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Article in EU Diversity News regarding E.U. Return Policies for Refugees. Photo by: Guido Koppes Not very often it occurs, that I donate Images to a Publisher for free to publish inside their Editorial Media. Just one time I did so, in the past 20 years and only because the main subject: refugee policies inside […]

Climate Change has been an issue for some decades now, including Global Warming, Greenhouse Gasses and the Destruction of Entire Landscapes, including Villages like Lutzerath,  for Mining of Fossil Fuels. The past couple of years I have been documenting various aspects of this subject. Brown Coal Mines in Germany, activism in various, Dutch cities, logistics […]

On Apple Books, part of the Apple iTunes Store, I offer Five different E-Books for download for iPad, iPhone, MacBook and various other, Apple Devices. If you’re a Photography Enthousiast, fond of Documentary, Visual Stories, perhaps these Titles are Specially Waiting for You? A Visual Autobiography. A Collection of Images showing a Search for Identity […]

Using protected images without permission, without payment of royalties or even giving credit to the creator. In the European Union you can do that, provided you do so via embedding. Creators and sellers of images refuse to accept this legal loophole. They are not dinosaurs failing to embrace progress: this is where legislation is lagging […]

Ken je dat? Ontdek je het gebruik van een van jouw, professioneel gemaakte foto’s op de website van een commercieel bouwbedrijf, en je ziet meteen dat die publicatie niet klopt. Dus stuur je een verzoek om het beeld alsnog te betalen. Krijg je een mail retour, waarin nogal dreigend wordt gesteld, dat de inbreuk plegende […]

As of recent years an increasing amount of political, economical and military mayhem is going on, started with occupation by the Russians of Crimea and Eastern Parts of Ukraine. Since the election and inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States,  things are speeding up. War in Israel & Gaza, former Filipino President […]

Recent years have seen a huge decline in Editorial & Documentary Photography made by Independent Photo Journalists and Visual Story Tellers. Especially revenues for producing visual storytellers declined hugely. Both Market Conditions & Individual Circumstances are Responsible, including Main Stream Media, who nearly totally stopped publishing Stories that Matter Most. It’s Mayhem all over the […]

Januari 2025. An issue of “New Perspectives” from Image Rights highlights work I’ve made over the past ten years of so. What I favour very much, is the “External Perspective” on my work. As in: someone else describing it and the impact it (may) have on people who are confronted with my images. Since Images […]

Today, January 7, 2025, a Press Release stumbled into my inbox, which gave me “a Bit of a DeJaVu”. In 2018 a couple of merges in the Duch Stock- & PressPhoto Market in were finalised, leaving PhotoJournalists & Contributing Photographers in many cases with rapidly declining  sales and revenues. Monopolies of the merged or taken […]

Sometimes I find my Images after some years back in worthwhile publications, and this one deserves “some attention”. One of my long lasting projects, as a photographer and photojournalist is: “Poverty”. And occasionally my work ends up on the Covers of Books on just that subject. This one, for example. The Book: “Armzalig”, by: Wieke […]

By: Alfonso Gutierrez  Let me imagine that all stock photographers have in mind this question at one moment or the other when taking pictures. Of course, besides those who think they have created a fine art masterpiece every time they push the trigger, the rest of us have doubts when getting out to shoot. For […]

Creators & Creative Professionals (like photographers and photo-journalists) tell about their contract practice and the sometimes financially degrading terms they are forced to accept to even be able to create their work. More information on www.platformmakers.nl (in Dutch). Perhaps an argument, why revenues should end up where they are earned most: at creator’s bank accounts.