DAVID ELLINGSEN PHOTOGRAPHY

I’m in the process of signing a new contract with stock agency Corbis.

While still firmly focused on portraits and people in my commercial work (which will be a large part of this new venture) I have also always made a lot of images outside of those parameters and am very pleased to have this partnership with Corbis to get them out in the world. The beginning stages have been smooth, professional and yet nicely personal…with a great art director, Dennis, to guide us through. Looks like we’ll be working together this summer on some projects here in Vancouver and I’m looking forward to meeting in person.

I’m very interested to see what the end result will be, in terms of income anyway, when it gets down to brass tacks. There’s so much discussion right now of Stock being dead, the decline of income in this industry, microstock’s effect, etc, etc, etc. Check out an enlightening discussion at A Photo Editor on this subject.
I’ll keep you posted on my end…

Speaking of stock, I was recently observing all the press after the release of the iPad from Apple and it got me thinking about the speed of obsolescence in our culture, especially with our media tools…and what a great stock shoot that concept would make. The image above is the first…