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74.20
Class
Photographic activities
SDMX: N7420
Class Level
4 Depth
0 Children
0 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes

✓ Includes

This class includes: - commercial and consumer photography: • portrait photography for passports, schools, weddings, etc. • photography for commercials, publishers, fashion, real estate or tourism purposes • aerial and underwater photography • videotaping of events: weddings, meetings, etc. - film processing: • developing, printing and enlarging from client-taken negatives or cine-films • film developing and photo printing laboratories • one-hour photo shops (not part of shops selling cameras) • mounting of slides • copying and restoring or transparency retouching in connection with photographs - activities of photojournalists - activities of artistic photographs

+ Also Includes

This class also includes: - microfilming of documents - digitising photographs, uploading video to the cloud - object scanning in 3D

✗ Excludes

This class excludes: - activities of printing photographs (from mobile telephones, memory cards, universal serial bus (USB) and other electronic supports), see 18.12 - processing motion picture film related to motion picture and television industries, see 59.12 - cartographic and spatial information activities, see 71.12 - photogrammetric surveying activities, see 71.12 - operation of coin-operated (self-service) photo machines, see 96.99

Who is this code for?

Verified: SEMANTIC_SECTION_MATRIX

Chemical scientists

SOC 2020:2111
Common titles: Chemist, Lab technician
Common titles: Solicitor, Lawyer, Attorney

Evidence: Representative SOC 2020 occupations for SIC Section M (Photographic activities).

Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) — UK SIC 2026
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