Blend Images is a photographer-owned and operated creative content development company specializing is multicultural stock images and video. With over 150 active image producers and the largest distribution channel of any commercial stock photography agency, Blend has emerged as one of the world’s most respected photo agencies by photographers and clients alike.
Founded in 2003 by a consortium of the some of the most notable and respected commercial photographers and managed by key industry veterans, Blend Images continues to thrive and provide a unique creative community for each of our contributing artists.
Blend’s library includes four major content collections. While all focus on ethnically diverse business and lifestyle imagery, by providing different licensing environments we are able to service the widest possible group of clients – from those requiring an image for a small business web-site, to those who require exclusive content for major national advertising.
Rights Managed (RM):
Premium Royalty Free (RF):
Value Priced RF – Boost (BT):
Blend Motion (RR / RF):
When looking for a photo agency to represent your work, do consider an agency’s ability to get your work in front of as many prospective art buyers as possible. By focusing on generating only highly in demand content, we have been able to put together an extremely comprehensive distribution network. Furthermore, we often receive higher search rankings that other content providers due to the quality of and the demand for the content we provide. Multicultural content, quite simply, is of the most underrepresented subjects in modern commercial libraries and the most in demand.
Blend Images is more than a picture agency. As we were founded by a group of very successful commercial stock photographers, their positive and negative agency experiences guided Blend’s operating principals. At Blend “for photographers, by photographers” is more than just a saying – it is our guiding ethos. Your success, ultimately, is our success. Frankly, we provide more creative support and guidance than any other modern commercial photo agency. And being part of the Blend community gives you direct access to not only our founding partners – several of whom are among the top grossing stock shooters in history – but also all of the other Blend photographers who are open and eager to share information and advice.
As a Blend Photographer you will receive:
We only invite the best shooters to join our family, as our success relies on consistent excellence. Our sales partners expect only the finest monthly submissions. By keeping the level of our content very high, we can demand the very highest sales splits from our sales channel, and we can ensure the fastest time to market possible.
Our infrastructure focuses on having staff with diverse skills and years of experience and utilizing technology effectively to communicate and provide important data to our photographers to ensure the right content is being produced.
Our web-based photographer interface consists of three main applications:
We expect regular, consistent submissions on a monthly or bi-monthly basis which are based on our needs list and input from your editor.
Also important to note, we're nice folks. We love stock photography, and we love photographers, because we ARE photographers. We do understand what it takes to create the very best work. We've all been on shoots that have generated killer shots. And of course, the occasional production that just didn't fly. We know the kind of investment photographers make in their content, and we take our role seriously to generate the very best returns possible. We only hire staff who are helpful, committed, and most importantly, have enough experience under their belt to be able to provide truly useful input. We return phone calls. And if you ever want to talk to the CEO, his cell phone number is listed in the staff directory. In short, Blend is a unique community of photographers creating the world's best multicultural stock content backed by a staff of truly talented professionals.
Join Us.
Step 1: Receive an email with the contract and W-9 form.
Step 2: Submit between 10-15 high res digital sample images to our Seattle office to assure your files will generally pass quality control. The images don’t have to be images that will go into the Blend Images collection. They can be samples only. After the review is complete, we will send technical feedback via email.
Submissions can be sent via FTP. Send FTP information to qualitycontrol@blendimages.com. Please provide your own FTP information, use a large file delivery system like “you send it” or send a springloaded hotlink.
Minimum digital requirements to qualify for photographer representation:
Step 3: Once the files are approved, the contract is finalized. When you are ready to enter into an agreement— print, sign, and mail two copies of the agreement and the W-9 to:
Blend Images
Attn: Sarah Fix
3008 Sentney Ave.
Culver City, CA 90232