Toronto-based Masterfile will now distribute over 300,000 Alaska Stock images, including 17,000 rights-managed stills. Alaska Stock sells direct through its own Web site and distributes via an international network. Masterfile currently maintains offices in Dusseldorf, Paris, Milan and London.
With new digital technologies, how old do you have to be to become a professional photographer? Not even 10, according to one experience.
New Hampshire-based iSyndica, an automation service that allows photo and video producers to batch-upload content to multiple stock-selling and photo-sharing Web sites, has launched two service enhancements: a separate iSyndica Illustrations platform and access to all of iSyndica from six popular social sites.
As prices for stock photo uses drop, the joke has been that pretty soon, publishers will start asking photographers to pay for publication of pictures. That idea may not be as ludicrous as it sounds.