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Amplify Utah Photo Lab  · For newsrooms

How to use Photo Lab pictures

Finding, downloading and publishing verified community photography. One page.

  1. Create a newsroom account

    At amplifyutah.stack.events, choose Get photos for your newsroom. Accounts are free, and colleagues can each have their own.

    Check spam for the confirmation email. It often lands there.

  2. Find what you need

    • Gallery — everything approved, newest first. Filter by county or topic.
    • Map — browse by where a photo was actually taken.
    • Search — keyword, place, date, topic or photographer.

  3. Check the details first

    Open a photo and you get everything an editor needs: title, full caption, who is in it, the date it was shot, where, and the photographer's name as they want it printed.

    Title, caption and credit each have a copy button beside them. No retyping, and no transcription errors in your caption.

  4. Agree to terms, then download

    Click Download full resolution. The first time, you accept the publishing terms — editorial use, credit required. The full-size file comes down immediately.

    The credit line is copied to your clipboard automatically when you download, ready to paste.

  5. Publish it with the credit

    Every photo runs with its credit line, exactly as given:

    Photographer Name / Amplify Utah Photo Lab

    These are photographers covering their own communities. The credit is the whole point of the programme for them, and it is a condition of the licence.

  6. Questions

    Anything at all — licensing, a photo you cannot find, a correction on a caption — email team@amplifyutah.org and we will sort it.

✉  Then tell us it ran

When a photo is published — not just downloaded — send us a note. A link or a photo of the page is plenty.

team@amplifyutah.org

This is the one thing we cannot see from our side. The site records every download, but only you know which pictures actually ran. It is how a photographer finds out their work was printed, how they build a portfolio that proves it, and how we show funders the programme works. One email closes that loop.