The 2025-2026 trend cycle has produced a curious consensus: blur is the new watermark. Grain is proof of life. Bad…
Category: commercial stock
From Image to Audience: How Brands Switched Focus and What It Means for Photography
There was a time, not too long ago, when brands bought attention by investing in images. Choosing the right photographer…
Caught in the headlight
As giants like Midjourney, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft freely plunder their work, the stock photo industry—Getty aside—stands by, silently complicit…
AI licensing for photography
From content creation to copyright management, the integration of AI in the field of photography is rewriting the rules. As…
The Curious Case of Text-to-Image Generators and Stock Photo Agencies
Stock photography agencies have always been the symbol of opulent and refined visual content. However, a fascinating and innovative evolution…
Generative AI : Do or Die
Understandably, new powerful technologies like generative AI triggers anxiety. But the conversation needs to evolve and move on from the…
VAIsual And Smarterpix Sign world first Synthetic Media Distribution Agreement
As of today, everyone can download and use true to life 100% AI-generated images. Washington DC, USA. January 5, 2022.…
This is not a press release
The stock photo industry has been devastated. From various newsletters and blogs, some very insightful, it is down to almost…
What’s really behind Getty Image’s acquisition of Unsplash
So close to the first of April, it sounded like an April’s fool hoax: The gentle freedom-loving all sharing company…
NFT’s and Photography
The latest surge of internet photography chatter is about NFT, mainly since a piece of digital art called JPEG was sold…
