What is Stock Photography?

Stock photography is photography of sights, ideas, and events that can be used for marketable design purpose. A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time and money. Publishers, advertising agencies, graphic artists, web designers, interior decor firms, corporate creative groups, and others use stock photography to fulfill the needs of their creative assignments. Stock photos can be licensed for specific uses. The same image can be sold many times, because buyers usually don’t get exclusive rights. Stock photography includes images of people, animals, objects, landscapes, buildings, concepts, and events that can be sold to and used by a wide variety of media outlets.

Unfortunately, in the world of Art, the artistic value of stock photography has often been considered low and associated with “consumption”, as stock photos are shot to be sold. But stock photography is an Art and its creator is an Artist. Stock photography can come from your spirit and reflect your vision of the world. And although a large part of stock photography is more useful than creative, the best examples of it combine usefulness and artistic value, functionality and aesthetics.