There is no charge to become a member of PICSEL. To join, simply complete the membership form along with the UK Mandate form. If you’d also like us to collect revenue from overseas CMOs on your behalf, don’t forget to fill out the Overseas Mandate form too.
Membership of the fastest growing CMO for visual arts (VACMO) will bring benefits. Our aim is to generate more revenue for your rights. We offer direct support to help manage your mandates and data, whilst giving you the reassurance that we will always have your interests at heart, as well as update you on important issues and new business opportunities. Importantly, we have reduced the administrative and financial burden for claimants by providing a simple, fair and transparent process.
Richard was Inspired by his father, a quietly spoken engineer with a love for photography, whose self processed black and white photographs were always around. His images of village streets were possibly more influential to Richard than he realised.
Richard’s reputation has been built on photography of high-profile contemporary architecture, as is evident from the images below, but has always enjoyed the historic too. In fact, his final year thesis, training as an architect was to find and photographically document the works of Palladio in the Veneto.
“I do love the graphic image and with magazine front covers in mind I always included them within a building study portfolio. It’s the bigger shots and more complex images relating to spatial relationships that really intrigue me. These are images that the viewer has to take time over. With the proliferation of imagery, the mobile phone camera, and 6 seconds being the average time spent looking at a web sites main image, it is a concern that photographically interpreting architecture is losing its edge.”
Earning a living exclusively from photography is increasingly difficult.
Many non-photographers can make acceptable images in a digital world.
Right click technology and free on-line magazines have devastated income from image reproduction fees – the bedrock of a commissioned photographers ‘resting’ income.
Now more than ever a photographer needs a body to fight their corner and deliver much needed revenue. PICSEL understands photography and photographers. Other collecting societies have been ‘high art’ oriented. Changing to PICSEL was easy – they helped every step of the way. Similarly, with understanding how to claim. Whoever your representative is you will have to submit the same information. Yet since its launch PICSEL has managed to pay out more to photographers than other collecting societies on similar claims. PICSEL has helped photographers interpret what is needed to squeeze out the best return. In the background they are banging the drum for a fair deal across media and territories for the photographic community.
I’m pleased PICSEL is there and looking out for the best deal for my legacy image rights.
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