Ddbstock.com
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Stock photos of Latin America including one half million original transparencies of Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. All available and deliverable digitally as jpeg lightboxes and high-res TIFS (Up to 4000dpi"/"70 meg)
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INFORMATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
Thank you for your interest in DDB Stock Photography, LLC. We are always interested in adding new talent to the 113 professional photographers we currently represent. We need to refresh our files on a continuous basis and show new perspectives from new photographers. We are a dynamic, growing agency, not a static one resting on old laurels. We aren't content to simply lease our current file of ca. 500,000 color transparencies and 15,000 black and white prints. We want new, current, vibrant pictures from new, highly talented photographers working their way up through the legions of the average. You must be a professional photographer to submit. We represent only true professionals. It's an extremely competitive world out there and only a professional photographer can compete successfully. Please stop reading now if you don't:
We represent professional photographers from throughout the USA and Latin America. We are Interested in all Mexican, Central American, South American and Caribbean subjects. We also need pictures of Hispanic culture in the USA, especially from areas with large Hispanic populations like California, Texas and Florida. The largest growth sector of our market was travel, but recent international events have pretty much eliminated that market. We have fallen back on trade and text book publishers who are relatively unaffected by world events. You always need a textbook, but you might be able to put off that cruise. The trade and textbook market is very large, but it's also demanding, highly focused and strongly buffeted by public opinion. Currently, it's so milky toast that many photographers shun it to avoid early death through boredom.
That's largely because of an increasing trend to show a sanitized, moderated, upper middle class view of Latin America that makes it appear just like the United States. The textbooks are horribly US-centric and require pictures of Latin America you could easily find in Kansas. If this has discouraged you, then it's time to quit reading and check out another agency. However, if you are still with me, then you will have recognized a business opportunity, indeed a ever-hungry niche that's ripe to be filled. Just think about it as fashion photography, and the current fashion is to fake Latin American culture by cramming it into a US mold. Fashion changes; one day the publishers will come to their collective senses and celebrate the rich diversity of Latin American culture through honest illustration. I just hope we don't have to wait for a demographic change to an Hispanic majority before that actually takes place. I have no problem with an Hispanic majority, but it will take too long to have an impact on my business.
Languages
English
Contact
- DDB Stock Photography
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- Baton Rouge LA
- United States 70808
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- (225) 763-7235
