On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Ashim D'Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> The idea was to contribute to the holistic imagery that defines India. So > our initial focus was trying to be on everyday India—office desks, > apartments, remote work, coffee shops, travelling, …. These are places > where it’s easy to fallback to a “generic” photo from another country to > make do, but one from India would be far more satisfying, even if > subconsciously. > As a journalist, I'd be delighted to have such a resource. We do have access to other stock libraries where we can use stuff for free (in addition to the agencies we pay), and there aren't many with an India focus. > > With CC0, the idea was only to remove all barriers to use—so these photos > are used widely and travel, blogs, wallpapers, theme demos, presentations. > Credit is near impossible in a lot of cases, and unless the photo is core > to the piece, it seems out of place. I don’t have an argument for why free, > but that it cuts off a huge set of users who I’d rather were using great > images of India and not restricted by what they can afford: in the spirit > of open-source sharing really. If there’s a better license, happy to hear > about it and adapt. > Wouldn't some form of attribution be better for the photographer? > > So, what’s in it for the photog— mostly nothing but making a better visual > environment with which to represent India. We didn’t do very well with > marketing the first time, so I think we’ll also need more help than just > photographs. >
