Constituted as a non-profit distributing trade association, today its membership exceeds 1,000 photographers and photographic assistants.

A photographic assistant, also known as an assistant photographer or a photographer's assistant, is "an individual with both photographic and related skills who assists a professional photographer".

Fenton took Marcus Sparling as his photographic assistant, a servant known as William and a large horse-drawn van of equipment.

After training and working as a photographer and photographic assistant, she joined the WAAF as a medical orderly after war broke out in 1939.

Mrs. Prud'homme, 32, is a photographer and is also a photographic assistant for the studio of Victor Schrager, in Manhattan.

It wasn't until he began work as a photographic assistant for a printing machine company, at age 18, that he was introduced to Irish traditional music.

Although, at first, he insisted that he did not take students, Miller soon became his photographic assistant, as well as his lover and muse.

She was born in Springfield, Ohio, and moved to Paris in the early 1920's, becoming Man Ray's photographic assistant.

He also had the opportunity to be Larry Fink's photographic assistant.

Among his photographic assistants was Yoshihiko Ueda.