About Spark Visual Research

Commercial portfolio consulting, stock photography editing and creative advising.

Spark Visual Research will help you realize your visual strengths and how best to market them to the right clients. We believe in the necessity of creating smart pictures to break through the clutter of today's marketplace.

Services

Portfolio Consulting:

We look at your business and images as a cohesive brand. This helps us cite your visual strengths, see where there is room for growth and turn ideas into action.

Editing:

Use Spark as an extra set of eyes to critic as well as select new images for your website and portfolio. We also edit archives, help create stock portfolios or edit new submissions for your stock agencies.

Custom Creative Briefs:

What to shoot is a difficult question to answer. Whether it is a portfolio shoot or stock shoot, we translate your visual strengths into marketplace needs. Our briefs address production information, visual aesthetics and outline specific image ideas illustrated by marketplace tear sheets.

Bio

Founder of Spark Visual Research, Karen is a leading consultant in the photography industry. With over 14 years experience in building image collections, studying the marketplace needs, forecasting trends and implementing creative strategies, Karen now applies her experience to service production companies, photographers and stock agencies wanting to create smart images for today's marketplace.