Stock Photo Agencies

another good one in the aerials dept is Landslides
http://www.landslides.com/

I was wondering what any buyers or photographers think of Photo Shelter, as well as it’s collection section. I’m not to familiar with the stock market. I was kind of surprised were APE placed it until I compared it to others.

a great one for photographer’s groups: naturephotographers.net

http://www.wonderfulmachine.com is a good one.

pixintl.com has a nice variety of entertainment based out of Chicago.
I use to be a photo researcher(1982-90 and then again in 2006) and bought alot of material from them based on the fact that–being in a different region than LA or NYC the photos didn’t look the same and they had alot of subjects that the big guys didn’t bother covering.

kiki

Sorry for the plug of my own company…I have to at least mention it: http://www.tidalstock.com

We are a very small ocean, water and life, stock photography company. We are in the process of building an all new website and hope to be launching it in the near future!

Thanks
Ryan Cardone

#32–Jesse: I have stuff on photoshelter’s stock site and so far I am really liking what they are doing.

Just to fill in some missing links, these are more features than stock, but if Magnum,VII and Noor are up…..

…………….. http://www.agencevu.com

Collectives: http://www.tendancefloue.net
http://www.oeilpublic.com
http://www.oculi.com.au

No sweeteners added.

http://www.luckypix.com

#15 – I’m pretty sure Lonely Planet Images was purchased some time ago by BBC – so no longer linked to Lonely Planet Publishing.

#32 – I actually sent PE an email asking the same question – no response (fair enough!), but I too was surprised to see it in the first list. Still interested in knowing what the PE thinks.

Impressive resource I should say!

Biased as it could be as I work for them: GraziaNeri Agency (www.grazianeri.com)

but to balance I’ll give also the direct competitor in Italy : Contrasto (www.contrasto.it) that have great work too.

and it’s really nice to have an insight of the work of the photo editor!

Thanks Rob for putting us on the list….
best,
Ryan Cardone
Tidalstock.com

Thanks for the list

Take a look at http://www.PhotoStock-Israel.com a young and dynamic photographers cooperation representing 40 of Israel’s fines.
http://www.PhotoStock-Israel.com covers Israel, Judaism Christianity and almost any other image you may need

I don’t use RF or images without captions so no need to drop their link here. My crap list is full. RF may be fine for some uses but it’s worthless in national editorial.

Mike Watson’s http://www.moodboard.com/

Polaris Images is more than a news photo agency, they are heavy into features and long-term documentary stories.

if you think getty is like walmart why is photoshelter hiring getty people? maybe photoshelter wants to be like walmart?

SuperStock and Photo Researchers do not belong on your “More General, Not So Good” lists. Both of those sources have come up with a lot of winners for me. Also “PhotoTakeUSA” belongs on a science/ medical list with Photo Researchers.

You should work in educational publishing – now there’s where you get the impossible, “You must be Fing kidding me,” type of spec requests.

I see AP and Reuters.. Any reason for not including AFP?

im a brazilian photographer so for Brazil see:

http://www.sambaphoto.com

Cheers!!

http://www.arcangel-images.com
Some interesting stuff and certainly ‘off the beaten track’

this made my week!

We also use Rex Features consistently….

News & Features:
http://www.aliseipress.com

Glad this list is here. I just licensed an array of 1980s rock and roll gems for a compilation book I am editing. I found images at http://www.pixintl.com that I could not find at the bigger agencies and unlike some of the big agencies they were very easy to deal with.

What about Age Fotostock? Anyone like them – as a buyer or as a photographer?

HI Rob,

I think you could do with some extra film archives.

http://www.defd.de
http://www.photo12.com
https://stills.bfi.org.uk/
http://www.rgapix.com
http://www.picture-desk.com
http://www.album-online.com
http://www.moviestore.com
http://www.allstarpl.com
http://www.eyevine.com

Cheers

Tom

Hi Rob,

I think you missed Imaginechina which has the best chinese service for media and editors in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Their main service is in Chinese, news and stock, they also have a smaller service in english for foreign editors.

Best,

Jian Ru

Art Section – Photoservice Electa
http://photoservice.electaweb.it

We started an agency with medical 3d Illustrations

“Noni wrote:

What about Age Fotostock? Anyone like them – as a buyer or as a photographer?”

I’m a photographer, and have been with Robert Harding in a previous life. Now I’m with Age, as well as having my own stock site and am looking for a stock library for my newer, more creative, abstract, moody stuff that doesn’t suit Age at all.

My experience with Age is that they’re seriously slow to get new work assessed and uploaded. Maybe there’s activity going on that I as a photographer can’t see, but …

So what about from a buyers point of view, anyone?

Girts

http://yaymicro.com

You can visit oru new photo stock from Spain

Stockxpert.com? No?

I found PhotoEdit to be careless with handling my submission that was sent at my expense by FEDEX and signed for by them. They were very very rude and inconsiderate. I would not waste any time dealing with them.
Photog with camera

News:

http://scoopt.com/
http://antarafoto.com/dom/

Australia? Any Australia based photo agencies out there? Thanks

Assigment photographer for those of you who are looking to create original images at times when stock is just not right.
Located in Hollywood, FL
http://www.alfredogugig.com

SnapVillage is an awesome site for contributor – check us out!

You can check this stock photo agency too, http://www.imagecrea.com/

For the sake of completeness, I would add Fotolibra to the list. Small independently run out of UK. From my experience with them (over a year), they have more minuses than pluses. Especially for US based photographers as the conversion rate kills you for commissions (not to mention the lack of electronic transfers, so you also get hit with a fee from your bank).

A directors personal collection gathered over 40 years.

Hello,

Ever heard of my website, maybe you could list me as a specialized stock website, I offer family snapshots and other retro images of the 20th century.

greetz from a warm and moist Amsterdam
Edwin Molenaar
manager http://www.retrostock.nl

i thought Inmagine and Image Source were also big ones ?

Where is Galen Rowell’s Mountain Light agency? Also, PhotoEdit is up there with The Image Works in terms of agencies that target the textbook market.

Hi,

again, a great list … thanks !

I just was searching the www (in other words: google) looking for some additional stock agencies to host my images …

I did contact some of the ‘Boutique Style’ (I like this term very much *smile) agencies and Gallery Stock did reply immediately …
Now I’m with ’em …

I just like to show that the list does work for ‘real life’ situations as well and your effort in establishing it did pay off … at least for me :-)))

btw, to give something back … I guess http://www.worldofstock.com is worth a look (‘more general’ section) … it’s similar to AcclaimImages

best, Reini

Try: http://www.imagesofwomen.com – amazing.

Hi,

Two sources that probably deserve a mention here are http://www.TopFoto.co.uk – who have a large historical archive, plus lots of contemporary stock like UK Royal Rota pics, plus feeds from several other large agencies and cheap prices.

Another is http://www.Fotegrafik.com – which is an Asia only archive offering high quality stock photos both RM and RF.

You can find a lot of my pictures from Nepal and more on both web sites.

There is also my personal archive Lightroom Photos – http://lightroom.momapix.com/ – which has several thousand stock images and a large collection of space, science, reportage and Antartica stock photos.

Also, I find that since its difficult to find ethnically diverse images there is http:/www.dkstock.com for general stock of people of ethnicity.

Thanks for the list.

We should include Scanpix.com (Scandinavian’s biggest picture distributor) at http://www.scanpix.com and specialist picture libraries like Biofoto:, now under the umbrella of Scanpix, see http://www.scanpix.dk/xl/publ/index.cgi?lang=dkbio

And let me add, that AgeFotostock at http://www.agefotostock.com should be moved to the top category of ‘General Stock Photo Agencies’ if you are not too embedded in an US perspective.
Best
Soren Breiting, Stock Photo News

What about Danita Delimont…anybody have any experience with them buying or selling? or Firstlight?

Trigger Image is a new library concentrating on individually selected creative imagery for clients in advertising, design and publishing. All our imagery is available online and we’re always looking for new contributors and new clients.

Thanks
Tim

Check out Photo Stock Source – http://www.photostocksource.com
This guy has been around and his website is full featured.

Putting all micros into the same ‘crap’ category is kinda amusing, but misses the point. In the past three years, more than a third of my income came from places like shutterstock, dreamsimages, etc. Yeah, these are aimed at a particular clientele, but there is income to be made here (and a nice one, too).

Does anyone know of any good photographers or stock sites for interiors? Specifically “zen” interiors with that are modern and clean-looking?

great list!!!!

also find http://www.onimage.co.uk/do/onimage/

thanks
luis

I have a burning question I can’t seem to find the answer to, if anyone can help I’d be much appreciative. I write a fashion blog, and I’d like to know how and where I can buy runway fashion images and celebrity red carpet looks to post on my blog, but at low prices because I can’t afford Getty images :)
Thank you!

Could somebody write me the name of photo agency that sells photos of celebrities homes and other interiors design photos?

Thx

Istockphoto.com, the best place to get fantastic images for a good price! Crap, that’s alittle short minded.

I’m curious – now that the PhotoShelter Collection no longer exists, doesn’t its group of “Personal Archives” deserve a listing under “Photographers Groups”? Work of the entire collection of photographers is available via a global search.

Jupiter got gobbled by Getty. Sad.

Hi, I suggest http://www.fotonline.com, it’s a new and small agency, nice design and good management, all entertainment images, music, cinema & theatre, sports, celebs, and more. For Barcelona, Spain.
Thanks!

From myself i may add a site with some free collections: http://co-photo.com

And an other list of websites:
http://designbeginshere.com

For celebrity images you can add:

Gamma.fr
Belga.be
BrunoPress
H&K.fr
Globe Photos

How do I get a share of the assignment photography work in North America?

Do I have to specialize in something?

agence vu?
marca?
noor ?

I didn’t see a category for food photography, which is my area of expertise. I have been offered a contract from Stock Food, but was troubled not to have seen them listed here. Do you have any recommendations for stock photo companies representing food?

Great stuff guys

has anyone heard of absolute photo?
they accepted me but I have no way of knowing if they accept everyone. they are not on this list .
Lisa

I offer free stock photos of nature, travel, and animals at Paul Bates Photography

It’s updated constantly with the full resolution images.

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Miami stock photo and video footage at
http://www.305stockphoto.com

Here is another one for your list under botique agencies-
http://www.obscuraphotos.com

It is a new Australian based documentary agency.

Ciao! ma voi conoscete seriamente un sistema per guadagnare online? Grazie

You have missed Fine-Art-Images (www.fine-art-images.net) one of the largest online art libraries. Therу are a lot of Russian and world art masterpieces.

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also quite good:
http://www.onlinestockfotos.nl
Photos from Holland, Western-Europe.

I generally counsel designers to avoid the stock photo agency websites as much as possible. This is for various reasons, but mainly because finding a photo/image in these libraries has become like finding a needle in a haystack. Show me a library of 12 million images, and I will show you a library with 11 million bad images. There is a lot of “keyword stuffing” there too, which makes search results rather frightening.

The biggest reason to avoid the agencies is the various license restrictions which govern each image. What you see is often not what you get.

Most independent photographer sites these days offer images at prices below the agency, have much more manageable libraries to search, and have straight forward licensing. That way you don’t get hit with an extra license charge if your print run goes larger than expected. And if you have a question about an image, you can actually talk to the photographer who took the image.

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Here’s one more to add to the list:

Arena Creative Stock Imagery
http://www.arenacreative.com/

A collection of about 7000+ unique royalty free stock art photos and vector graphics.

A new stock agency focusing on upstate New York images is http://ithacastock.com/

Worth a look for those producing in the region.

You might want to add to your stock agencies list http://www.oseeris.com. You can search more than 400 agencies instantly including all the majors.
I think it’s going to be the new way to search for stock photos.

Hi! Could anyone recommend a good resource to look for images on detroit music history? 70-90th. clubs, personalities etc. Thanks!

hello
historical and rare images – greataster.com
free for web-design

hmmm, too much choice!
Maybe you can split the list into one that photo editors like and one that photographers like to submit to. Or just one with companies bought by Getty and one with the rest :)

So far I license my images directly through http://ExposedPlanet.com but will investigate your list to explore better ways.
Cheers, Harry

Hi, I have an online library specialising in Australia (around 10,000 images) and New Zealand (around 20,000 images).

Could you please add us to your list.

Thanks, David

Rob:
My offering is an alternative to photography but none-the-less I sometimes get requests for my cartoons for use in books and other print materials. It’s great to be linked in with so many cool picture sites and keep up your excellent work….everyone.

Best,

Dan Rosandich
Cartoons For Books and more

Image Source

They are a great independent photo library based in London and have both RF and RM licences.

http://www.imagesource.com

and a new blog (though yet to have an opinion on it) at http://blog.imagesource.com

so useful, thank you!

http://www.fedephoto.com

A large group of freelance photographers, mostly based in France. News / Features / Portrait… , a lot of variety. You can download Hi-Res pics (if you are logged) just like any agency website. Just have a look!

You should you look at Kimball Stock – http://www.kimballstock.com – for animals and automobiles.

Here’s one you should add:

http://www.demotix.com/

Demotix is for independent photojournalists around the world and often publishes things that are missed/blocked by mainstream media sources.

Cheers, Jeanette

Thank you for this wonderful collection.
Highly Recommended.

Hey there,
Thanks for the list!
I’d also like to recommend the SXC / Stockxpert founders’ new stock photo agency:
http://stockfresh.com
See ya,
Steve

My girlfriend is a really talented food photographer and was thinking of submitting some of her stock images to an agency for a little extra cash flow, why not? She has been offered a 3 year contract by Stock Food. She is very happy about it. I’m a little skeptical because they won’t even give a hint as to what she may earn. $100 a month or $5000 a month? Do you have any idea what a good photographer earns on that site? Is there a better way to go or should she just blindly sign on and see what happens? Thanks, Cory

Thank you for this awesome connection.

May I also recommend a brand new agency for royalty free stock photography, illustration and art:

http://allyoucanstock.com

Thank you,
Zsolt