Despite declining photo budgets, and instability in the stock photo industry due to the availability of microstock, automated digital subscription services, and the increased accessibility of advanced digital technology, Alaska’s premier photo collection, Alaska Stock Images, is celebrating 20 years as Alaska’s largest agency providing unique professional quality Alaskan Rights-Managed and Royalty-Free stock photos.
In 1991 Jeff Schultz and two of Alaska’s finest shooters (Chris Arend and Johnny Johnson) established Alaska Stock in Jeff’s basement with 16 contributing photographers and one part-time employee. Today the agency has eight full time employees processing and selling more than 500,000 images created by over 200 contributors.
The collection is represented worldwide by over 39 agency partners. Director of Sales & Marketing, Laurie McCampbell, remarked, “The concepts are simple: innovation, agility, integrity, dependability and vision. Combine those ideas with distinctive professional quality images and superb service and you’ve got the formula for a successful stock agency. The real genius is in the commitment and execution of those root concepts.”
See 20 of the company’s
top selling images and
read Jeff’s account of 20 years in the business.