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How To Create Biographical Archives for
Childhood Photo Media Requests to Your Mom, Siblings, and Best Friends
by Randi Reed
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Next>> What to put in each
person’s copy of your biographical photo collection:
Mom or closest parent/ guardian
This collection and the collection of your most trusted friend are the ones
most likely to be used, so take special care with them.
1. Current publicity photo.
2. Baby photo,
3. Photo of you with the whole family or with siblings.
4. Photo of you playing an instrument or performing in grade school, or if
none exists, use a grade school photo.
5. Photo of you in your first band, or band that put you on the path to
fame, knowing your musical style, etc.
6. High school photo.
7. G-rated, fun photo from Halloween, vacation, etc. that expresses your
silly side of your personality. (Note: If you have a bad relationship with a
parent or a sibling who’s not in your life anymore and you don’t plan to
discuss it publicly, that person shouldn’t be in the photo.)
8. Photo of you and your best childhood friend together, incase Mom is asked
for one.
9. Video footage of you performing as a child and/ or in a high school
production, if it exists.
Closest brother or sister, or the sibling that’s usually the “spokesperson
sibling” in the family:
Photos similar to Mom’s collection, but also add a couple of current and
past photos of you with your sibling (or different ones of the family than
what Mom has).
Most trusted Best friend
This collection and the collection of the parent you’re closest to are the
ones most likely to be used, so take special care with them. Important:
Inform this friend that your manager has photo collections for your music
teacher, childhood best friend, etc. incase someone asks.
1. Current publicity photo.
2. A couple of favorite current photos of you and your best friend together.
One of them can be a G-rated silly photo if you like.
3. A couple of photos of you and best friend together from the past.
(Especially photos that help tell the story of how you met. One of them can
be silly.)
4. Photo of you playing an instrument or performing in grade school, or in
your first band (can be the same one your mom has, or different; you’re just
covering the bases here incase they contact your best friend instead of your
mom). 5. Any of the photos you particularly like from your or Mom’s
collection.
Childhood best friend or friend from the neighborhood:
Make the collection to give to your manager even if you’ve lost touch with
this person; TV producers are great at tracking people down.
1. Current publicity photo.
2. A couple of photos of you and the friend together (especially photos that
tell what you were like as a child, what you and your friend liked to do as
kids, or photos that tell the story of how you met).
Performing arts teachers or a teacher or other community role model that
helped you
Make the collection to give to your manager even if you’ve lost touch with
this person; TV producers are great at tracking people down.
1. Current publicity photo.
2. Photos of you performing when they first knew you.
3. Photo of you with that teacher, if one exists, or school photo of you
during that time, or photo of you doing an activity with the organization at
that time, if the role model was from church, a youth center, etc.
4. Current photo of you visiting that person now. If you go back to visit
your old school, youth center, etc., always have someone take lots of pics
and video footage!
Manager and Publicists:
Your manager should
keep in a safe place a master archive containing well-labeled copies of each
person’s hard copy and electronic collections, incase someone can’t find
theirs. (Copyrights of each photo remain with each photographer, or with you
if they’re family photos you’ve inherited, by the way…not your manager.)
Your publicists should be informed of the archive’s existence and may want
their own copy. If so, the manager’s archive should be professionally
duplicated and given to them. The original master archive remains safely
with the manager.
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