PAGE 2 - Interviewing Photographers, CEO's of stock agencies, industry pundits and others.

You have a long history in the photography business. Can you share with us some highlights of your photography career? I founded a company called nonstock with Janou Pakter, who was also my co-partner in Janou Pakter, Inc., a prestigious, worldwide recruitment agency based in New York. Our involvement with worldwide design and advertising agencies, as well as with photographers, was the catalyst for the creation of nonstock.
 

Artists look to Cafepress.com to help them earn from their art. In the following interview Angela Low, Marketing Program Manager for Cafepress.com, helps artists learn the business of Cafepress.com."
 

Jonathan Ross and his Wife Amy Anderson have risen to the top of the photography world as leaders in the stock photo industry. Prolific producers of stock stills and motion, they are also founding members of Blend Images. They freely share a wealth of information about their experience in the industry. Now they have embarked on yet another new venture, a new stock agency: Spaces Images.
 

Friend and fellow photographer Shannon Fagan recently relocated from New York to China. Shannon is one of those people that are referred to as "thought leaders" and has been very active in the photography world. He is a past president of the Stock Artists Alliance, and has had leadership roles in the American Photographic Artists, the American Society of Media Photographers and the Young Photographers Alliance. I could go on...but I won't.
 

family run business, than a large corporation. It is the same feeling I got while working at Richard Steedman’s Stock Market Photo Agency. Blend is a very tight knit group that
tries to put a human touch on the experience our photographers have in an industry that has become very automated and impersonal. We still have photographer meetings every year…I don’t know many places that still put that time, expense and effort in to their shooters.

Ten And Two Magazine is a project I came up with alongside a terrific graphic designer named Greg Smith from the Portland, Oregon area. It’s a digital magazine with a basic editorial foundation of fly fishing, which is a passion of both Greg and I. We both had a lot of experience shooting, or writing, or designing projects for a paper based fly fishing magazine and when that magazine folded, we decided to keep something going online.