We are pleased to announce Jim Pickerell as the moderator for the Crowdsourcing Seminar which will be held on Friday, 5th of June from 10:00 to 11:00 during the CEPIC Congress 2015 in Warsaw.
Jim began his career in 1963 as a freelance photojournalist in the Far East. He spent ten to fifteen years in Saigon, Vietnam, focusing on assignment work, first as an editorial photographer, and later in the corporate area. He regularly filed his outtakes with several stock agencies around the world. Jim studied the needs of the stock photo market, and began to produce stock images. In the early 80’s he helped establish the Mid-Atlantic chapter of American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and served as Vice President, President and Program Chairman over a period of six years. He served on the national board of ASMP for two years, was on the committee that produced the ASMP Stock Handbook in 1983, and was active in the fight to reverse the IRS rules that required capitalization of all expenses of stock photo production. In 1989 he published the first edition of Negotiating Stock Photo Prices. In 1990, he began publishing Selling-Stock, a bi-monthly newsletter dealing with issues of interest to stock photographers and stock photo sellers, with particular focus on issues related to marketing stock images. Selling-Stock is recognized worldwide as the leading source of in-depth analysis of the stock photo industry. He frequently provides consulting services on stock industry issues to photographers, stock agents and individuals in the investment community. In 1993, his daughter, Cheryl, joined him in the business. Together they established Stock Connection, an agency designed to provide photographers with greater control over the promotion and marketing of their work than most other stock agencies were offering. He frequently provides consulting services on stock industry issues to photographers, stock agents and individuals in the investment community. At age 79, Jim continues to follow stock photo industry developments on a day to day basis and expects to continue to do so far into the future.
