At the end of every college semester, I get bothered with dm’s and emails to my personal accounts from strange kids asking me to employ them as interns for the following semester.

This is an inefficient and infuriating system. The proper system is to know someone who knows someone who can get you in through the backdoor without having to do some sort of bullshit formality, because after all, this is a magazine about people who do crime, and drugs, and make art, and go surfing, and jump down stairs on silly wooden toys, and all sorts of other things that frighten-yet-arouse your grandparents. However, it must be admitted that that system is also inefficient, but more importantly, unfair. You shouldn’t have to know me in order to get an internship at MC, particularly because by virtue of wanting to know me, I don’t want to know you. And yet, there is a necessity nonetheless for help with things around these parts - content creation, and what not - and rather than pull paid contributors on without knowing if they’re dogshit at what they claim to do, an internship allows us to see your stuff, and get you to a place where you are being paid for it, and ideally, you’ll have met enough people in the process to be quite a profitable little creative island - an applicable photo/video maker for all kinds of places, and all while earning a bit of school credit.

This coming semester, Spring 2025, Monster Children USA is seeking one (1) photography/video intern in Los Angeles and one (1) video intern in New York City. In this internship role, you will gain experience necessary for a career as a photographer or videographer in the fields of music, art, skateboarding, or surfing, as well as editorial and documentary experience. Additionally, you will gain experience in event management and e-commerce.

As a photo intern, some of your responsibilities will include:

• Creating original, beautiful, exciting, captivating social-oriented and large-scale photographic content.

• Photographing and designing flat-lays of products and merchandise.

• Photographing dynamic live events and parties.

• Photographing live concerts and artists under unique and ever-changing lighting circumstance.

• Arranging times, locations, and concepts for photographing editorial subjects.

• Assisting in the production of promotional zines and photo prints as needed.

• Assisting in the production of gallery showings and photography-centric events.

• Getting Naz or Elena or possibly James or Luke iced coffees from either Variety Wycoff or Stories Echo Park.

As a video intern, some of your responsibilities will include:

• Creating original, entertaining, beautiful, captivating social-oriented and long-form video content.

• Shooting and editing bi-weekly short-form vertical documentary and editorial video content.

• Filming live events under diverse and ever-changing lighting circumstances.

• Assisting in the production of original narrative and documentary projects.

• Assisting in the production of live events and parties with specific charge of projection and video components.

• Solving complex and challenging sets of production problems as they arise due to changing shoot circumstances (ie, this subject wants to be interviewed on camera while riding a rollercoaster- how would you shoot that?)

• Getting Naz or Elena or possibly James or Luke iced coffees from either Variety Wycoff or Stories Echo Park.

The goals of internship roles at Monster Children are to gain real life, hands on experience in the participant’s specific creative fields that will allow them to excel in their professional lives, to train participants to overcome diverse sets of challenges as they arise and pertain to the participant’s specific creative fields, to have created a sprawling network of professionals and resources in the participant’s specific creative fields, and to have developed a solid, diverse, professional portfolio for the participant before the end of their period of involvement.

‘Interning at Monster Children pushed me out of my comfort zone and into weird and epic rooms with weird and epic people. I had the opportunity to shoot a festival with some of my favorite artists, work closely on a big gallery event for the 20th anniversary issue launch, and meet dozens of incredible creative people that inspired me with every interaction. My portfolio tripled in size, and I am a better artist and person because of my job with this magazine.’ - Elena Saviano, MC Photo Intern, Spring 2023

To apply for an internship with Monster Children, send your resume and any relevant work (videos, website, portfolio, clippings) to naz@monsterchildren.com and under no circumstances should you dm him about it (or anybody, please leave everyone alone, no editors like that or think that’s a good way to contact them about gigs).

This internship opportunity is USA only, specifically Los Angeles and New York City. Monster Children is able to report to and coordinate with school faculty as needed to ensure compliance with credit requirements. Equipment (cameras, editing software, laptops, etc) is not provided, but meals and distance-travel (out-of-state/city) are.