PhotoSource International Overview

PhotoSource International provides photosales opportunities to photographers, and photo finding services to photobuyers, in the U.S. and abroad. In addition, the company's newsletters, books, reports and on-line photo gallery are sources of current key stock photo information and images for photographers, buyers, and photo researchers.

PhotoSource International, a privately held company established in 1976 and located at Pine Lake Farm near Osceola, Wisconsin, has earned the trust of those in the stock photo industry. PhotoSource International provides market services to photographers and photobuyers around the world.

To provide a direct channel for photobuyers to quickly and easily find the source of specialized pictures they need, and to help stock photographers sell their photos.

To provide both photographers and photobuyers with information on developmentsand trends in the stock photography field.

To provide photographers with key elements on how to operate a successful stock photo business.

Newsletter: PhotoStockNotes - 4-page weekly (on-line) with current updates on issues important to suppliers and users of stock photography. A marketletter edition of PhotoStockNotes, called PSN/Plus, includes an extra page with specific photo needs listed by photobuyers.

Books: Sell & ReSell Your Photos, by Rohn Engh, veteran photographer and founder and director of PhotoSource International. Widely prized as the top-sellinghow-to book for stock photographers. Now in its 5th printing. A second book by Rohn Engh, sellphotos.com, shows photographers how to use the Internet to sell their photos.

Guides: Brief "how-to" information sheets on the many different factors important to making photo sales.

Reports: Concise manuals on various aspects of operating a freelance photography business.

Seminars: PhotoSource International director Rohn Engh gives periodic "Selling and ReSelling Your Photos" seminars across the country.

Market lists of photobuyers grouped according to the specific subject categories they need.

PHOTODAILY- Issued daily via e-mail. Lists photo needs of photobuyers paying $100 and up per photo. Subscribers: qualified part-time and professional full-time photographers.

PHOTOLETTER- Issued weekly via e-mail. Lists photo needs of photobuyers paying from $50 to $100 per photo. Subscribers: entry level and part-time photographers.

PHOTOSTOCKNOTES/PLUS - Issued weekly via e-mail. Lists photo needs of photobuyers paying from $25 to $75 per photo. Subscribers: entry level and part-time photographers.

PhotoSource International has provided information on the subject of stock photography for more than thirty years, in industry photo columns and in its own newsletters. PhotoSource International also maintains a website as another means of sharing this wealth of how-to information. The PhotoSource International site is the most comprehensive site on the Web for stock photographers and photobuyers. It encompasses 58 sections of marketing and operation information. The entire site is searchable. www.photosource.com

PhotoSourceBANK - A major feature on the PhotoSource International website:
The PhotoSource BANK provides a directory of photographers, with complete contact information and electronic access, plus specific text descriptions of their photos and specialty areas. Using the powerful PhotoSourceBANK search features, a photobuyer can find a photographer in seconds who has coverage of their needed subject area. The buyer then contacts the photographer directly, and using phone, fax and either light box or traditional delivery methods, makes the transaction. This is a practical, cost-effective promotional channel available to photographers. Photographers receive 100% of each sale.

PhotoSourceFOLIO
This feature on the PhotoSource International website serves as an exhibit area. An extension of the PhotoSourceBank, participating PhotoSourceFolio photographers each display six representative images. A prospective photobuyer can quickly see firsthand the photographer's unique vision, technique, and expertise. For photographers, using their personal PhotoSourceFolio page can avoid delays in sending samples and/or sell sheets to a photobuyer, and thus speed up a sale.

Founder and director of PhotoSource International, Rohn Engh, is a former editorial photographer, well-known seminar presenter, and a photo columnist. In 1988 Engh pioneered using a daily fax bulletin to send his subscriber photographers the stock photo needs of magazine and book photo editors. Earlier, in 1983, he was among the first to use the ground-breaking on-line service, NewsNet, to deliver his products and services to his customers. Rohn Engh lives on a 100-acre Wisconsin farm with his wife, Jeri, a writer whose articles have appeared in Reader's Digest, Saturday Review, Redbook, and many other magazines and newspapers. Jeri is Editorial Director of PhotoSource International.