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I was rather amused by a BBC news item that I heard about at lunch time today. One of the Unionist parties in Northern Ireland has produce an election campaign poster depicting a woman explaining why she was switching parties at the forthcoming general election.
Anyway, the opposition party did some homework, found out where the image of the woman in the poster came from, a stock photo agency, bought another copy of the woman's image, and produced a poster telling the viewer that she'd had a change of heart and wasn't going to change her allegiance after all.
And the winner out of all this - the photographer I hope!
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Poster girl
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#1Stephen commentedEditing a commentUnfortunately there are some stock libraries that seem to pay very little per image, so I too hope they did OK from these ones :)
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#2Ian commentedEditing a commentIndeed, while some agencies value an image through the expected use of that image, I'm sure other agencies are less generous. I'd expect a poster campaign would have netted a reasonably good fee for the photographer.
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