LUCEO Images is a photographer owned and operated cooperative established with the goal of supporting the significant work of its members. LUCEO produces the highest quality commercial and editorial photography and works to provide creative nourishment to our member photographers.
LUCEO’s six founding members came together during a time of industry transition that has impacted the way that imagery is created, distributed and consumed. We are meeting these challenges with creative ideas that offer solutions to our clients and allow us opportunities to work on projects with purpose.
LUCEO believes that photography is about dialogue, discussion and shared ideas. It is with this belief that LUCEO reaches out beyond its group to build relationships with other individuals and collectives. Our hope is to build a network of partnerships that allow us opportunities to fulfill our goals and to offer unique products and services to our clients.
PROGRAMS & FEATURES:
LUCEO is united in a common belief that, through these times of change, the still image continues to be relevant. We believe that history extends beyond the news-cycle, and that ordinary people and personal struggle are avenues through which we can explore the bigger issues facing our world. It is with this purpose that we created the LUCEO Project Fund and the LUCEO Student Project Award.
LUCEO Project Fund
We believe in actively encouraging the completion of significant personal bodies of work, which lack funding through mainstream outlets. In pursuit of this goal, LUCEO contributes a percentage of all editorial and commercial commissions toward the LUCEO Project Fund. This fund exists solely to support the long-term projects of Luceo’s member photographers.
Every commission allows our clients to support significant photographic work.
LUCEO Student Project Award
We also believes that developing photographers need support. To advance this cause, LUCEO pledges a portion of this fund towards the LUCEO Student Project Award. This award is disbursed annually to a talented student photographer in support of a significant and developing body of work.
LUCEO Partnerships
Collaboration is essential to what we do. We feel it’s more important to offer solutions, rather than just products. To accomplish this, LUCEO actively partners with talented industry leaders who have staked their careers to providing the best in visual services. Our partner organizations work with LUCEO in order to help us bring the right team to your shoot. In essence, we offer our clients the option to enlist our partner’s services for any shoot, creating a team that can expand and contract to the meet their specific needs. Not only does this help us guarantee a consistent, high-quality product, it also allows us to draw from our history of working together The benefit is clear: a seasoned team is more efficient, cost-effective, and goal-oriented.
We select our partners based on previous working experience with each person. We are particularly drawn to people who are capable of producing original, consistent, and high-quality work. From editorial shoots to fully produced commercial layouts, we have always believed that the final image is only as good as the entire team working to create the stage for its presentation. For this reason, we have teamed up with partner organizations to help provide photo editing services, art direction, web design, audio and multimedia production, and printing services. To see a list of our partners, visit Our Partners page under the About tab.