The Stock Asylum Publishes Second Annual Stock Asylum 103 List of Quality Stock Distributors
The Stock Asylum, LLC, today released the Second Annual Stock Asylum 103, a carefully edited list of quality, rights-managed stock photography distributors in an easy-to-use format.
Designers, advertisers, publishers and other buyers of professional stock photography will find this listing an indispensable source of information in a day when finding the right image seems to be getting harder as more small companies enter the market. With 17 categories of stock photography collections, The Stock Asylum 103 makes finding the right stock agency a much simpler task.
“For the last two years, compiling this list has probably been our most extensive, difficult and rewarding task,” said Stock Asylum Managing Editor Ron Rovtar. “In creating this list, we reviewed hundreds of image collections, then spent countless hours boiling down the information we compiled in order to create the most useful and comprehensive grouping.”
“With the loss of several important collections to industry consolidations over the last year, we were worried we would have trouble compiling another quality list this year.,” said Rovtar. In fact, it became very clear early on that we had no reason to worry. We were very pleased about the quality of work we found. If anything, this compilation is superior to the first one we did a year ago.”
The Stock Asylum made a special effort to include stock suppliers of all sizes. Big stock agencies like Getty Images and Corbis made the list along with high-quality small ones like Glasshouse Images, a library of conceptual photography, and UpperCut, a new collection of quality work that went live on the internet in July. In addition, several single-photographer libraries made the list, including Penny Gentieu’s Babystock and Abraham Manashe Humanistic Photography, a popular collection of black and white people images.
Twenty-eight new names made the second annual listing in categories that include architecture and construction; artistic and conceptual; editorial and historic; famous people; flowers and gardens; food and still lifes; general; military and safety services; nature and animals; non-photographic art; people and lifestyles; places and travel; science, medicine and technology; sports; transportation; and unusual approaches.
“For image researchers who want fresh work, this list is a great place to start,” said Rovtar. “We were ruthless in creating the Stock Asylum 103. If a library isn’t special, it doesn’t make the list.
The Stock Asylum, at https://www.stockasylum.com, is a collection of resources for rights-managed stock photography buyers based in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to The Stock Asylum 103, at https://www.stockasylum.com/text-pages/findagency.htm, the web site provides news and analysis of the stock photography industry, an independent catalog of stock images, and publishes a number of resources, including a longer listing of stock distributors, a directory of web pages with stock photography, a listing of alternative stock sources, an assignment photographer listing, professional reading recommendations, a listing of business web sites and a glossary of stock industry terminology. The Stock Asylum is strictly an editorial project and sells no stock photography licenses itself.
