a DEPO magazine's open call — the same path our photographers, stylists and models take on real shoots.
Video lessons, downloadable call-sheet and mood-board templates, light diagrams for every set-up, a private thread with the other students, and feedback on each homework from a working DEPO photographer.
About six weeks at two evenings a week. Lessons stay open, so you can go faster or pause between sets — nothing expires.
No credits are needed for the lessons. Sending your final series to a magazine's open call uses the usual DEPO submission, which is free on every plan.
Each module ends with one small brief. You upload the pictures to your DEPO portfolio, tag them with the module, and a mentor answers in the thread within three working days.
No. Homework is about trying the set-up and saying what you noticed. Mentors look at the decisions you made — light, framing, styling — not at the gear you own.
A course achievement on your profile, the finished series in your portfolio, and a shortlist of open calls that fit your pictures.
*Complete all lessons and required homework to earn a course achievement for your profile.
Step onto the set.
Make a profile, answer an open call and see your name in the credits. DEPO, the speed of your vision.