SI Photo

Transmit Center for Faces in the Crowd

Below, you can find information about transmitting Faces in the Crowd photos to the SI Photo Department.

NOTE: Please transmit only requested photos (meaning that you and the Faces photo editor have discussed that this image is going to be sent to us). The information on this page should, under no circumstances, be used to send portfolios or similar promotional material, nor should it be used to send suggestions or nominations for Faces in the Crowd.

Once you factor in the wire services and large picture agencies, the SI Photo department receives around 4,500 images a day. In order to deal with this kind of volume, we use a large-scale image database, and all of the photos that we receive are automatically inserted this database. Once inserted, the database is most easily searched by caption -- hence the need for captioned images.

Also, if your picture is used in the magazine, a proper caption ensures that it is properly credited, as well as ensuring that any subjects are properly identified.

What to Send

What we would like from you depends on how you shot the Face in the Crowd.

Digital Image: please send us two files -- the original, unmodified digital file output by your camera, and a JPEG. Do not resize the JPEG; instead, just open the digital file in Photoshop and save it back out as a JPEG with a caption. (Please see below for more information about how to save the JPEG with and caption information.)
Normal Film: please scan the negative or chrome slide at 8 inches by 10 inches, 300 dots per inch (DPI), and send us this file saved as a JPEG with a caption. (Please see below for more information about how to save the JPEG with caption information.)
Printed Image: please scan the print at 8 inches by 10 inches, 300 dots per inch (DPI), and send us this file saved as a JPEG with a caption. (Please see below for more information about how to save the JPEG with caption information.)

When saving your files, the best file format is JPEG (Windows format, quality of 9, non-progressive) -- it works with our database well, and because of JPEG's compression, it provides the shortest transmission time. Lastly, the file name is important; filenames which contain "/", "?", or "*" will not get to us. Ideally, we'd love files with the ".jpg" file extension as well (provided that the file is a JPEG!).

Please send only captioned images (the captions should contain the name of the photographer and brief content information). For information about captioning images, please take a quick glance at our page on how to caption image files.

How and Where to Send Them

Please send all Faces in the Crowd images via email, as attachments. The email address to send them to is faces@siphoto.com.

Who to Contact

For issues related to shooting the Faces photos -- composition, etc. -- contact Beth Dalatri at (212) 522-4234. For issues related to sending the photos to us -- email, format, captioning, etc. -- contact Phil Jache at (212) 522-3156 or Nate Gordon at (212) 522-8245.