Where Is Stock Photography Headed in 2019?

Posted on 12/10/2018 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (2)

I was asked recently for my predictions on where the stock photo industry is headed in 2019. There will continue to be massive growth in the number of images added to the major stock photo collections. An increasing percentage will be produced by amateurs not professionals who might be trying to earn a portion of their living from the images they produce.

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Jesse Hughes Posted Dec 15, 2018
Jim. Great article!! Really good snap shot into the future I would like to hear more about video if you have time. It would be good to get your laser focus on that. Jim E

jasmin awad Posted Mar 2, 2019
Hi Jim, the people you called amateurs tend to be professionally trained photographers based in countries with extremly low costs of living. They do stock like anyone else, to balance the time between assignement work. If you look at one of the Shutterstock reports, it shows that an extremly large number of their producers come from Russia and or Asia. These are talented professionals, that are using their cost advantage. Amatuers will upload flowers, a little travel or pets. But they don‘t spend money on professional shootings with releases, art direction and planning. Nobody does that for likes. They might invest art photography for fun, or all things with pretty young ladies, dressed or undressed, but professional stock artists have always avoided genres popular with people who enjoy sharing it for free. Art and flower photography are an unlikely business decision for stockers. But professionals in high cost countries have ro deal with the competition from low cost countries, but that is not new. I have friends who travel abroad regularly to do shootings in parts of the world that are much cheaper for production. Some even move there, yuri didn‘t go to South Africa just for the beautiful light.

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