Intern staffing allows us to bring in personnel to assist, making the workload slightly lighter, and allowing for long-term projects to be completed earlier than expected. However, a significant amount of time is spent mentoring to internship participants, both directly and indirectly. While we are strongly committed to educating internship participants during the program, we do not want to be in a position where we are essentially "paying for the privledge" of having an intern program.

Further, frequent shoots which interns are taken on are not shoots which require an assistant's help. Participating and observing during these shoots more often than not, benefits only the intern. Paying a wage in instances like these, which occur during the course of the internship, would, again, be akin to "paying for the privledge" of having an intern program.

In addition, students usually only come in for a few days a week, which allows for them to experience the business, but which limits the overall contribution to John Harrington Photography. (i.e. the benefit the student receives is, overall, higher than the benefit John Harrington Photography receives.)

The exception to our policy of not paying interns is for internship participants who travel to Washington during the summer, and who work five days a week over the two month program. A nominal hourly wage is paid to these participants because of their costs involved in coming to Washington and the fact that there is a significantly higher contribution to John Harrington Photography by the intern. If you are interested in participating in this paid-portion of the program, you must be coming from outside of the Washington-Baltimore region, and plan on working five days a week for atleast a two month period. When contacting John Harrington Photography, please be sure to indicate that you are interesting in participating in the paid-internship program, and that you meet the elegibility requirements.