Note from Chris
Hello
My name is Chris and I live in Australia. I was a professional photographer before starting publishing magazines during Covid times.
I previously owned the magazine “Angels International” and published over 75 full magazines in both print, Apple iBooks and digital. I sold the magazine over 18 months ago and I don’t know why but the new owner has not done anything with it at all.
I started the magazine to give back to the models and photographers I worked with in Australia and it was a way to still be involved during Covid. After selling the Angels Magazine I rediscovered my passion and motivation again so started “il Bella Magazine”. This time it is more a “by invitation” only and highly curated to produce the best possible results for everyone.
I now publish magazines featuring a variety of models and photographers but also one off special personal issues featuring just one model or photographer. These are a beautiful way to showcase one persons work and be used by them as a personal magazine portfolio to gain more exposure and work.
As costs of printing in Australia and shipping around the world became too expensive I now only publish digital versions. However if I design a personal magazine for you I will also give you at no cost the full high resolution print files so you can have them printed professionally in your country if you wish.
All of my services are now free of charge. The reason is I have been lucky in the past with business and now travel Australia on the road full time with my cameras experiencing life and travel. I find this is my way of giving back to all the wonderful models and photographers I come in contact with and to share the love of photography.
I would like to invite you to feature in either a regular issue or a personal portfolio magazine. All of the finer details of photo numbers and sizes are on our website under the “Submissions” page. Any questions please just ask. Just understand I only speak English unfortunately and my time zone in Australia will be different to yours.
I carefully curate each issue to produce the best possible outcome for everyone and to create a beautiful magazine everyone is proud of. I am happy to provide a DropBox link if you wish showing samples of my work.
Let me know if you are interested and I can select a few of your Instagram posts to confirm the look and style of each issue and we can move forward with creating a beautiful magazine together.
I look forward to working with you.
Cheers Chris
Email Contact: editor@il-bella.com
Upload your photos to DropBox or WeTransfer and email us the link.
Overall Info
Please follow the details below carefully. If the specifics are not followed we will not publish your photos. We carefully curate each issue to not just be the best possible quality photos but have a consistent theme or style.
Photo Numbers
Regular Magazine: Minimum 12…but the more the better.
Personal Magazine: Minimum 50…but the more the better.
The more photos you submit the better the design options we have. We try to do 6 to 12 page features for each model or photographer in each issue so the more photos the more likelihood of that happening. With personal individual magazines we have found 50 to 80 pages is an ideal size so we need enough photos to fill that many pages.
Photo Resolution
300dpi is ideal. The better the quality the more chance you have of being published. We will not publish any social media sized or low quality/resolution photos.
There is no need to crop the images you submit. The magazine page size is slightly different to standard photo sizing so we can crop to suit if needed.
No water marks please. We will add your credit info in the magazine.
Jpeg images only. No PSD or RAW files. We do not edit your photos.
Upload Your Work
Due to the photos all being high resolution files they will not be able to be emailed. Please save to a Dropbox folder and email us a download link. Or you can use a free site at www.wetransfer.com to upload them to us with a download link. Our email to use for this is editor@il-bella.com
Cover Pages
We only choose the cover photo once all submissions are received. Just because a photo is good does not mean it will work for a cover. Many design considerations make up a cover page.
Free Copies
At this stage the magazine is in a digital format only. We are working on trying to find a good quality printer in Europe who is also affordable. Previous options we have used in Australia have been expensive.
Every model and photographer who features in the magazine receive free of charge the full magazine in a high quality interactive PDF file. We also send you every page and spread of the full magazine in a high resolution jpeg format. These are good enough to print in a large sized or reduced to social media size. We give you all the files we can not just basic small tear sheets of just your work.
If we produce a personal issue for you we will email you the full high definition print ready files so you can have your own printed in your country.