Image Warehouse unveils 'New Deal' for Photographers & Artists

The Professional’s Stock Image Agency Offers Free Membership & Better Personal Service w/Perks

Princeton, NJ, Oct. 22, 2008. Image Warehouse, the “true” stock agency, is reaching out anew in our changing business climate and building its client roster, with better deals and services than are available anywhere else. "We want everyone to know that there is a stock company that is looking out for the individual photographer and artist," said Carroll Seghers, president of Image Warehouse. "We are lighting the technology path to widen more profitable access to your work."

To better serve our active professional photographer & artist clients, Image Warehouse is committed to the following:

Our inventory is original client stock only

• We do not buy or own other people’s images or hire photographers to shoot images. Therefore there is no “conflict of interest” like at some of the “big stock houses,” where they favor company- owned images vs. contributed images due to revenue split.

100% Transparency of Sales

• When a picture license is sold, the photographer is sent an email with the information and the sales data is recorded in their “My Account” area, on a real-time basis.

Image Warehouse offers account choices

• With the new Image Warehouse Sellers Account, artists can upload and offer their images for sale for free (with no archiving fee).
• The Image Warehouse Full Service Account is for those who want “best practices” backup protection of their high quality images at a modest monthly fee, along with the bonus ability to publish images for sale.

Standard Sales Commission fee is 15% on all sales

• The best payout rate (85%) for contributing artists, with no out-of-pocket expense for credit cards.

No exclusivity requirement

• We earn your trust and respect your freedom of choice

The Image Warehouse site is Google ® searchable

• Unlike many stock sites that do not allow “Google-bots” access to their images’ keywords, Image Warehouse keywords are visible and therefore provide “organic ranking” positioning in the Google “natural search” results area. This is the most respected reference area, resulting in greater new buyer traffic.

Image Warehouse is photographer & artist-driven

• The images that are published are selected by the photographer, keyworded and priced by the client, who also decides what license rights will be offered (e.g. Rights-managed Editorial / Commercial or Art Prints, all three, or only Royalty-free). At most stock houses, the in-house editorial staff makes all decisions, unilaterally, about work submitted by artists.
• As members of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and the Professional Photographers Association (PPA), we adhere to their high ethical standards and principles. (Most other stock “houses” are not members.)

Please be on the lookout for the in house members only “Phot‘08” (PHOTO of the year ’08) contest. For applications please go to our website www.i-warehouse.com after November 15 th to download an entry form.

 

About Image Warehouse

Image Warehouse (www.i-warehouse.com) is an internationally oriented, artist and photographer driven, image archiving and stock picture sales agency, headquartered in the greater NYC metropolitan area. Image Warehouse provides professional photographers and other artists with online image archiving, sales representation, order processing & fulfillment, and self-promotion capabilities through its custom application software. The servers, application and stored files are redundantly co-located in two geographically diverse data centers in the United States. Photographers are able to decide which of their uploaded images are presented for sale, as well as the terms of commercial/editorial use license or art print sales, and their respective pricing. Public Gallery images are offered on a rights-managed or royalty-free basis to commercial art directors/creative directors, graphic designers, and web site developers. Art prints are also available for interior decorators and collectors. Image Warehouse offers subscribing members the ability to interact with several applications designed to support self-promotional efforts such as e-Postcards, email LightBoxes, and link codes for their individual website to link solely to their pictures on display at Image Warehouse.

History

The company was founded by photo industry veterans Carroll Seghers and Allen Lieberman in October 2005, as digi-Vault.com, an online image archiving service. During the next two years, it transitioned into stock photo sales and archiving agency. With over 75 years of combined experience in commercial & editorial photography, stock photo sales, photo products marketing and sales, and the photofinishing business, the principals of the company are well aware of the challenges and needs of today’s photographers and illustrators.

 

Comments

[pogomcl]

it's interesting news, but the site is a bit messy. Why should anyone be registering the credit card info on an unencrypted page? And why should a company be exposing personal details on an unencrypted page?

site seems funky and not so trustworthy.

[Michael]

Association with Stock Artists Alliance would seem appropriate...

[pogomcl]

is more than funky-- photog beware-- got bounceback with illegal alias message..

[t]

I see they put up a little money to advertise in PDN magazines recent issue about stock. That's one plus, I was surprised to see that only a few stock sites felt it appropriate to advertise in this issue.