This month, I received one of my worst Sales and Royalty Statement since I work for a photo agency. Don't think it's necessary to give you the name, I guess every agencies are affected by... I have sold dozen and dozen of photographs for an Internet time limited access use for only 0,31$. Yes, you read well : 0,31$!! And of course, you have to subtract the photo agency rate, and then to convert American Dollars to Euros. Enough said, I think you can easily imagine that a photo on Internet has NO VALUE in 2010. Well, it's not always true, sometimes you can sold a photo for 50$ if it's big enough and if it's for a big and well known website...
What if photo value would depend of the number of views on a page? What if you removed all the photos and pictures on a daily news website, on every websites? Yes, it could be very poor, uninteresting, boring. I think everybody needs photographs to illustrate a website. So, why images don't have their right value, depending on their size and on the number of views? Don't you think photo value should be more important on Internet when you have thousands and millions of views and clicks than on a paper magazine?
Well, I hope and I wish 2011 will be a better year for all the professional photographers who are in the streets and everywhere to shoot what's happened in this world, a World who doesn't turn really round...
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