Alan Capel, Head of Content for Alamy, will be speaking on The Challenge of Crowdsourcing on 25th May 2016 from 14:00 – 15:00 at the CEPIC Congress in Zagreb.
Alan Capel has worked in the Picture Industry for over 25 years. Whilst working as a freelance cartoonist he stumbled across the world of stock and, except for a brief sojourn trying to sell expensive photographic art on the internet,has been here ever since. He started as a picture researcher at Tony Stone Images and managed the physical library in the days before digital. He then focused on the sophisticated keywording approach implemented by Getty Images that underpinned the shift from analogue to digital.
Alan joined Alamy shortly after its inception in 2000 and as Head of Content is responsible for Alamy’s images and the recruitment and management of the contributors who provide them. The site has over 70 Million stock, news and historical pictures from over 45,000 photographers and over 600 picture agencies.He developed Alamy’s strategy for social media and is responsible for their mobile phone app ‘Stockimo’.
He is a regular speaker at Photography industry events. He is a past board member of PACA (now DMLA) and has served on the advisory boards of the YPA and Photocrowd. He is a published photographer, but much prefers drawing to taking pictures and has co-authored four cartoon books
