About KAVYAR

Kavyar is a network for creatives in fashion, beauty, and art.

We specialize in helping artists get published in magazines and other outlets. For more about this, see How It Works.

Creating a Kavyar profile is free, and most submission opporunities we list are free. Some publishers may charge fees (e.g. for priority review), but they are usually optional, and are always shown up front.

Yes! Kavyar is for all artists, not just photographers. Our focus is the fashion/beauty industry — models, hair/makeup artists, stylists, designers — but anyone is welcome to join.

Go to Kavyar for Publishers and apply to join.

No. The Kavyar network and publication submissions are separate. If you want to keep a low profile on the network, you are not required to share work publicly. However, having a complete Kavyar profile with approved portfolio work can increase your changes of being accepted by publishers.

Kavyar portfolios are built collaboratively. That means work can show up in your portfolio in one of several ways:

Your Kavyar portfolio is separate from the work you submit to publishers. Work submitted to publishers is typically kept private until they publish it, at which point it can be added to your portfolio.

The Kavyar network is curated. Portfolios must be reviewed and approved by Kavyar before you become a full network member. We do this to maintain the quality and professionalism of the network. This approval is not required to submit to publishers.

Portfolios are typically approved within two hours when submitted between 8am and 10pm US Eastern time. Approval time may take longer outside of those hours or during holidays. If you don't receive a timely review, contact us.

If you are new to the industry and don't have work yet, or you simply don't have your work handy when you sign up, you can join in a limited capacity. You will be able to browse others' work, but you won't be able to participate fully until you complete your portfolio.

The only work that shows up on the Popular and Latest feeds is public portfolio work. So the first step is to add work to your portfolio.

Portfolio work gets trickled out to the feed over time. If you add lots of work, it may take a while for it all to show up. The feed also uses algorithms to prevent overcrowding by one member and filter work that's too similar. A small amount of curation may also be performed by Kavyar reviewers to maintain quality and genre standards.

When other members credit you on work, it is automatically added to your portfolio. If you would like to remove it, see the next question.

Click on any work in your portfolio. Scroll down to reveal the list of credits. If you are the only person credited on the work, you can delete the work by clicking the X next to your credit. If there are other people credited on the work, you must first remove their credits before removing your own. Note that removing someone’s credit removes the work from their portfolio, too, so be sure this is really what you want to do.

Most of the publishers listed on Kavyar are indie mags, run by people that are artists themselves. Most of these mags are labors of love.

Allowing publishers to offer optional paid upgrades for faster responses or critiques allows them to make some extra money to keep their publication running, while still providing benefits to the artists that submit.

Even if you're not comfortable paying fees to submit, Kavyar will always have free-to-submit opportunities listed, and we encourage publishers to always offer a free option.

We love hearing feedback about this and any aspect of Kavyar. Feel free to reach out if you have thoughts or suggestions.