To cultivate friendship and mutual understanding between photographers. ASMP has brought together photographers from every discipline. Advertising, annual reports, architecture, corporate, editorial, fashion, medical, special effects, sports and stock are but a few of the over twenty-five specialties listed by members in the ASMP membership Directory. Regardless of discipline or specialty, photographers share common problems. Copyright and business concerns do not vary greatly.
Specialties require special adjustments to major themes.
ASMP provides guidance to all, by calling on the wealth of knowledge possessed by it most successful members in every discipline and asking them to share their knowledge with others. ASMP publishes information for its members on a regular basis. It designs and stages seminars across the country through its network of chapters in most of the major cities. It actively lobbies against state and federal laws that have detrimental effects on photographers. It has been effective in changing tax laws, right of privacy laws and in shaping proposed legislation.