‘Citizen stock’ aims to improve quality of stock photos
Photo from Petapixel
Whenever people see stock photos that feature people that are clearly models they immediately question the authenticity of the digital product or service. This is a great idea to make more authentic stock photography of people more readily available for designers to use.
“Fake People Suck” — now that’s a tagline. In 2009 David Katzenstein and Sherrie Nickol began a fine arts project that involved asking people off the street to come to their studio and photographing them against a white background. The idea was to capture the striking diversity that’s commonplace in New York. But after photographing about 50 people — and due also to a steady drop in commissions from commercial and corporate projects — they realized the potential the project had as a commercial venture. Thus was born Citizen Stock.
Check out the full article over at the wonderful PetaPixel.
