Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Blend Images Launches Rights-Managed Image Collection

Las Vegas, NV, Feb. 19, 2009. Blend Images, the world’s leading multiethnic stock photography agency, announced today it has launched a new rights-managed image collection, strengthening their commercial offering at blendimages.com.

The Blend Images rights-managed collection launches with 3,000 images, featuring powerful photos from the industry’s top photographers. The collection focuses on multiethnic lifestyle and business imagery with conceptual, highly stylized, contemporary images that offer high production value and premium quality. New images will continue to be released each month.

Ten new Rights-Managed Collections available at Masterfile

Toronto/Düsseldorf, Dec. 2008. Over the last two months ten new collections incorporating over 50,000 RM images from new partners went online at masterfile.com as part of Masterfile’s strategy to expand the range of subjects and themes available on its website.

Starting in October lifestyle images from Creasource, the conceptual and business imagery of “I Dream Stock” and “eC Pro” were among the first added; followed by imagery from the iRepublic collection, including their Asian lifestyle imagery, and evocative landscape and nature imagery from the “Irish Made Collection” (IIC). Blend Images with its international people and lifestyle collection completed the first wave of six new collection uploads.

Reflex Stock to distribute The Irish Image Collection

UK, Nov. 28, 2008. Reflex Stock, a leading independent supplier of stock photography, has launched a new collection of rights managed images focused on iconic images of Ireland.

The Irish Image Collection is one of the most comprehensive archive of Irish images in the world and covers the entire spectrum of Ireland and Northern Ireland, including landscapes, cityscapes, life styles, travel, history, and imagery focused on the culture & heritage of the Irish people.

Veer launches new illustration collection Cherry

Bright, bold and relevant, Cherry reflects a trend toward a more hand-crafted aesthetic

Calgary, Nov. 06, 2008, Calgary. Veer, a producer and provider of visual elements and design-related products, has launched Cherry™, a new exclusive rights managed (RM) illustration collection.

The Cherry collection reflects the trend in illustration toward a DIY/analog aesthetic. The illustrators are a generation of artists as skilled with image software tools as they are with traditional drawing tools. Having grown up with computers and cable television but influenced by street art and graffiti, graphic novels, and Japanese animation, the artists’ work presents a more handcrafted quality.

New RM Photography Source International Collections Worldwide

Paris, France Oct. 07, 2008. Believing that there is a strong market for excellent rights managed photography, that photographers expect care and consideration and that creatives are seeking an alternative source, International Collections Worldwide, Inc. today announces the creation of the new RM source ic.worldwide.  

In a distinct break from current stock photography trends, IC represents a tightly edited collection of photography purposefully selected to celebrate visual impact, quality over quantity, and diversity for those who prefer images as original and creative as their concepts.

Look Photography launches SHELTERED Images, RM Collection of Home and Architecture Imagery

San Clemente, CA, Oct. 01, 2008. LOOK Photography, a California based, photo agency specializing in Home and Architectural imagery, has launched a new RM image collection, SHELTERED Images.

SHELTERED Images delivers the exclusive inside access to the world’s most beautiful homes and private retreats. With an emphasis on contemporary architectural themes, SHELTERED Images takes you to the most stunning residences across the globe, presenting the real-life work of builders, architects and designers. The collection addresses a growing trend of requests for unrestricted  home and architectural imagery that can be licensed either commercially for single image downloads or as editorial feature stories. 

Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery

New Flickr Collection on gettyimages.com to Provide Customers Even More Authentic, Diverse and Regionally Relevant Imagery

Seattle, WA & San Francisco, CA, July 08, 2008. Getty Images, the world´s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, and Flickr™, a division of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) and one of the world's largest photo sharing communities, today announce a collaboration that unites the authenticity of images from the Flickr community with Getty Images' imagery collections, photographic expertise and unrivalled experience in licensing digital media.

The exclusive partnership allows Getty Images to invite Flickr members to participate in a Flickr branded collection on www.gettyimages.com that will be available for licensing to Getty Images´ creative, commercial and editorial customers in the coming months.

Against all odds – Westend61 increases prices and tightens its collections

Fuerstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Apr. 16, 2008. As of May 1st 2008, Westend61 will increase the prices of its royalty free imagery in printing format by an average of 25%. Stephan Bock, Westend61’s CEO, explains: „Our royalty free collection is an international player in the Champions League. Our products Made in Germany are appreciated by more than 180 partner agencies all over the world. However, keeping and continuously improving this high level requires increased investments in research, productions and in a highly skilled and motivated team at Westend61. Therefore, we will go against the current trend in the business and increase our prices. Quality has to have its price.“

Westend61 will at the same time remove those images from its collection that do not meet the quality requirements or have not been sought by customers for a longer period of time. This applies to both licensing models offered by the agency. 3,000 royalty free images have been removed from its collection in December 2007.

RF and RM Submissions, Now at Inmagine!

Houston, TX, Apr. 08, 2008. Royalty-Free stock photo library Inmagine Corp LLC is now accepting submissions from image suppliers and professional photographers into its IRIS (Inmagine RM & RF Image Submission) collection. Set to be launched in the second quarter of 2008, IRIS will represent the best Royalty-Free and Rights-Managed works from their respective portfolios.

“We've been in the stock photo industry for nearly a decade and we know how professional photographers feel about their work. We believe with Inmagine Submissions, we can directly offer suppliers and photographers 3 essential values – Control, Transparency and Service Assurance!” says Stephanie Sitt, VP of Sales and Marketing for Inmagine Corp LLC.

Corbis Broadens Creative Scope with New Collections, Adds Cultura, Jon Arnold RF, Hemis, Document Iran and 81A Productions

Seattle, WA, Feb. 05, 2008. Corbis, a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals, today announced the addition of several new stock collections to its existing catalogue. Corbis now offers access to select rights-managed (RM) and royalty-free (RF) images from Cultura, Jon Arnold RF, Hemis, Document Iran and 81A Productions from Photolibrary.

"These new collections demonstrate our continued to commitment to offering the widest range of images for our customers", said Ross Sutherland, Chief Creative Office, Corbis. "Each collection offers something different while meeting Corbis´ high standards of quality and originality". The new collections comprise a wide range of different subjects spanning contemporary Europe, global travel and Iranian culture. Through addressing these new subjects in different styles, the collections offer new avenues for inspiration and opportunities for creativity.