Founding-Member Doors Open June 16, 2026
A Movement for Volume Sports Photographers

The Edit Is Eating Your Season.

The Family ends that.

Photo Mafia is the community teaching the exact shooting and Evoto editing system the Jerry Hughes Photography team has perfected over 13 years. Cheer. Gymnastics. Team & individual. Shot faster. Delivered before your competition has packed their gear.

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What Photo Mafia Is

This Isn't a Course. It's a Family.

A movement built for volume sports photographers — a place to learn the craft, sharpen the business, and stop competing alone. You're either in the Family, or you're figuring it out the hard way.

01

Learn the Method

The shooting and editing system Jerry Hughes Photography has refined over 13 years — taught technique by technique, in order, by the team that built it.

02

Move With the Family

A private circle that actually answers when you call. Workflow questions, pricing questions, gear questions — asked and answered by people who run the same jobs you do.

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Run by Photographers

Not Marketers. Operators.

Three working photographers, three angles on the volume business. Every lesson, every tool, every dollar of advice has been run through real shoot weekends.

JH

Jerry Hughes

Volume · Sports · The Method

13 years deep in the volume business. If it involves a gym floor, a green screen, and a six-figure weekend, Jerry's done it more than anyone teaching online.

PH

Peyton Hughes

Lighting · BTS · The Field

On the camera and in front of it. Peyton runs the technical side — lighting setups, on-location problem-solving, and field reports from real jobs.

KS

Kadi Schenk

Operations · Systems · The Engine Room

Studio owner and the Family's operations engine. Builds the systems, tools, and infrastructure that turn shoot day into payday. Concept to fulfillment, every time.

Opening Night

Here's What's Loaded for June 16.

The doors open with these four ready to go. More lands every week after that.

Marquee Series

Inside a 300-Athlete Job

Three-part docu-series: shoot day, edit night, delivery morning. Every shortcut, every mistake, every dollar. On camera.

Weekly Podcast

The Photo Mafia Podcast

Guest interviews with the operators most photographers only hear about. The questions you'd ask if you got them in a room.

The Library

The Posing Playbook

Posing charts for every sport — team and individual. The system Jerry's team uses on $40K weekends. Built to scale, free samples on day one.

Live Sessions

Weekly Office Hours

Rotating hosts. Ask anything. Free for the Family. This is where the real teaching happens — between the camera and the keyboard.

Free for the First 500

Get the Background Pack Now.

Drop your email and we'll send the white / gray / black background pack the Jerry Hughes team uses on actual shoot days. No upsell. No catch. Just the first piece of the system.

The Free Side

The Public Group Is Open.

Hop into the Photo Mafia Facebook group while you wait — it's where the Family hangs out before the doors open.

Join the Facebook Group →
One Last Thing

The Door Is Open. The Family Is Forming.

You can scramble to figure it out from strangers and half-finished Facebook posts. Or you can walk in the door, claim your spot, and learn the system from the team that built it.