Archives: January, 2008
Eyecandy RM Press Release
16th May 2008 Press Release
ecPro the Rights Managed collection by
Eyecandy Images completes Globalization phase
The newly launched Rights Managed image collection; ecPro by Eyecandy Images has successfully completed it’s first phase of development and expansion of representation and is now available to be licensed globally.
High End image magnet Veer described the collection of 6000 images as; ‘Sometimes edgy, sometimes eccentric, always striking, Eyecandy Pro rights-managed photography blinks its lens on the grit and glamour of the global village.’
The broad and diverse collection turns story lines from all walks of life into exciting stock photography.
From an Elvis Vegas Wedding, Conceptual Nudes - to Moroccan real life portraits and images portraying dusty factory workers, turning cane to candy.
Next to their partnership with Veer, their content is available worldwide locally, at Photolibrary for Australasia and the UK, Topic Photo in Korea, Other Images in Latin America, AGE in Spain,
Van Beek Images in Holland, Mauritius Images in Germany, Fennopress in Finland and many more.
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About Eyecandy Images:
Eyecandy Images is a collective of professionals producing edgy and glossy stock photography with a multicultural and luxury feel. ecPro (eyecandy Pro) is their rights managed collection of which sits comfortably alongside Eyecandy Images RF, their royalty free collection launched in 2006 and already established worldwide. Eyecandy sells their images directly and also through the right partnerships acknowledging our creativity and vision.
For more information regarding representing any of our collections please email:
General inquiries or for Direct Sales inquiries please contact us through
Press Contact
Contact: Sam Bruce
PR Manager, Badabish PR
Press Release: Eric Miller Joins Aurora
Eric Miller joins Aurora Photos as Sales Manager
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Portland, Maine – May 16,, 2008 : AURORA PHOTOS is pleased to announce that Eric Miller has been hired into the position of Sales Manager for their Rights Managed division. AURORA PHOTOS, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Portland, ME, remains one of the premier, rights managed, independent photo agencies. From Aurora’s New York City offices, Miller will oversee global RM sales.
Miller comes with ten years of experience in the Stock Photo industry, having managed sales teams at companies such as Digital Vision, IPN Stock, and most recently Image Source. The hire represents the companies drive and focus on increasing sales and raising awareness of the brand as well as the depth and breadth of its collection. Additionally, Miller hopes to draw a stronger tie between the stock side of the business with it’s assignment division, Aurora Select, offering clients a greater range of opportunity and partnership.
"I’m really excited to be working for Aurora Photos. It’s not often that you get to work for an organization that has such a unique and beautiful collection. Even in tough markets high quality collections continue to have strong appeal."
After more than a decade representing some of the best editorial images in the world, AURORA’s visually dynamic range of photography now includes contemporary lifestyle photography, as well as the world’s premiere outdoor adventure collection. All the work remains at the highest quality in today’s commercial category. In addition, AURORA’s geography and culture images continue to capture the world with diverse styles--a collection that continues to be award winning.
In addition to representing over 250 elite photographers for the commercial and editorial sectors, AURORA’s New York offices also contain SELECT, their assignment representation division which handles a unique roster of photographers who have exceptional vision and story telling skills for magazine and commercial clients.
CONTACT: Eric Miller
646 519 3533
To view Aurora Photos photography visit: http://www.auroraphotos.com/
EditorialsFeatures
The Year 2007 in Review
Looking back at 2007 in the stock photo industry, several interesting stories come to the fore. The year started with a bang when news leaked about a possible acquisition of Jupiter by Getty. That deal never happened, but several other high-profile acquisitions did take place last year, from Getty’s acquisitions of WireImage, Punchstock and Pump Audio to the purchase of Veer by Corbis. Jupiter took a break from the stock photo business buying spree of previous years but remained busy developing its events and on-line media segments which included the launch of several new trade shows and the acquisition of MediaBistro.
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BBC Motion Gallery licenses archival footage for “Charlie Wilson´s War”
The motion picture “Charlie Wilson’s War” was just released to rave reviews on December 21st. What you may not know is that the Archival footage chronicling the covert war in Afghanistan against the former Soviet Empire was stock footage licensed by BBC Motion Gallery, a division of BBC Worldwide. "Charlie Wilson´s War" (starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Mike Nichols) tells the true story of how a playboy congressman, a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history.
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Photoshot opens NYC office and takes on Elevation Photos
UK-based Photoshot opened a New York office last October and has taken on representation of the "A-list" celebrity imagery collection of Elevation Photos, an agency recently launched in Santa Monica, California. Adding Elevation to its collections gives Photoshot material more marketable in the US market. The company has also sought to add North-American rights to the many collections it represents in the UK. Kris Hook, a ten-year veteran of Corbis Images, will run Photoshot’s New York office.
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Mary Evans now representing Illustrated London News Picture Library
Mary Evans Picture Library, a specialist library of historical images, has announced that it has penned an exclusive deal to house and manage The Illustrated London News Picture Library. The Illustrated London News, launched by Herbert Ingram in 1842, was the world's first illustrated newspaper and is an unequalled visual document of the past 160 years. The archive also consists of eight other titles: The Graphic, The Sphere, The Sketch, The Bystander, The Tatler, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, The Illustrated War News, and Britannia and Eve.
Features
Book Review: The Polaroids by André Kertész
The Polaroids by André KertészW. W. Norton, November 2007
128 pages/hardcover/80 photographs/$35.00
The beautiful, bittersweet images in The Polaroids illustrate never-before-seen expressions of the amazing André Kertész (1894-1985). Mirroring his life and work, this little book is strong and sensitive, gripping and groundbreaking. Moreover, the unparalleled instant medium of Polaroid proves a fitting key to further understanding Kertész’s artistic intellect throughout his seventy-three year career.
News
Getty gets political with 2008 campaign microsite
Getty Images has set up a microsite dedicated entirely to this year’s election campaigns. The site offers editorial imagery of the on-going campaigns, creative stock imagery representing political issues, (e.g., education, poverty, the war in Iraq, healthcare and labor,) assignment services, footage and music. Getty created the site not only to meet the seasonal demand for campaign images from news organizations, but also to offer candidates, consultants and activists relevant up-to-date content to help them keep up with the high-pressure deadlines of today’s rapidly evolving campaigns.
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Beata Chelette to leave Corbis. Edie Tobias to take over Entertainment Division
Beate Chelette, the founder of the Beateworks, a boutique agency that specialized in architecture, interior design and celebrity homes, will leave the post she has held since Corbis bought her company in March, 2006. After the sale to Corbis, the company appointed Chelette to the position of Senior Director of Photography, Entertainment. Edie Tobias, a veteran of the stock photo industry who most recently worked for Jupiter Images, will take over for Chelette effective immediately.
Features
Mr. Stock Smarty Pants offers new year’s resolutions for stock photographers
Dear Mr. Stock Smarty Pants:
It being the New Year and all, I was wondering if there are any resolutions that you think a stock photographer should make. Also, it would be helpful if you have any hints on how to stick to those resolutions, because I’m really not very good at that (last year I resolved to lose 30 pounds but only managed to get rid of five, and that was for just two weeks).
Sincerely,
Rick
Buffalo NY
News
Digital Railroad restructures, lays-off 25
Digital Railroad (DRR,) an on-line image archiving service for photographers and agencies, has announced a restructuring plan that has resulted in the termination of approximately half of the company’s staff. According to Mark Ippolito, the company’s VP of Sales, the move marks a change in the main priority of the company from recruiting image providers to use the service to licensing images through its recently launched Marketplace web-site.
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Dreamstime offers useful new keyword tool for contributors
The micro-stock company, Dreamstime, has created a new resource to help photographers understand better how their images are found by those who go purchase them. The company calls the tool, which is unique to Dreamstime and deceptively simple, “words that work.” It allows the contributor to see the specific keywords used by a purchaser to find the image they went on to buy. While often times the keyword is obvious, in many cases the words offer a different perspective on an image that might not have occurred to the contributor, which can provide helpful guidance to shooting and keywording on future productions.
Editorials
Editorial: Christina Vaughan sees the glass half full
Over the holidays, we reported that Image Source (IS) had entered the mid-stock market through collaboration with the micro-stock company Fotolia. In the course of correspondence with Image Source about the issue, CEO Christina Vaughan sent the following letter in which she offers cause for optimism in an industry where much of the recent news has had a decidedly pessimistic slant. Ms. Vaughan kindly agreed to have the letter published here in our editorial column.
News
Masterfile appoints Lisa Dempsey as Director of Client Services
The Toronto based stock photo agency, Masterfile, has announced that it has appointed Lisa Dempsey to be its new Director of Client Services responsible for the territiores of the United States and Canada. Dempsey has accepted the new position in Toronto where she will operate as the primary interface between Masterfile’s Sales and Business Development teams in order to develop new sales strategies.
Features
Alamy CEO James West outlines plan for the future
Alamy has posted a few videos from a contributor event held in November outlining the agency's plans for the future.
Part 1: James West, CEO
News
xcavator.net database approaches 6 million images
The image and video search technology company, CogniSign, has created the portal called xcavator.net to show-case its novel visual search technology. By partnering with several micro-stock companies and two rights-managed agencies, xcavator.net has built an image database of over 5.8 million images. The company hopes to have 10 million images on its site within the next few months.
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Blend now offering stock images with Rights-Ready licensing model
In August 2006 Getty Images launched a new image licensing model called Rights Ready (RR) promising to offer customers the benefits of Rights-Managed (RM) licensing along with the ease of use associated with a Royalty-Free (RF) license. To accomplish this images are offered with fixed price points designated according to basic commercial, internal company, and editorial use categories. Blend Images has announced that it will now offer part of its collection under the RR model available co-exclusively from Blendimages.com and Gettyimages.com making Blend Images the first photo agency to directly adopt the licensing model.
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Germany’s PantherMedia launches international mid-stock platform
In 2004, Munich-based PantherMedia.net, a German-language web-site, began licensing royalty-free (RF) imagery at so-called mid-stock pricing levels. Mid-stock refers to RF pricing that falls somewhere in between the very low prices offered on micro-stock sites and the higher prices of what we now refer to as “traditional” RF. Several RF companies, both micro and traditional, have tested out the mid-stock market. With the recent launch of an international English-language version of its site, PantherMedia becomes the first business to market itself solely on the mid-stock pricing model.
Features
Book Review: Living Proof by David Alan Harvey
Living Proof by David Alan Harvey
powerHouse Books, December 2007
112 pages/hardcover/52 photographs/$29.95
“Skip the pictures and go straight to the last page...read Uptown’s poem,” advises David Alan Harvey on perusing his latest book, Living Proof. Missing any of Harvey’s images is never recommended, even if he says so himself. Harvey gives us the impression that the cavern between the cryptically thunderous lyrics of a rising hip hop artist and the expert visual storytelling of a super-pro photojournalist is a gap too immense to bridge. Isn’t that unthinkable for someone as fly as Harvey?
News
Fujifilm sponsors Rainforest Alliance photography contest
Fujifilm Corporation (NASDAQ:FUJI) has announced that it is sponsorsing of the first annual 'Picture Sustainability Photo Contest' in conjunction with the Rainforest Alliance, an international nonprofit conservation organization. US residents are invited to submit photos illustrating sustainable agriculture, forestry and tourism.
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Photoshot has acquired underwater photography specialist library Oceans-Image
The London based stock photo agency, Photoshot has announced that it has acquired Oceans-Image, a specialty library focused on underwater photography including the works of Charles Hood and Donald Tipton, Douglas David Seifert and many other A-list underwater photographers.
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NY Times reporting Getty Images may be up for sale
The New York Times has reported today that Getty images has put itself up for sale, having hired the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs to advise it on such a transaction. According to the article, the purchase price might reach $1.5BB, which comes in a less than two times projected revenue for 2007 of about $850MM and about twelve times projected net revenue of approximately $125MM an devalues the company at about $25 per share. The company’s stock closed at $21.94 on Friday, January 18.
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Getty Images confirms that it is exploring strategic alternatives
In response to rumors circulating the industry including an article published by the New York Times, Getty Images has issued a press release confirming that “its Board of Directors is exploring strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value”. And the company “has retained Goldman, Sachs & Co. as its financial advisor and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as its legal advisor in connection with its evaluation of such alternatives”.
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Jupiter appoints Ellen Herbert to post as Senior Director of Creative Content
Jupiterimages, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), has announced that photo industry veteran Ellen Herbert has been promoted to Senior Director, Creative Content. Ellen joined Jupiterimages in January of 2006 and previously led creative for the FoodPix brand. In this new role she will lead the West Coast office of Jupiterimages for content creation and photographer affiliations.
News
Thought Equity Motion offers faster and cheaper method for online video ad production
Seeing fast growth in the market for on-line video advertising, Thought Equity Motion (TEM) has created a collection of video clips covering related themes to allow for faster and less expensive production of video ads for on-line distribution. TEM’s Storyline Collection covers topics such as politics, health and medicine, small business, seniors and real estate. Clips feature the same models at various stages in a series of related events, allowing creative directors to weave complete stories with beginning and ending scenes that relate to each other visually.
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Newscom now offering broadcast quality news footage from Reuters
Newscom, a leading provider of text and visual content, has announced that it is now offering its subscribers online access to broadcast quality video from the international news agency Reuters making this the first major news agency to offer broadcast quality breaking news footage online in the U.S.
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Library of Congress taps into Flickr community to tag vintage images
The library of Congress is participating in the launch of a Flickr initiative dubbed "The Commons" where it has posted 3,115 vintage images Including shots of early 20th century baseball players to 1940s-era images of horse-drawn carts and factory workers. The images have been posted in an effort to solicit help from the Flickr community in tagging the works in order to bring new context to the collection.
Editorials
Editorial: Pure speculation on the sale of Getty Images
Since the news broke earlier this week about Getty hiring Goldman Sachs to explore “strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value,” many colleagues and friends in the industry have asked what it all means. In response, I offer the following with the caveat that while the comments all make perfect sense (to me, at least,) much of what follows is pure speculation:
Features
Mr. Stock Smarty Pants tackles pro-sports photography
Dear Mr. Stock Smarty Pants:
Hey, I was watching the NFL playoff games and started wondering what the market is like for pictures from professional sporting events. I sometimes take my camera along to Dodger games and get some pretty good shots with my telephoto lenses. Think I could sell some of them? Also, what do photographers do to stay warm in places like New England and Green Bay? It looks awful.
Sincerely yours,
Al in Los Angeles
Editorials
Editorial: Slicing and dicing the numbers at Alamy
For several years, Alamy has published a fascinating set of quarterly statistics about the growth and composition of its archive and percentage break-downs of sales components. Details provided in the quarterly reports include numbers of new RF and RM images added to the archive, numbers of images contributed by photographers vs. agencies, average license fees for RM and RF images, and percentages of revenue derived from RM vs. RF licenses. The company’s decision in the third quarter of last year to also make public its actual revenue figures provides an opportunity to analyze its performance in a deeper way and raise questions about the trajectory the combined figures imply.
News
Masterfile signs OnAsia Images as exclusive distributor for Thailand
The Toronto based stock agency Masterfile has announced that it has penned a deal with OnAsia Images in Bangkok to be the exclusive distributor of the Masterfile Collection in Thailand. Masterfile states that representation in Thailand is part of an over-all strategy to develop channel sales in fast growing markets in South East Asia. The new partnership gives Thai clients a direct contact in Thailand for the first time.
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News Brief: Image Source named one of Britain’s Top Employers
The London-based RF producer Image Source has received the distinction of being named among Great Britain’s best places to work. The list is compiled by CRF, an independent organization that aims to identify objectively the companies that, through dedication and innovation, have managed to create a culture that embodies an outstanding working environment in which the employee is appreciated and productive.
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News Brief: Canada’s maXx images launches new web-site with 3MM images
The Vancouver-based stock photo agency, maXx images has recently announced the launch of its new website. The company has implemented full e-commerce into the new site and now offers over 3 million royalty free and rights managed images. Offerings on the new site also include subscriptions and stock footage.
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Pepper Stark appoints Simon Woodthorpe as Director of Business Development & Channel Management
Pepper Stark, a stock photo industry consultancy, has announced the appointment of industry veteran Simon Woodthorpe to the post of Director of Business Development & Channel Management. Simon brings more than 15 years in international media sales and business development, including five years building and managing an international distribution network for Image Source, one of the world’s leading RF agencies.
