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Subject: [Leica] Getty Images
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 19:15:41 +0100
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Actually, Tina, you are proving Jayanand?s point. What you are describing, 
namely carving out a niche, taking advantage of the new marketing channels, 
and cutting out the middlemen, are precisely the kind of adaptations to a 
new environment that are needed to survive in the business when fundemental 
change happens.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 01 Mar 2015, at 16:55, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm still making a living with stock photography by photographing editorial
> subjects that others do not have, do not want to travel to get, don't think
> of posting, or can't get (especially with model releases).  My average
> income per sale has dropped by about half since I started in the 1980's but
> I'm also selling more than twice as much through world-wide internet
> connections that were not possible before the digital age.  My hope for the
> future is that we will be able to do away with agencies and get 100% of our
> sales through our own websites thanks to effective keywords and SEOs.
> That's on my agenda for this year.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
> gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Ted,
>> I am sorry, but that seems to be the marketplace today, however illogical
>> or awful it may sound to you. To my mind, it was inevitable, with the 
>> great
>> democratization of photographic matter that digital has wrought. By the
>> way, I have no idea of how stock sales work in detail, so I am just 
>> picking
>> up clues from the messages, and applying them to what has happened in
>> professional photography, and management culture, in general. Similar
>> income compression has been happening in a variety of professions, as the
>> hunt for the lowest cost has taken over as a prime management paradigm.
>> Eventually, in all these areas, the end customer benefits greatly through
>> lower prices. Other than weddings, medical, fashion and industrial
>> photography (there may be other niches, too, that I do not know about), I
>> cannot see any other niches where a photographer can make a decent living
>> today....
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>> 



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