Release Issued by ANP Photo:
ANP Photo introduces a brand new collection of stock photos, called
World Portraits.
This worldwide and unique initiative enables models to earn money with
their photos, every time their image is published. In second and third
world countries, models receive their money by means of micro banking
facilities or as a cheque.
The people that are portrayed are not professional models, but
ordinary people who sign a model release contract on the spot. In
doing so they agree in the use of their photo for any kind of publication purpose.
The idea of World Portraits is that in Western countries, it’s common
that models sign a model release and receive money for their job. In
other parts of the world, people are portrayed at least as often.
Their image can be found on calendars, postcards, billboards, in
books, travel brochures and magazines. But they don’t know about it,
let alone receive any money. World Portraits changes this issue.
Dutch Princess Máxima recently launched World Portraits in the Museon
in The Hague, where she also visited an exhibition of the collection.
This exhibition will travel through The Netherlands in the next months.
With World Portraits, depicting people of around the world in their
every- day routine, ANP Photo shows how businesses can put fair trade
and ethical issues at the heart of what they are doing.
The collection can be seen at
www.world-portraits.com. All World
Portraits photos can be ordered and downloaded at the usual rates at
www.anp- photo.com.
World Portraits is being supported by the DOEN Foundation. DOEN
supports the concept of World Portraits because it considers portrait
right as a basic right that human beings have. The DOEN Foundation
thinks it is time that this right is organised for all people, also
for people living in developing countries.
ANP Photo
A daily flow of images since 1946 has now provided a database of
millions of news and stock photos. These pictures are available at
www.anp- photo.com.. Images are available for professional picture users worldwide.
