Stock photographers (especially those who are just starting out) often wonder where their pictures end up. They are notified by their agency when pix have been used, and they may get some basic details about the licence (including the fee), but they won’t get told which book, which magazine, which website, which advert, which company report, which tourist brochure they have featured in. And a lot of pix simply go AWOL; in the digital age it gets ever harder to keep track of pix once they go online, especially once they lose the agency watermarks.
This shot of mine has become the inspiration for a digital artist, with a rather distinctive branch of Greggs (in Dalton, Cumbria) being patronised by Theresa May, Donald Trump,
Kim Jong-un, Piers Morgan, the Queen, Prince Charles and what looks like the members of some boy band. It’s hard to imagine a group portrait in which Piers Morgan wouldn’t be the most loathsome person… though this montage may just be the one. Could that be the artist at bottom left?…
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