No More Bad Stock Photos: How a Great Image Helped Inspire Me to Launch Stocksy

Summary

My obsession with stock photography can be traced back to an exact moment in the late ’90s when I saw an ad for Getty Images in Wallpaper magazine; it was a close-up shot of a horse’s white mane against a black background. I was fascinated by the bold use of negative space, its minimalism, and the power in photographing something often taken for granted over something obvious, like a portrait.