Been Leaning In for Awhile

Earlier this week, Getty and Leanin.org announced a partnership whereby Getty donates 10% of license fees to LeanIn.org from sales of this collection: This got us thinking and we wondered about sources of imagery of women, so we compiled a list of resources that we know of and use. When looking for dynamic and diverse …


Motion is Not Just a Mode on Your Camera

Photographer/Filmmaker Gail Mooney on motion: The convergence of still imagery and video continues at a rapid pace. Technology has transformed how we create, sell and consume visual content.  The distribution of imagery is digital, global and instantaneous.  What’s driving this? Still photographers are using cameras capable of shooting video and are creating content in both …


Source of Inspiration

We all tend to re-visit certain books  movies over and over as they inspire and reinforce something essential for us. Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” and John Sayle’s “The Secret of Roan Inish” are on my list. Joseph Gamble does the same with photo books and shares his top five: There are many great photography books …


Shestock – Real Images, Real Life, Real Women

Sometimes responding to LinkedIn invitations result in delightful discoveries. That is how I met Karen Beard and learned of her new agency, SheStock. She took time from her launch for a brief Q&A and look at some of the  wonderful work of some of her contributing photographers. What was the defining moment that inspired the …


A Little Perspective

reposted from http://fstoppers.com, with permission from Joseph Gamble NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has relayed back images of the Earth and moon from 900 million miles away. The images, taken in a series of photos on July 19th as Saturn was backlit by the sun, portray the blue planet as a diminutive blip in a vast dark …


An Angel’s Dream: Native Stock Pictures Touches New Horizons

Guest post by Jain Lemos For Angel Wynn, moving from Sun Valley, Idaho to Santa Fe, New Mexico opened up doors of abundance for her art and agency. Walking into Angel Wynn’s studio home on Canyon Drive in Santa Fe, the air seems to shift and all of a sudden, you are transported into a …


Jon Crispins’ Willard Suitcase Project

Photographer Jon Crispin first saw the abandoned Willard Asylum in the early ‘80s. Abandoned and boarded up, it appealed to his lifelong compulsion for “entering places where I shouldn’t have been.” This compulsion led to a two-year project funded by the New York State Council for Arts to photograph 19th Century New York State Asylums: …


Go East, Young Man!

For some time, we have all wondered about the opportunities that might exist in the expanding market of China; in 2010, photographer Shannon Fagan took that leap of faith, beyond just idle speculation, and relocated from New York City into the heart of Beijing’s historic DongCheng District. It seems to have been a gamble that …


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 …


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 …