Contributors
Jose Azel
José Azel received a BA from Cornell University in 1976. There he began shooting pictures for the annual. After completing his Masters in Journalism at the University of Missouri, he joined the staff of the Miami Herald, where he worked for four years. From 1981, until 1997, Azel freelanced as a photographer for international magazines such as, National Geographic, Smithsonian,…
Paul Brown
Paul Brown is a stock photography industry professional with nearly three decades of industry experience at Rex Features a UK based independent photographic press agency and picture library. In November 2006 Paul Brown was appointed Managing Director of Mary Evans Picture Library a noteworthy source of historical imagery also based in the UK. Paul has been a member of the…
Gary Crabbe
Gary currently resides in Pleasant Hill, California, just outside San Francisco. Gary began taking pictures while attending Humboldt State University, where he received a Bachelors Degree in Social and Adolescent Psychology, and a Masters Degree in Directing, Acting, Writing, and Production for the Theater. His interest in photography began to grow after taking an elective class in Black & White,…
Meg Asaro & Karen D’Silva
Karen D'Silva 13 years in Stock Photography business.After working at Image Bank, Getty and leading the Creative team at Photonica, I have an unbeatable track record for seeing ideas through to campaigns, understanding how to build the bridge to interpreting context for image makers.1992-95 Image Bank Core Editor for Concept section, 1995-00 Image Bank Senior Art director, 2000-01 Getty Senior…
Rohn Engh
Rohn Eng is the Founder and director of PhotoSource International, a website that provides photo marketing services to the photo buying and photo supply industry in the U.S. and abroad. Starting in 1976 with one market letter, the company soon expanded to four market letters plus ancillary marketing products. PhotoSource International is located at Pine Lake Farm near Osceola, Wisconsin…
Chris Ferrone
Chris Ferrone began working in the stock photo industry in 1987. He managed Index Stock Imagery’s Los Angeles sales office for ten years while also serving as that company’s VP of International Sales. In 2001, Chris founded his own image licensing business, Xenofile Images, Inc., which, in partnership with H. Armstrong Roberts Company of Philadelphia, started the vintage stock image…
Stefan Hartmann
Stefan Hartmann PhD studied philosophy, history and literature at the universities of Karlsruhe and Heidelberg. He gained a doctorate in philosophy of sciences and econometrics on the subject of probability and multivalued logic and has taught at various German universities and academies. Since 1999, Stefan Hartmann has been Editor of the specialist magazines VISUELL International (in English) and VISUELL (German).
Dan Heller
Dan Heller, is a freelance photographer from in Marin County, California with a rather simple business model: Dan goes on adventure travel trips on assignment for companies who hire him to take pictures that they can use for their catalogs to promote their trips. He then uses those same images to sell fine art prints, or to relicense to other…
Paul Henning
Paul H. Henning is the founder of Stock Answers LLC a consultancy founded in 1999 to fill what he perceived as a significant dearth of available expertise to aid small & medium stock picture agencies, as well as both neophyte and higher level photographers producing stock images. Henning heads up this “virtual company” which is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. …
Pat Hunt
Pat Hunt is a feature writer for the Stock Photography industry and the Executive Editor of MacTribe. She teaches, lectures, and works with everything Mac. "Nothing beats it for photography and design." She is also VP of Corporate Relations at Index Stock Imagery and board member of The Center for Innovation and Change Leadership at Suffolk Business School.path@mactribe.com
Mani Karthik
Mani likes to call himself an “Internet Enthusiast." He graduated in Business Administration from Bharathiar University, India. He has diverse interests – in marketing, internet, brands and advertising. Mani has worked in the sales department of a few Telecom MNC’s in India and Ad-agencies in the middle-east and is also a freelance web-designer, photography enthusiast and an advertising consultant. Mani writes about emerging technologies on his blog “A daily dose…
Joe Klementovich
As a freelance photographer, editorial and advertising Joe Klementovich's work has filled up most of his time, contributing to likes of Climbing, Couloir, and Shape Magazine or working with clients such as Eastern Mountain Sports, New Hampshire Department of Travel and Tourism and Wild Things. Joe has spent years randomly traveling, Chamonix, Yosemite, Newfoundland but his favorite places are in…
Dexter Lane
Dexter Lane, who had the pleasure of working with Peter Arnold for 10 years, is now flying solo; developing several photo-related projects. Web: www.dexterlane.com
Jain Lemos
Jain Lemos is a writer who knows the worth of pictures. As a photography consultant based in Southern California, she brings more than twenty years of deep involvement in all aspects of licensing, publishing and promoting professional photography to the table. Jain has worn many hats-from writer and senior editor to agent, production manager and book packager-working with top creative…
Samer Mohdad
Samer Mohdad was born in Bzebdine, Lebanon in 1964. In 1988, began working in Paris for Vu agency. In 1990 the Elysée Museum in Lausanne commissioned him a series of photographs on the Swiss army during the country's 700th birthday for a book and exhibition entitled ‘Voir la Suisse autrement’. He then began his work on contemporary Arab world. 1992-1996…
George Munday
George Munday graduated from the Birmingham (England) School of Photography in 1975. After leaving college he became a photo - journalist for four years, before moving to Ireland to become a business partner in an advertising and commercial studio, later becoming a stock photography agency.Last year he set up Copper Coast Workshops which offers residential, weekend workshops for digital photograpers.…
John Nack
John Nack is a Sr. Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop. Prior to joining Adobe John was a Web designer and animator at AGENCY.COM New York, where we developed online content for clients such as Gucci, Nike, British Airways, and Coca-Cola. That experience convinced him that design tools could and had to be better, leading him to join Adobe's Internet Products…
Nancy Wolff
Nancy Wolff is a partner at the entertainment law firm of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard located in New York City. Practicing primarily in intellectual property and digital media law, clients include trade associations Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) and PLUS, Inc., and many stock photo libraries, individual photographers, authors, illustrators, designers, publishers and digital media companies. She recently…
Kristen Nicole
Kristen Nicole graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in biopsychology, giving her a unique perpective on the coupling of social science and biology. Kristen's interest is with the growing culture of the internet. Kristen began her professional career doing research at Eli Lily in Indianapolis, IN before moving to Chicago where she worked as a Senior Manager…
Gwen Norman
Gwen Norman is a production assistant at Aurora Photos. At Aurora, Gwen writes and maintains the Aurora News blog and works in assisting photographers with the technical aspects of submitting and uploading images to the Aurora website. Before arriving at Aurora, Gwen graduated with a degree in Visual Journalism, where upon she completed a photo internship with National Geographic Traveler…
Jon Ogg
Jon Ogg is a partner in 24/7 Wall St., LLC and has been a News Analyst for nearly 10 years and also has experience as a broker, portfolio manager & investment advisor. He has been sourced for articles in CBS Marketwatch, E*Trade, TradeTheNews, FlyOnTheWall, Pristine, Evolution Trading, Knova Trading, Hammerstone, CNet.com, Seeking Alpha, Google Finance & other sites. Prior to…
Liz Pepper
A graduate from Cambridge University with a Masters degree in French and German, Liz Pepper has developed her career in international business, sales and marketing over the last 10 years and she has lived and worked in France, Germany, Austria and Japan. Liz's track record of success in sales management and training has spanned diverse industry sectors including tourism, finance…
Celia Peterson
Celia Peterson is the founder of arabianEye and Blink Images. Celia founded arabianEye in 2004 to meet the growing need for high-quality Middle Eastern and Islamic imagery, and it has now grown to be the largest editorial and commercial library of its kind.In addition, arabianEye represents a number of high-end commercial and reportage photographers, whose editorial commisions have recently appeared…
Brent Phelps
Brent Phelps has more than a decade of experience working in the photo industry with a broad base of experience in various roles. After completing an education in Photography from the Colorado Institute of Art, Brent began working as a freelance photo assistant and over the next two years worked in no less than 100 commercial photo studios located in…
Betsy Reid
Betsy Reid is Executive Director of Stock Artists Alliance, the only global trade association that's dedicated to the business of stock photographers. In addition to her role with SAA, she has partnered with her husband, photographer Ken Reid for the past 15 years in creating stock imagery represented by several leading distributors and via Zoomstock, their rights managed collection of…
Roger Ressmeyer
Roger Ressmeyer’s brilliant career as a photojournalist has its roots in his childhood fascination with space exploration. In 1962, when Roger was eight years old, John Glenn became America’s first man in orbit and captured young Ressmeyer’s imagination. By the age of eleven, Roger was building elaborate model rockets, polishing optics for telescopes he built by hand, and photographing the…
Derick Rhodes
Derick Rhodes is the founding Project Manager for the Berlin-based fStop Royalty-Free library (www.fstopimages.com), which launched in the Spring of 2001. Having earned both his B.A. (University of Virginia) and Masters (University of South Carolina) in English Literature in the mid-90s, Derick quickly realized that a career in stock photography would be more lucrative than the trivial pursuit of knowledge. …
Dan Taylor
Dan is an American living in Vienna, Austria. He grew up in upstate New York, went to University in Rochester, NY, has lived in Toronto, Canada, New York City, Oxford, England, and Vienna, Austria. Dan has traveled to 5 out of 7 continents and enjoy spending time with his wife and dog, photography, film making, guitar, and sampling some of…
TJ Tierney
TJ Tierney is an award winning Irish Landscape photographer. For more tips you can visit www.goldenirishlight.com.
Kimber VanRy
Kimber VanRy is the Channel Sales Manager at Thought Equity Motion, the world's largest supplier of online motion content, licensing and professional representation services to the agency, entertainment, and corporate production industries.
Patricia Widyn
Patricia Widyn, is the VP, Art Buying Manager at Wunderman
Wayne E. Yang
Wayne E. Yang is a New York-based writer / photographer. Yang grew up in South Carolina, where he learned to eat grits the proper way: smothered with butter and sprinkled with salt. You can imagine his horror when he went to graduate school in upstate New York and saw people eating their grits with milk and sugar. Wayne E. Yang’s…
Takashi Yoshida
Takashi Yoshida is the owner-director of PLANS, Ltd. a consulting company for Japan’s Stock Photo Industry since 1982. Previously Mr. Yoshida has worked as a photographer in New York City and also traveled the United States extensively having visited all 50 states. As a photographer Mr. Yoshida has completed many editorial photo assignments for key clients including National Geographic Magazine…
Bryan Zmijewski
Bryan Zmijewski is founder and chief instigator of LuckyOliver a micropayment stock photography web site focused on building a community of designers and photographers.Bryan is a 'professional' amateur photographer, a lecturer in Stanford University's design department (his alma mater) and a dad. He started out his career at children's toy inventors Skyline (later purchased by IDEO) where he helped create…
