21 Awesome T-Shirts for Photographers

 

I’m a big fan of Threadless and the seemingly infinite stream of hilarious t-shirts designs that are constantly being created by its dedicated community. However, I haven’t been able to find many shirts designed specifically for photographers on the service. Yesterday I tweeted a request for links to photography related t-shirt designs, and received quite a large number of interesting responses. After looking through all the links tweeted in response, here are my favorites (click the shirts to go to where they’re sold):

#1: I Can’t Draw

One of the few photography-related t-shirts I was able to find on Threadless.

icantdraw

#2: Spray and Pray

Who cares what or how you shoot if you can put it through Photoshop it afterwards?

spray

#3: Beware of the Photographer

If you’re not careful around me, you might get shot (or Photoshopped).

bewarephotog

#4: Camera Display Panel

A great shirt to confuse non-photogs. See if you can trick people into believing they’re all math symbols.

displaypanel

#5: Smile Baby

smilebaby

#6: Instant Pool Party

Threadless shirts are always top-notch.

poolparty

#7: Flasher

Hmmm…

flasher

#8: Aperture

Another minimalistic design. Maybe it’s saying “Shoot from (or at) the hip”?

aperture

#9: 18% Grey

Amazing! A shirt that doubles as a gray card…

18percent

#10: photographer’s friend

Give this to your assistant and have him or her simply stand in for a picture.

photographers friend

#11: Photographer Grrl

photographergrrl

#12: I Like To Flash People

flashpeople

#13: You are here, But I can fix that in Photoshop

youarehere

#14: oh, crop

This shirt is a chance to show just how nerdy you are.

crop

#15: photographr

For those of you who are obsessed with Flickr.

graphr

#16: Hassel

hassel

#17: What the f-stop

whatthef

#18: Camera Girl

cameragirl

#19: Photographic Memory

memory

#20: Lens

A pretty minimalistic design by Chase Jarvis. Become the lens.

aperturechase

#21: Sunny 16 Rule

If you ever forget the rule, just look in the mirror.

sunny16

Hanging Cameras

Many of the shirt designs I found simply had a camera hanging around the neck. Here are six of them:

hang1   hang2   hang3

hang4   hang5   hang6

Clever, but Text

Most of the shirts I found were clever, but only contained text. I’ve collected some here, since I didn’t want to waste space displaying too many shirts with only text on them:

Online Stores

Here are a list of online stores, shops, and merchandise pages that offer photography-related t-shirts:

Update: Received another interesting design via email, called Photoshoplifter. Check it out!

Update 2: Here’s yet another design emailed to us: Still Need The Vision


A big thank you to everyone who helped us put together this list by sending us links via Twitter! You guys are awesome! If you know of any funny/awesome/cool shirts that we didn’t include, please share it with us by leaving a comment!

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  • "You are here, But I can fix that in Photoshop" Hahaha :D
  • esani
    These are beautiful shirts. In beauty school, this kind of thinking makes for really good ideas and stuff that make things pretty. Which is great, because do we really have enough of great ideas for good causes today?

    --Esani of Esani Beauty School Atlanta
    3348 Peachtree Road Northeast
    Atlanta, GA 30326, United States
    (404) 952-2244
    Google listing should just be googled.
  • Thanks Michael for featuring my shirt at #13. I wondered why my sales spiked before Christmas. My NAPP friend @Firgs shared a link to your post this morning. Thank you so much for adding the You are Here shirt to your list.
    Blessings,
    Doug aka Hairy Baldman
  • Hey Doug,

    No problem. I'm glad you saw a sale spike :-)

    --Mike
  • Ahhhh wow hey! I was wondering where all those sudden sales were coming from :D Thanks heaps for featuring "Photographer Grrl" Michael it really is an honour. I hope you and your family enjoy the holidays.

    Ciao,
    Bexi
  • No problem! Happy holidays to you too!
  • You can find some great images here too: http://www.enoughmerch.com
  • Some more great Photoshop ones here http://www.flippinsweetgear.com/search/shop/pho...
  • jaylyn
    There should be one that says, "You are ugly. But I can fix that in Photoshop"

    Jennifer

    http://jaylynphotography.blogspot.com/
  • Jigga_G
    My favorite... http://www.threadless.com/product/227/Like_Fath...

    Threadless makes the best imo...
  • Jim
    Some great ones in here. A bunch of lame ones too, but there are definitely some good ones.
  • Melinda Kerr
  • psteele7
    Fantastic! I finally found something I can give my photog. husband for Christmas. And a gift for myself too!
  • love it
  • Solo para fotografos muy frikis
  • Oh, crop! :D

    Funky, nerdy, funny, brilliant selection! :D
  • We would love to share your shirt on the Spreadshirt blog (http://blog.spreadshirt.com) - would you be willing to share a photo?
  • I've printed one at spreadshirt.com that says "I'm a photographer, not a terrorist"
  • Hey Julien,

    The folks over at spreadshirt asked if you have a photo of your shirt for their blog.

    Their comment is directly after yours, but wasn't posted as a reply so you might not have been notified... Commenting as a reply just to let you know :-)
  • Could you have one that says, "I don't work for credit, damn it!!" :-)
  • NICE!!!! Totally cool shirts! Would totally get #19
  • Naf
  • Naf
  • Thanks for posting up 3 of my shirts!! Super awesome.
  • No problem. Nice designs :)
  • Stephen
    I found this one the other day which I quite liked
    http://www.redbubble.com/people/richardkeech/t-...
    he has some other photography shirts too and a couple of cool pics as well
  • !!! you put my hassel t-shirt here :) thanks!
  • You're welcome =)
  • Ah, the "oh crop" is cool ( yes, i am nerd i think or just ehhhhhh :-)
  • jaasland
    18% grey, Sunny 16 and oh, crop! are my favourites. Great stuff!

    Here's one of mine - a cool word cloud based on the 9/9 Leica M9 press release: http://www.cafepress.com/leicacloud
  • #15 is similar to one I also did a while ago http://www.flickr.com/photos/dani3l3/2445453969/
  • That is an AWESOME list! I need to get some photography tees lol
  • awesome, cheka esto negro
  • Cool shirts. Very creative!
  • Uriah Anderson
    CafePress also has this one:

    http://www.redbubble.com/people/animo/t-shirts/...

    Quite timely.
  • Not a fan of the two camera girl ones...at all. The others are cool...the gray card and sunny 16 are pretty nifty. I'd wear the photographic memory one; that's pretty cool.
  • guest
    I want one that says PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER in large helvetica letters, with drawings of handcuffs, nightstick, revolver and tazer below with the circle and slash, i.e. do not arrest, do not beat, do not shoot, do not taze.

    For those times when I am in the middle of "things" and the cops don't have time to look at my press ID.
  • mattbooth
    You forgot Lomosexual for all you Lomographers who love their Lomo just that bit too much - http://shop.weareboom.com/product/lomosexual
  • I love photography, but I could never see myself wearing any of these T-shirts. Maybe I'm just weird though, I've always disliked any sort of products related to a hobby that didn't actually help that hobby. Key chains, t-shirts, a related designs next to my name on my checks...I've never felt the need.

    I've always loved the I Can't Draw Design though.
  • Those are fun. A while back, my stepdaughter and her hubby got me a T-shirt that says, "I am photoblogging this." Here it is: http://www.cafepress.com/+i_am_photo_blogging_t...
  • I love the "what the f /stop" shirt. sweetness
  • thanx for featuring my "Smile Baby Retro Tee" Design!!
  • Sure :-)

    Great design!
  • i love them all
  • I need one that says, "I get paid to shoot people."

    I want the one with the grey card and the color card to put on my assistants, if I had assistants...

    I always using somebody's shirt to do that with, bad habit.
  • I've seen it there: http://www.bbmgear.com/?SectionCode=08 slightly different, it just says: I shoot people..
  • CarlD
    “What the F-Stop” .. love it.

    Cheers

    Carl
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