Passing through In Transit Images

ASPP Executive Director Jain Lemos crosses paths with visual sage Bob Hendriks, Managing Director of InTransit Images, and explains his company’s sensible trajectory. Bob Hendriks is a man in motion. And it appears he’ll keep moving upward, even if an unbalanced force tries to knock him off course. Who in this industry hasn’t felt a …


Mother Image

It’s refreshing to see boutique agencies popping up. I had an opportunity to chat with  Susan Carolonza Chanin who partnered with Rana Faure with new offering Mother Image. Tell us about your backgrounds in Stock, and how you came to identify this area as one that is sustainable and relevant? Mother Image is a boutique …


Miss the PACA 2012 International Conference?

For those of us who missed the Chicago based conference in October, do not fret! You can peruse the sessions at your leisure with your morning coffee for a small fee  thanks to PACA and ReeldealHD: http://video.pacaoffice.org/en A wide range of relevant topics with industry leaders include two  Buyer’s Panel Discussions, Industry Forecasting, Keynotes on …


Venus Stock

Venus Stock is a newcomer with a focus on the premium beauty, health and wellness market. Victoria Hulett-Gross, CEO, talked with Infozone contributor Brantlea Newbery about the collection. Small, specialty agencies have increasingly become a rarity in the time of the ‘big box’ shops. Also the economy has been so troublesome – in this climate …


A View from the Front

Visual Connections 2012 New York continued the outstanding tradition of bringing image buyers and ‘sellers’ together to meet, greet, and open the doors to the extraordinary visual possibilities that image users demand and sellers provide.  The afternoon was filled with buyers visiting image purveyors from around the world. My personal experience as a buyer has …


Celebrating All Saints Eve with the Public Domain Review

It’s Halloween (or: All Hallow’s Eve, if you want to be accurate; or Beltane, if you don’t like that version; or, frankly, whatever Witch you got on Tonight…); so, in celebration of this night of windy moors and starlit skies, here are some spooky images courtesy of The Public Domain Review. These photographs of ‘spirits’ …


Learning a new language

We are living in a world of ever-changing and advancing technology.  This can be confusing for a still image buyer because there are so many options to choose from in terms of footage formats. Melinda Hood, Archive Director at Global ImageWorks offers some guidelines: It is important to know what master format is needed by …


Its October, so it must be time for Photo Week in New York.

Photo pros are spoiled for choice next week in the Big Apple and with so much to choose from, do not let this panel presented by Visual Connections and tailored specifically for the buyer,  slip under the radar. With an unparalleled panel of leading experts in copyright, digital media law, licensing, moving and still imagery, …


“The Nine Eyes of the Google Street View”

A common plaint by photographers, evinced increasingly over the last decade, as every young girl and their grandad ‘snaps’ away on their smart phones (although there is no ‘snap,’ really, if you think about it; there’s no ‘real’ shutter mechanism and it’s an artificial construct, a vestigial remnant of an earlier time), is that everyone …


The Emerging Paradigm of Electronic Rights

The licensing of electronic rights is growing steadily and dare we say, will soon eclipse print rights. Web use, smart phones, tablets; there are so many ways to display and absorb content that the traditional may soon become ancillary. Rights-managed licensing for electronic rights is unclear and varies greatly from source to source. Trevillion Images …