I went to Stockholm for the weekend to see a friend of mine who is also a business associate. He works very hard but he is very unhappy about the business and he is very concerned about the future. He is exploring other options in the world of photography - but also in other businesses.
It´s not worth to work very hard to hear from picture editors that there is no money anymore in this industry. The offers he gets for his pictures are not even enough to cover the expenses.
He tells me of agencies which sell images to publishing houses for a ridiculous low monthly amount of money.
His girlfriend and partner in the business is even more desperate than him: there is no money anymore, she tells me.
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- Great Photo on Flickr? Getty Images Might Pay You For It (NYT Blog):
Getty will make payments to Flickr, but detailed terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Mr. Klein said that financially the deal will be immaterial for both Yahoo and Getty Images. Over time, however, thousands of Flickr photographers may benefit.
Getty also runs a site called iStockPhoto, where amateurs contribute photos that the company markets at lower rates. The photos on Flickr are of sufficent quality to demand higher prices, Mr. Klein said.
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An Essay by Pino Granata
If someone fifteen years ago would have told me in which direction the world of
stock photography will develope on day, I would have said that it´s not a
scenario, but a nightmare.
In the last days, Gary Shenk, Senior Vice President at Corbis, has said that micropayment sites are bringing a lot
of new customers into the marketplace. Robert Gubas, VP of Marketing
at Getty Images, says that with the advent of accessible, moderately
priced digital cameras, everyone is a protographer these days and that with the
new technologies anyone could become a distributor of photography and reach potential
customers.
I doubt very much that these people know what they are talking about.
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Corbis announced the day before yesterday an exclusive partnership with IndiaPicture.com with the core message that "this partnership will introduce over 70 million pictures from the Corbis collection to the growing Indian market".
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selling_stock_photography is a new Yahoo group created by
Fred Voetsch of Acclaim Images. In one of his first posts Fred noted that "I started this group on a whim, mainly because I was tired of the
censorship at the STOCK PHOTO forum. Yes, I actually had posts that
were not approved by the moderator. I also want this group to have a more progressive attitude but that will depend on its members".
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Micro Payment Stock Photography (MPSS) was yesterday. The successor No Payment Stock Photography (NPSS) has just arrived.
Yesterday it was all about a few nickels or bucks for stock photos. Now it sounds with an exclamation point: "Not Royalty Free, But Totally Free Stock Photography!" and "Our images want to be used".
Photographer Chance Agrella and some photographers have started to upload 5000+ images to a new stock photo website called FreerangeStock, launched in January 2006. According to a recent interview, Agrella has been a media producer, photographer and designer for 12 years.
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