- PhotoShelter Town Hall, New Stock and Old Arguments:
What started off with PhotoShelter CEO and founder Allen Murabayashi gently prodding Getty and Corbis employees in the audience with "we know you´re out there", ended up as a full-blown airing of grievances against Getty. Photographer Kareem Black, who was also on the panel, has been represented by Getty for years and said he has watched his checks "go down over the years". "They believe in quantity rather than quality", he complained. "Someone's making money, but the photographers aren´t." [...]
Likewise the whole industry seems in a state of unprecedented foment most of the time, but also terrified of the speed and complexity of all these radical changes.
Miki Johnson/AmPhoto in an extensive report about the session last Friday in NY.
More details about the PhotoShelter Collection in the press release.