Sunday, December 16, 2007

A Stock Agency With A Conscience?

Is that possible? Well, here is a contribution from one of our blog readers, Kathryn:

'Photographers Direct (http://WWW.photographersdirect.Com/) is a stock house that offers some incredible opportunities to photographers. They call it "Fair Trade Stock Photography." The photographer receives 80% of the sale price of their image!!!

What is also remarkable is Photographers Direct puts the photographer in contact with the buyer to negotiate usage fees!!! It's phenomenal to be able to establish a direct business relationship with the buyer. A win-win situation.'

Kathryn LeBoye
www.kathrynleboyephotography.com

Kathryn has not used them yet and I haven't heard of anyone who has. So if you do, please let us know. A remarkable thing about this stock agency is they seem to be on the photographer's side. What a concept!

They will not represent any photographers who sell their work to microstock agencies like istock, shutterstock and dreamstime to name a few. The reason they say is because they are the antithesis of microstock agencies who rip off naive photographers day in and day out.

So guess what? If you place your images with photographersdirect, you get to keep the copyright and you set the sale price. Is it too good to be true?

By the way, I welcome contributions to this blog. If you have some valuable information, please email with it. Thanks!

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