Category: Features
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Interview with travel and lifestyle photographer Chris Villano
We are happy to welcome back travel and lifestyle photographer Christopher Villano. Chris Villano. Chris was our very first interview over a year ago. Chris stays on the road, so we are grateful to have a little more time with him.
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Interview with photographer and filmmaker Peter Ruprecht
Peter Ruprecht is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker and is currently in charge of Digital Strategy at WDDG, a leading Interactive Media Agency. Before joining WDDG, Peter was Vice President of Interactive and New Media for the global lifestyle and fashion company Marc Ecko Enterprises. In 2004, Peter co-founded Forza Films, a South American documentary production company that has produced work for leading networks. Peter has also had a long-standing career consulting companies of stature, including Merrill Lynch, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Opera Solutions. Born in Argentina, Peter was raised in Vermont and attended Dartmouth College. He was ranked as a top skier in the United States and has traveled the world extensively.
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Trends in Stock Licensing: Visual Search
In the midst of an economic downturn that’s clearly having a dramatic impact on our industry, I think it’s an interesting time to think about how a few emerging technologies, combined with the ongoing shift from print advertising to Web-based advertising, might affect stock licensing in the coming months:
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Interview with freelance photographer and cultural journalist Sara Lesch
We are pleased to have with us, all the way from Sweden, photographer, Sara Lesch who describes herself as a photographer and a freelance cultural journalist. A native of Santiago Chile who studied at the International Center of Photography in NYC, and Gothenburg University in Sweden, Lesch served as co-editor of the cultural art magazine Presens and also worked with other cultural magazines like Glänta. Her photography has often dealt with investigations about heritage and the creation of the self. Sara Lesch is currently working as project leader for international youth work in the City of Molndal and lives in Gothenburg in the west of Sweden.
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Interview with NYC photographer Glenn Glasser
Introducing photographer, Glenn Glasser. When asked to describe himself Glenn issued the following statement “i always wait for others to get off the subway car before entering - - my grandparents introduced me to moby by buying me ‘play’ - - in grade school we got a day off for the first day of deer hunting and trout seasons - - i will travel anywhere on a rumor of good sweetbreads,” and he also just happens to be a professional photographer with his own unique sense of style. Read on to get an idea of what Glenn is all about.
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Interview with advertising & editorial photographer Garfield Hall
Garfield Hall is an advertising and editorial photographer who works from his studio in Jersey City, New Jersey. His client base ranges from pharmaceuticals to ad and design agencies. Garfield believes that through his photography he is able to express who he is, which keeps him excited and interested in his work. Let’s give a warm welcome to photographer, Garfield Hall (applause). We know you’re busy and working hard, so let’s not waste anymore time.
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Mr. Stock Smarty Pants, what sort of stock photography should I be producing?
I’d be the first to admit that melancholy, sentimentality and jingoistic patriotism are emotions that Mr. Stock Smarty Pants rarely indulges in. However, the inauguration of Barrack Obama in Washington, D.C. a few weeks actually did get MSSP all choked up, mainly because he realized that he had missed out on a terrific opportunity to flog his patented “I Saw The Barrack Star!” T-shirts to a throng of several million potential customers scattered in and around the city many locals like to think of as Murder USA. Damn: another blown opportunity! So, in an act of unselfish generosity, as he wallows in the throes of self-loathing over the pile of cash he failed to rake in from the tchotchke-seekers, MSSP has selected this e-mail from an almost equally forlorn photographer who, like Mr. Stock Smarty Pants, just wants a chance to succeed in life.
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Corbis closing SnapVillage offering micro-stock under Veer brand
Corbis has announced that it has decided to do away with SnapVillage by the end of this year and move its micro-stock offering onto Veer.com under the name Veer Marketplace. That the company has decided to shut down the seemingly ill-fated SnapVillage comes as no surprise. By all appearances, the site has made no dent in the micro-stock sector, where Getty’s more dynamic iStockphoto dominates and several other brands – Dreamstime, Fotolia, and Shutterstock – are the presumed runners up.
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Interview with lifestyle photographer Jay Reilly
Recently we caught up with Jay Reilly, a commercial, advertising, editorial, stock photographer based in Oceanside, CA (in between San Diego and LA). Jay primarily shoots lifestyle imagery and some of his past clients include Nike, Sony, Hyatt, Conde Nast among many others. Jay Reilly has been kind enough to take some time out of his schedule tell us a bit about his life and his work as a professional photographer.
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Interview with photographer and ephotos founder Chi Modu
As a new feature for abouttheimage readers, ephotos.com has agreed to publish regular interviews with commercial, editorial, and documentary photographers. The mission is to give fans of photography, amateur photographers, and professionals, a view from the field. Photographers are behind the camera, so we want to shine a little light on the people that open up windows to the world for the masses. They all have interesting stories to tell about their experiences. The first such interview was conducted by the ephotos staff with its founder and world renowned photographer Chi Modu. Let’s not waste any time and get right to it.
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Trunk Archive brings the world of fashion to stock licensing
Trunk archive is a relatively new stock licensing with a slightly different approach. Hailing from New York City, the company appears to have carved out a niche by consolidating the work of top fashion, beauty, interior and lifestyle photographers. “The artists we represent are the premier advertising, celebrity, editorial and fashion photographers. For example, we represent the archives of Inez Van Lamsweerde + Vinodh Matadin, Pamela Hanson, Raymond Meier, Mary Ellen Mark, Peggy Sirota Walter Chin and Max Vadukul, amongst many others” stated Matthew Moneypeny, CEO of Trunk Archive.
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JupiterImages responds to allegations of shaving commissions in Europe
Recently Stefan Hartmann, a journalist with years of experience covering the stock photo industry, published an article entitled ”JupiterImages accused of shaving commissions in Europe” a piece that was excerpted from an original story published in the German trade publication Visuell. In this story the author highlighted the matter of Service Fees charged clients licensing rights-managed (RM) images from Jupiter’s German and French offices, and whether such fees have been legitimately charged over and above the license fees, resulting in unfairly reducing the commissions owed to the contributors. Since publishing this article on December 18 many readers have responded with follow-up comments including two comments from Jupiter management. In fairness to Jupiter, and to allow our readers a complete and unbiased view, we have published their original comments in their entirety and subsequent follow-up questions and answers from Jupiter Management.
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Mr. Stock Smarty Pants weighs the merits of content vs. distribution for stock photographers
Finally, it’s here: a new year…a new outlook…a new President…a new opportunity to apply to Congress for a bailout! Yes, I can reveal to you, my loyal readers and confidantes, that Mr. Stock Smarty Pants invested considerable time and energy over the holidays figuring out just the right angle to use in applying for his own, personal “bridge loan.” And, unlike Sarah Palin’s bridge-to-nowhere, this bridge is going to carry MSSP right into a brand new condo in Aruba! And hey, why not? Why are a bunch of overpaid idiots who have run The Big Three right into the ground more deserving of millions of dollars from the public trough than a fellow like me who has unselfishly devoted his life to helping photographers around the world figure out how to cash in on their photos? OK, OK…maybe I haven’t devoted my whole life to that endeavor…maybe it’s been more like a half hour every few weeks…still, I think it’s my constitutionally-granted right to get my own little stimulus package (though I must admit that I normally prefer to get my stimulus from my buddy Hugh Hefner’s overflow). But, as always, I have a back-up plan: if the bailout scheme falls through, I just might embark on a whole new career…politics! Can you say: SENATOR Stock Smarty Pants of Illinois? Well, enough about me, and on to your trivial little problems…
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Mr. Stock Smarty Pants discusses stock photography in the winter season
As the song says: Baaay-beeee, it’s c-o-l-d outside.
However, I’m sure you’ll be pleased to know that’s it’s a cozy 75 degrees inside Mr. Stock Smarty Pants’ Aspen retreat, with a roaring fire blazing just a few feet away while I recline in my La-Z-Boy and sort through the latest pleas for help from readers of About The Image. I’m tempted to knock back my third toddy of the evening but realize that I need to keep at least a somewhat clear head in order to provide the thoroughly professional level of expertise that’s required for this sort of work. Plus, I really detest getting on the ski lift in the morning and then flying down a double-diamond run with a throbbing head, so let’s just get right to it, shall we?
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Book Review: The Life of a Photograph by Sam Abell
The Life of a Photograph by Sam Abell
National Geographic Focal Point (October 21, 2008)
208 pages/hardcover/200 photographs/$40.00
Sam Abell’s purpose permeates all the way through the weighty pages of his latest book, The Life of a Photograph. Abell provides an important insight to his success: He instinctively and deliberately makes photographs, he does not take them. Abell’s definition of the life of a photograph is all about the progression of a scene. He has trained himself so deeply in this practice that at the end of the day, individual images matter less than staying true to his formula for making them.
