Over the past 35 years, they have photographed both primary and high schools with enrollments ranging from 40 to 4000 students. This experience and expertise in coordinating, photographing, and delivering school photos means that they are making school photography easy for thousands of Australian schools every day.
At advancedlife they are dedicated to capturing, printing, and archiving beautiful school photos that your community will love – in fact, they offer a 100% money-back guarantee! They also offer unique online systems and services for your school that are easy to use, instantly available and free!
advancedlife was founded in 1984 by Maurie and Lesley Isherwood. From the beginning they threw themselves into the task of providing affordable, high quality and professionally produced photographic keepsakes that families would treasure forever. Possessing extensive previous experience in the field of school photography, both in England and Australia, Maurie and Lesley realised how important it was that they offered schools a well organised and convenient school photo experience, so they focused on making school photography easy. As advancedlife grew, it also became a family affair. advancedlife now boasts three generations of the Isherwood family, including son Jason, their Managing Director, and daughter Debra, their Production Manager, as well as other members of the Isherwood family. Sadly, in 2018 Maurie passed away, and his good humour, integrity, and inspirational leadership are greatly missed by all who knew him.
With branches around Australia, the advancedlife team have been responsible for countless innovations in the school photography industry. These innovations include the school photobook, high resolution free online portrait download, secure online ordering, robust security systems, and even the printing of student names under group photos. Today they are continuing their tradition of innovation by developing new photographic products, as well as online services like advancedorder to help schools do away with cash handling and having to hand out student-specific envelopes; and advancedyou that gives families access to a secure archive of images and photo packages of their child taken by advancedlife through their school years.
Their latest innovation is advancedaccess – a secure online service, that’s hosted by advancedlife and provided free to their customers. With advancedaccess you can download high-resolution student, group, and promotional images (with data) for use in your school administration system within 3-5 days of photography. It also gives you and your team access to every image they've taken of your students, staff, and school, including promotional and event images, all easily found and downloaded to your computer with just a few clicks. Plus, advancedaccess features create & print, which helps school administration teams easily access their archive of images and data to instantly create and customise lists, labels, stickers, merit awards, special occasion cards, student medical directories, excursion lists featuring student data and images, and so much more. Just choose a design and print customised artwork instantly on your desktop printer.
advancedaccess now also offers Pexels – one of the world’s largest digital image libraries – free and fully accessible through advancedaccess. Discover images for a wide range of educational and promotional purposes and download them instantly.
And it’s all free….because at advancedlife they are committed to making school photography (and lots of other things!) easy.
The ideal candidate will show excellent customer service, happy to work with children, happy with early starts, and travel to schools all over greater Sydney and its surrounds, experience in photography is great but not essential… if you are willing to learn we are happy to teach it all to you!
Starting wage is between $20 - $29+ per hour. Increase further as your experience and skillset improve. Weekend and night rates are higher, as are any overnight stays needed (minimal).
Majority of applicants will start as casuals, however, opportunities to develop and grow for the right people to go permanent exist. Permanent opportunities could include Group photography, Promotional photography, and Team Leaders.