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Michael Bonocore · Boise, Idaho

From the first pitch to the published story.

I sell sponsorships for publishers, then write, film, and photograph the work for the brands that buy them.

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A surfer in a wetsuit walks across a snowy beach toward the sea, with jagged snow-covered peaks behind
Photograph: Michael Bonocore · Lofoten, Norway

Clients

  • PetaPixel
  • OM SYSTEM
  • Adobe
  • Pelican
  • DxO
  • National Geographic / Lindblad Expeditions

Four services

Book any one on its own, or have me carry a sponsor from the first pitch to the finished piece.

  1. 01 Sales and Partnerships Sponsorship programs sold and managed for publishers, from the first pitch through the published work.
  2. 02 Branded Content Sponsored articles written for photography audiences, with clear sponsor disclosure and every photographer credited.
  3. 03 Film Travel and documentary films for publishers, brands, and agencies, produced from concept through delivery.
  4. 04 Photography Travel, location, and documentary photography for editorial and brand use.

For brands and for publishers

Brands and agencies

Your story, written for photographers by someone with 68 PetaPixel articles since 2021.

  • Sponsored articles concepted, written, and delivered with clear disclosure
  • Films produced on location, directly or alongside your agency
  • Photography for campaigns, editorial, and product stories

Publishers and media companies

Partnership sales from someone who also makes the work.

  • Sponsorship offers built from your inventory and sold to brand partners
  • Client management from signed agreement through publication
  • Sponsored stories, films, and photographs delivered by the same person who sold them

Sponsored stories

Written for PetaPixel and photographed on location.

All eight stories

Films

Five PetaPixel Films travel shows I produced, with my credited role under each.

All five films

Photographs

Assignments and personal work from more than 30 countries.

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A Bedouin man sits cross-legged in the sand beside three resting camels under a sandstone cliff
Wadi Rum, Jordan
A man smokes in the driver’s seat of a blue vintage Chevrolet, seen through the open window
Holguín, Cuba
Green aurora over snowy mountains and a valley at night
Lofoten, Norway
Michael Bonocore at a table with a camera and a laptop

Michael Bonocore

Hi, I’m Michael.

I spent more than a decade building a name as a travel and adventure photographer, including a two-page spread in National Geographic. Now I work on both sides of sponsored content: PetaPixel is a client for partnership sales and film production, and I write and photograph for the brands those partnerships bring in.

PetaPixel
Partnership sales, film production, writing
Duft & Watterson
Allied videographer and photographer
The Giving Lens
Photography workshops

More about Michael

Tell me what you’re planning.

A sponsorship program to sell, a sponsored story to place, a film to produce, or a shoot to book.

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