The blog is part of a course YVIA313 Development of Public Relations processes in history in University of Jyväskylä.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Build up your image with one shot


Famous artists, politicians and other public persons work hardly to build up them image. Companies also try to create good perception and image of them products or services with the public. For image building can be used many tools.

Among one of the most effective tools can be mentioned photography. Sometimes pictures can quickly damage the person’s or company’s image (as McDonald experienced story with widely published chicken nuggets picture).

Or Janet Jackson just with one picture managed to create scandal and get most media attention. Her breast exposure moment even appeared as CNN lead story on February 2, 2004 on national television.



As we see, pictures can be very effective tools for representing yourself and creating your personal brand in the virtual environment and media.  

Talking about the pictures, which form image, the first idea, that often comes to mind is paparazzi shots. Paparazzi pictures traditionally goes together with celebrities brand. They are main formers of the brand. For example, the last years Britney Spear was a target of paparazzi and her negative image was mainly formed by them.




Paparazzi pictures are really “dangerous” when you try to build up best opinion about your brand, because you cannot control and plan them. But sometimes paparazzi specialize to opposite activity and start taking planned PR pictures. As it made PR Photos company. From being celebrities’ enemies they became best friends.

They transformed from paparazzi to PR Photos. Our company name changed in order to form a stronger and better alliance with Celebrities and PR Firms worldwide.

In this PR Photos companies web page you can find thousands of celebrites’ photos. And taking the same example - Britney Spears, you won’t find any compromising pictures of her.

Check her pictures, press here.


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