WE ARE ACTIVELY RECRUITING PHOTOGRAPHERS!

Earn with your smartphone.

Your phone is your equipment. Take photos and videos for people nearby and get paid. Show us a few photos you’ve taken of people, and we’ll take it from there.

Scan to download and sign up

A job offer in the Kamvo app: a 10-minute photo session at Fashion Island, $20 for you, the route on the map, and a countdown to accept.

A 10-minute session running in the Kamvo app: 6:48 left, $20 earned, overtime at $1.50 a minute.

The Kamvo earnings screen: this week’s total, time online, and the balance ready to pay out.

Be the first to sign up.

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Help us get started.

We need nearby photographers ready before we invite customers to book. That’s why we’re starting with you.

Customer demand isn’t established yet, so joining today may mean waiting for your first request.

There’s no fee to join and no minimum commitment. Apply now so you’re approved and ready when requests come in.

Get the app

Get approved once

Show us your work, then verify your ID and set up payouts so you’re ready when nearby requests come in.

You help shape Kamvo.

Tell us what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d like to see us improve upon.

Go online when you’re free.

One button puts you on the map. While you are online, anyone within five miles who wants photos taken can reach you, and the offer shows the length of your booking. If the session type is not your cup of tea, don't accept it. It'll be offered to someone else.

Turn it off and the requests stop. There are no shifts to claim, no minimum to hit, and declining a job does nothing to your rating or your standing.

You keep the $5 arrival fee and $1.50 a minute.

Session complete in the Kamvo app: Megan paid $25, Kamvo’s cut of the minutes is $5, and Jordan earned $20 for 10 minutes.

$5to show up

Every job starts with a $5 arrival fee for getting to the client. All of it is yours.

75%of every minute

The client pays $2 a minute and you keep $1.50 of it from your first job — $1.60 once you earn Pro.

$0to join

Nothing to pay to sign up, and nothing to pay while waiting for job requests.

The clock starts once you're both there: tap "I'm here," the client confirms, and you start the session. Overtime runs at the same rate. Your pay unlocks when you upload the photos, then goes to your bank through Stripe whenever you request it.

What a session pays you

New job · $20now

10 min photos · 1.9 mi away. Open to accept, 30 seconds.

New job · $27.50now

15 min photos · 0.6 mi away. Open to accept, 30 seconds.

New job · $50now

30 min photos · 0.8 mi away. Open to accept, 30 seconds.

New job · $95now

60 min photos · 2.4 mi away. Open to accept, 30 seconds.

As a Pro$21.00 · $29.00 · $53.00 · $101.00

See what it pays before you say yes.

The offer shows your share of the job, its length and where it is, before you accept anything. You are never guessing at what a session is worth, and turning one down costs you nothing.

Get the app

Four steps, start to finish.

Go online

Open the app when you have time. No shifts.

Take an offer

See the pay, the length and the place. Thirty seconds to accept.

Shoot

Meet them and shoot on your phone. The clock runs in the app.

Get paid

Upload the photos within 12 hours and the money is yours.

All you need to start.

Friends at game night while a 10-minute Kamvo session runs on the photographer’s phone

A smartphone

The one already in your pocket. No camera body, no lenses, no lighting kit. If it takes pictures you would be happy to send, it is enough.

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A good eye

A link to your portfolio, or six photos of people you’ve shot. We look at every one ourselves. You’re taking casual photos people can actually use, and you decide which jobs you take.

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A valid government ID

Checked once through Stripe with a selfie to match it. Once your work is approved, verify your ID, add a bank account and you can go online.

Frequently asked questions.

I'm not a photographer. Does that matter?

No. Clients book Kamvo because they want casual photos of themselves right now, not a portfolio shoot. If you can frame a decent picture of your friends, you can do this. There’s no interview. Just show us a few photos of people you’ve taken, or a link to your work.

What if I’m not approved?

We’ll tell you why, and you can send us new work after 30 days.

How much can I make in a week?

Right now, possibly nothing. We are signing up photographers before we bring clients on, so requests are still rare. What we can tell you is what a session pays. Apply now so you are ready when it turns on, but don't quit anything for this yet.

When do I get paid?

Your share shows as Pending until you upload the client’s photos in the app, within 12 hours of the session. The moment the upload finishes it’s yours. From there you request a payout and it transfers to your connected bank through Stripe — you pick the moment, rather than waiting on a weekly cycle. There is never a client to chase for money. If the photos aren’t uploaded within 12 hours, the client is refunded and the job isn’t paid.

What is Pro?

Pro is earned, the same way for everyone: 25 sessions, a 4.8 rating or better from at least 20 ratings, and answering 90% of your offers (declining is fine; letting an offer run out counts against you). It’s awarded automatically and checked on the 1st of each month. As a Pro, Kamvo’s cut drops from 25% to 20%, so you keep $1.60 a minute: $21 of a $25 booking, $53 of a $65 one. Jobs still go to the closest photographer, Pro or not.

Am I an employee?

No — photographers are independent contractors, so taxes are not withheld from your earnings. Set some aside, and talk to a tax professional about your own situation.