Comments on: Ideas to Toss: Getty Images for India.

By: Satya

Satya — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:38:02 +0000

there are many indian stock image bank already in the market.

like visageimages.com/ imagesbazaar.com/ pictureindian.com/ dinodia.com

By: Vijay

Vijay — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:43:53 +0000

@Litan:

Try searching for “Violence” in Imagesbazaar, and you get something like this: http://tinyurl.com/4tb2bn

Is it bad staging or what? Is that wife really trying to kill her husband?

Indianshutter, knowing the efforts that Sanjeev is putting behind it, it has hope. But time will tell.

By: Twilight Fairy

Twilight Fairy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:32:38 +0000

There are several stock agencies in the Indian context eg. Indiapicture.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:30:28 +0000

Litan. I knew about Indianshutter, but the other one is quite nice.

Thanks.

By: Litan

Litan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:27:42 +0000

Wondering if you have checked

http://www.indianshutter.com/
and
http://www.imagesbazaar.com/

Has a good collection of Indian Photographs.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:35:16 +0000

Shripriya,

I guess Photoshelter will become another option, for people looking for stock images.

But I think the context of the conversation was the need for “indian context” photography and images and the lack of them.

By: Shripriya

Shripriya — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:56:37 +0000

As Patrix mentioned on the DP post – PhotoShelter is a great alternative to Getty. There’s no reason photographers and image buyers from India can’t participate.

PhotoShelter is very photographer friendly and the buyers (in the US at least) are very excited about it. I talk more about PhotoShelter here:
http://shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/25/shoot-the-blog/

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Stock Photography in India | DesiPundit — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:04:05 +0000

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By: Invisible China

Invisible China — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:39:32 +0000

I’m ready to take the plunge as I’m ready to shoot and give to them as per their needs. Have you ever checked my photos before – I did send you the link – If you missed here it is -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/invisiblechina/

Please let me know if your friend is interested to start with me, Thanks

By: Vijay

Vijay — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:16:17 +0000

@Anush: Thanks.

@Prabhu: If you look at most of the images from Stock photography collections, they are not all models. Most college students would find this to be a good outlet for making money – if its done professionally. Also we need photos of common “indian” items. So not everything has a model involved.

Shijay: Blogs dont equate to mainstream media. If photoblogging can equate to stock images, Flickr is the best option there is, and it cant get better than that. Plus photobloggers tend to shoot what they like, rather than keeping an object in mind – which is what professional commissioned photography is about. So yep, there is a difference.