Need 'A Little Respect'?

Posted on 7/21/2009 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (3)

Recently, a very talented and successful photographer who produces both rights-managed and traditional royalty-free images was bemoaning the sorry state of the stock photo industry. He said: "We need a little respect [for our work]."

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Maggie Hunt Posted Jul 21, 2009
Here's how StockShop shows respect: our photographers receive 50% of gross license fee for RM images and 50% of net license fee for RF. Granted, we are a small agency (but there are those who love us) and don't generate the volume of sales that Corbis, Getty, Alamy do - nor do we offer microstock. However, we know that we would be nothing without our contributors.

Jagdish Agarwal Posted Jul 22, 2009
Same here. Dinodia Photos in India too pays 50% to photographers, sends a monthly newsletter, conducts an artwalk every Saturday, has lunch meetings about once in three months, gives annual awards to top performing photographers, organises motivational camps, etc. etc. We just had an exhibition, where on the last day prints were auctioned and all prints sold. And in these times of gloom and doom, we sold a picture last week for about US$8000 which is a lot of money for an Indian photographer. Respect can be different for different photographers. Let us all concentrate on creating better pictures. Best wishes.

Carl Purcell Posted Jul 22, 2009
Show me the money.

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