Award Winning Senior Portraits | Professional Photographer in Phoenix, Arizona

Award Winning Senior Pictures

Many of you have been to my office and seen my stack of magazines where many seniors just like you have been published! Each issue showcases the best-of-the-best both nationally and internationally, and I’ve been able to see so many smiles and happy tears from teens when they find out their image was selected. Often they don’t even know that I’ve submitted them for publication! I thought it might be interesting to hear from someone who publishes these magazines, so today I’m featuring Beverly Williams from Senior Year Magazine, Teen Years Magazine, and Infinity Photography Magazine. I’ve had many images published and even recently had two images published in Senior Year Magazine’s Guys Only edition in January 2023!

Meet Beverly Williams

I’m Beverly Williams and I’m from Atlanta, Ga.  I am the creator of Senior Year Magazine, Teen Years Magazine and Infinity Photography Magazine.  I publish print magazines under all 3 names and each has an Instagram account where we feature work of photographers from all over the world. Besides teens and high school seniors, we also showcase infants, children, families, engagements, weddings, and maternity sessions. Plus we offer Business Education classes to photographers as well.

Why Did You Decide To Start Publishing A Magazine?

I started Senior Year Magazine back in 2015.  Initially, I created it for the Instagram featuring aspect in order to recognize more photographers from within the industry.  The Instagram account grew quickly and now we have over 24k followers, have been hash tagged in over 768k images, and we have featured over 17k images on our Senior Year Magazine Instagram account.  In 2017, we created the Senior Year Magazine Private FB group for photographers and in early 2019, we published our first print magazine.

How Many Issues Have Been Published?

At the present time, we have published a total of 36 magazines! They include 27 issues of Senior Year Magazine, 4 issues of Teen Years Magazine, and 5 issues of Infinity Photography Magazine.

How Do You Choose Which Images To Publish?

When selecting images for the magazines, we literally go through thousands of image submissions, looking at each and every one.  We are looking at the overall composition – posing, lighting, creativity, etc.  We select what we feel are the best images of the ones that are submitted.  It is important to us to feature a variety of photographers and a variety of seniors and teens, representing a variety of styles. 

Does Everyone Get Published?

The goal at Senior Year Magazine, Teen Years Magazine, and Infinity Photography Magazine has always been to feature as much variety as possible both in terms of images we feature on our Instagram and in terms of of images we publish in our magazines.  While we do the best we can, all photographers who enter submissions for our magazines have not been published.  We are always looking for new, creative talent.

Why Do You Think It’s Important For Photographers To Get Their Images Published?

High school seniors today, have a plethora of photographers from which to choose for their senior pictures.  When a photographer has been published in our magazine, it enables them to market and promote themselves within their community, to show that they work has been nationally or internationally recognized and published. Many photographers use the magazine as a sort of gateway to reach more high school seniors and parents within their community.  We provide a badge to every photographer whom we publish that can be used social media marketing and on their website.  We also provide the photographers with marketing templates to designate that they were published as well.

High school seniors and their parents are excited when they find out they have been published!  We include their names, city and state with every image that goes in the magazine. It’s very exciting to them to know that one of their images was chosen from thousands submitted world-wide.  Many parents purchase the magazine as a keepsake and when they receive it, they post a picture of it on their own social media, giving credit to the photographer.  This helps promote the photographer even more within their area. So basically, it’s an excellent marketing tool for photographers as well. 

Senior Year Magazine

We have a website for photographers where we offer Business Education Classes, Marketing Templates for Photographers, A Photographer’s on-line listing by City and State, as well as a full explanation of “How To Get Featured On Our Instagram” and “How To Get Published In Our Magazines”.
www.senioryearmagazine.com

Award Winning Images

Thanks Beverly for sharing a bit more about Senior Year Magazine! I’ve had many images published including 2 in the brand new Guys Only edition, 6 images in the Summer 2022 edition, and was honored to be named one of the Top 100 Senior Photographers!

Will you be next? I have just a few dates left for Class of 2023, so if you’re ready to learn about Arizona’s best senior portrait experience, grab your FREE download of the Senior Client Welcome Guide to learn what happens next!