EyeEm - Photography 12+

Having tried pretty much every stock photo selling app and EyeEm is the only one I have made sales with. And quite a few sales at that. It is also the most positively encouraging of the lot and features great articles with tips on selling and taking good pics in general. These guys really want to see their members do well and I never feel like I’m competing with other photographers - even in the competitions EyeEm runs. It’s literally all about taking and sharing and seeing great photos! Thanks guys... Muttly.

I’ve uploaded a bunch of photos to EyeEm over the years .. in the beginning they pitched themselves as a platform for photographers to share with each other and eventually sell their work too.. great.. or so it seemed.. one or two of my photos sold for a couple of dollars here and there.. the biggest sale being about 5 dollars.. then I walked into a major retail chain to see that photo being sold on a shirt. At first I was flattered, but the more I’ve thought about it in the intervening hours.. it’s t eta Lou taking advantage at that point, where a huge multinational fast fashion retailer can potentially make huge sums of money from my image that they paid so little for. This system is broken and it is the individual photographers who are worse off for it. It feels like theft.. I wouldn’t have cared if it was on a poster or in an ad.. but actually being turned into a physical product that in turn is sold for money at a huge scale seems wrong.. and downright dishonest.
EyeEm do not make it clear what you’re getting into when you list images on their site.

This app has in the last 6 months been impossible to even get an image on the market , as opposed to the 2 yrs previous when I could have most images in partner collection. There’s been a change in whose in charge of vetting images and far Be it from them knowing a decent shot of it came up and kissed them. I’m far from a great photographer, but I do consistently take interesting and worthy images, but after 2.5 yrs of first making the cut, to then being rejected and without so much as a way to dispute, I’m sick of trying to sell images on this app, they take far too much of your earnings, and they reek of snobbery when they ought to look at the real world and not believe that “the new normal” and mask wearers are worthy of being paid money for, steer clear!