BAPLA Shock Horror
Yesterday was the Annual General Meeting of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies, our trade body. BAPLA represents the interests of picture libraries large and small, and fotoLibra...
View ArticleBAPLA’s response to our complaint
If we were astonished when we heard BAPLA’s plans to go into business on Tuesday, we were grateful and even more astonished by the overwhelming flood of support from so many people to our last blog...
View ArticlefotoLibra 2009 Pro Blog Index
Here’s an index to the fotoLibra Pro Blog for the whole of 2009. As I complained 6 months ago, it takes a surprising amount of time to compile, so if there are any WordPress experts out there who know...
View ArticleMountains into Molehills
fotoLibra member John Cleare is a world-famous mountain photographer who made his reputation long before fotoLibra was even a gleam in my eye, so we can claim no credit for his fame, alas. Indeed, I...
View ArticleWhat’s so thrilling about a parking meter?
It came to me in a flash. At a BAPLA Picture Buyers’ Fair (remember them?) I was barking and shilling on the fotoLibra stand. OK, I admit it, I was pretty desperate. “Roll up, roll up, leddies ‘n’...
View ArticlefotoFringe, May 11
When fotoLibra was just an ickle bitty new picture library we scraped all our pennies together and took a stand at the BAPLA Picture Buyers’ Fair. We thought it crucial that we should hang out our...
View ArticlefotoFringe
There was no BAPLA Picture Buyers’ Fair this year. The lovely and redoubtable Flora Smith of Topfoto decided to do something about it. With the help of Will Carleton of Photo Archive News she created...
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