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How these guides are written
The Liaison guides are written from first-hand experience shooting concerts in Paris, not compiled from other websites. Practice that varies by venue or promoter is described as varying rather than stated as a rule, and legal or administrative specifics point to the official source instead of quoting a figure that changes annually.
A guide is only worth citing if you can tell where it came from. Here is where this one came from.
Where the material comes from
These guides are written from first-hand experience shooting concerts in Paris: requesting accreditation, being refused, working pits of very different sizes, delivering to promoters, and invoicing for it. Where a claim rests on experience rather than a published rule, it is written as experience.
What is stated as a rule and what is not
Very little in this job is a universal rule. The three-song limit is close to one; almost nothing else is. Venue camera policy varies by room and is routinely overridden by the touring artist's own policy for the night. Accreditation practice varies by promoter. Where that is true, the guides say so instead of inventing a rule that would be wrong as often as right.
What is deliberately not stated here
Legal and administrative specifics — registration thresholds, social contribution rates, tax treatment — change annually and vary by situation. The guides describe the shape of the decision and then point to the official source rather than restating a figure that will be stale within the year. Any number you find in a guide of this kind, including this one, should be checked against the authority that publishes it.
Individual venues, promoters and artists are not named in a judgemental context. Describing a specific room as difficult would be one photographer's night generalised into a reputation.
Dates
Every guide carries the date it was published and the date it was last reviewed. They are separate on purpose: a page that has not changed in months may still be current, and a page rewritten yesterday is not automatically right.
When something is wrong
Errors get corrected and logged rather than quietly edited. See corrections.
Common questions
- Are these guides written from experience or research?
- Experience, shooting concerts in Paris. Where something rests on a published rule rather than practice, the guide says which it is.
- Why are there so few numbers in the legal guides?
- Rates and thresholds change annually. Pointing to the authority that publishes them is more useful than a figure that goes stale.
- Do you name specific venues or promoters as difficult?
- No. That would generalise one photographer's night into a reputation.
- How do I report an error?
- Write to the studio address published on the privacy page. Corrections are logged with the date on the corrections page.
The guides describe the method. Liaison is where you apply it — every listed Paris show, with the promoter behind it.
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