COLAFW Experience magazine is a luxury publication that focuses on the fashion, style, beauty, and fashion culture within the Columbia Fashion Week platform and here in Columbia, SC. Our publication will take you inside of our industry and represent the trailblazing spirit of COLAFW and the community it supports. COLAFW Experience is an extension of Columbia Fashion Week to advance fashion in our city. 

COLAFW Experience will feature amazing creatives within the COLAFW ALLIANCE and highlight designers, fashion stylists, models, photographers, beauty artists and businesses in our community. Here's your chance to take to showcase your unique perspective within the creative community, submit your work today! 

COLAFW Experience magazine will be publish online and printed bi-annually. Please read our guidelines and submit accordingly. We appreciate your submission in advance, and we look forward to reviewing your work!
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In an effort to highlight our Alliance members, free submissions will be open all year for an opportunity to be considered for our bi-annual issues. 

Submission Guidelines
 
Who can Submit: (only COLAFW Alliance members)

• Columbia Fashion Week staff photographers 
• COLAFW Alliance, professional photographers 
• **If you're a Designer, Fashion Stylist, Model or Beauty Artist - we encourage you to work with ColaFW Alliance photographers who will have access to submit your work for review. 

When submitting your work, please keep the following in mind:

• Our team will curate the submissions we feel best represent our mission and vision.        
• You must submit an existing, never-published-before editorial or piece, or can provide a proposal which includes photographing a series strictly for the COLAFW Experience (please inquire via email [email protected] for further guidelines).
• Submissions to The COLAFW Experience should be exclusively submitted for the purpose of publishing in the COLAFW Experience publication. Work published by other magazines could potentially result in your submission being removed from our website and social media pages, and future plans for it to be featured in our print issue may be canceled.
• All images must be submitted in high resolution JPEG, 300-450dpi RGB & CMYK, minimum size of 10mb.
• Though copyright of your work will always belong to you, your email submission is your release for publishing your work.
• Columbia Fashion Week reserves the right to use your work for advertising of our publication, while always doing our best to credit your work at all times possible.
• You must provide information regarding the entire team of who have worked on your submission, with proper credits. **Only alliance members will be credited. We encourage you to work with Alliance members - but not a requirement to submit.**
• Please, provide JPEG thumbnails of the work you are submitting for consideration and links to your website/portfolio, and social media pages.
• Submissions are not guaranteed to be featured in an upcoming issue or online feature, and we will do our best to keep you informed about our decisions regarding your submission. Decisions are based on the quality of submissions, space available and requires active membership in the COLAFW Alliance. The issue that your editorial might be considered for may be also subject to change.
• Image selection and layout is determined by us and our publications team. At times, we might need to crop images or use text over them. Also, keep in mind we might not use all images provided.
• We do not provide free print or online copies, as presently the publication is printed exclusively as on-demand-print. 
• We do not pay for submissions. 
• All photoshoot expenses for a submission to the magazine is covered by the individual and/or team submitting the project. You will be provided with a digital PDF of your featured article, along with the cover of the issue and the table of contents. 

 
Submission Details (Complete Form & Email Submission):

• Email high-definition photos up to 7 images – this will ensure that your work meets our guidelines for online publishing or printing.
  • Subject: COLAFW Experience Submission | Title of Submission | Name of Photographer 

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​Email submissions to:

• [email protected]

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