Photographer political contributions in the 2012 FEC cycle

$2,279,907 as the Photographer–2012 headline

Photographer in 2012 is $2,279,907 on 1,051 itemized lines from 395 people in the unique-donor roll-up. 2012 holds 15.8% of all-cycle Photographer dollars ($2,279,907 of $14,417,201). That is a material cycle share, still a minority of the occupation total. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle, are the source.

1,051 contributions from 395 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this occupation-cycle pair. It does not verify that those 395 people still used that title after 2012.

This page is not a restatement of the Photographer hub or of the 2012 cycle hub. The occupation hub is every cycle. The cycle hub is every occupation. The tie is the intersection: $2,279,907.

Photographer across cycles versus this 2012 slice

Filers who typed photographer produced the all-cycle occupation total of $14,417,201. PHOTOGRAPHER is the occupation string. Artist or filmmaker, if typed that way, are other keys. The join does not verify press credentials or studio ownership. Union independent expenditures are outside these figures. The occupation is not a union local roster, a stock-agency census, or a photography PAC.

Photographer itemization inside the 2012 FEC window

The 2012 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Photographer. $2,279,907 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2012. It is not a 2010 or 2014 midterm-year filter.

1,051 contributions from 395 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,279,907, 1,051, and 395 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,279,907. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,279,907. Three numbers define the Photographer × 2012 cell: dollars $2,279,907, contribution rows 1,051, unique donors 395. Share of occupation dollars is 15.8% of $14,417,201.

Occupation plus cycle is not causation

Matching Photographer with 2012 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Photographer donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a union local roster, a stock-agency census, or a photography PAC.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. PHOTOGRAPHER is the occupation string. Artist or filmmaker, if typed that way, are other keys. The join does not verify press credentials or studio ownership. Union independent expenditures are outside these figures. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Photographer donations hub is $14,417,201; the 2012 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Photographer and 2012 pages

Photographer donations holds the $14,417,201 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Photographer. All occupations places PHOTOGRAPHER beside other titles without merging sibling strings (PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTIST, and FILMMAKER). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,279,907 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Photographer dollars ($14,417,201). Use the 2012 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,279,907, 1,051 contributions, 395 donors, 15.8% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Photographer donations, the 2012 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties. Keep PHOTOGRAPHER as the occupation key and 2012 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $2,279,907.

PHOTOGRAPHER spelling and 2012

The occupation key is PHOTOGRAPHER as stored. Nearby spellings (PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTIST, and FILMMAKER) are not recoded into this join. 2012 is the cycle key. Those two keys yield $2,279,907.

If a later FEC extract restates itemized receipts, the Commission filing controls. This snapshot is the occupation-cycle pair Photographer × 2012: 1,051 contributions, 395 donors, $2,279,907. Sibling strings (PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTIST, and FILMMAKER) remain outside $2,279,907. Independent expenditures remain outside $2,279,907.

Questions

How much did Photographer donors give in 2012?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation PHOTOGRAPHER in the 2012 cycle total $2,279,907, from 1,051 contributions and 395 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Photographer-coded receipts are $14,417,201. 2012 is 15.8% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Photographer 2012 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,279,907 or in the $14,417,201 occupation figure used here. Only if the filer typed PHOTOGRAPHER. Photojournalist as a different string would sit on another occupation page. The 2012 join is $2,279,907 from 1,051 contributions and 395 donors.

Does this include photojournalists?

Only if the filer typed PHOTOGRAPHER. Photojournalist as a different string would sit on another occupation page. The 2012 cycle filter on Photographer is $2,279,907, 1,051 contributions, and 395 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $14,417,201. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 1,051 Photographer contributions and 395 donors in 2012?

The 2012 join includes 1,051 itemized contributions from 395 donors totaling $2,279,907. 1,051 contributions from 395 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.