Just had my images reviewed a few hours ago, all the batches in one stroke (the oldest one was from Oct.1, one month ago).
Last week I emailed the person in charge, just to try to have a better sense of the future direction of the site. At this point it's mainly a one-man university project, doing it with his own personal resources for a good outreach cause, there is no finance available for any marketing plan, but the site is there as a free platform for photographers to attract their own clients/designers, free of charge. Thus it is considered as a service for the photographers who would like to advertise without having to create their own website. I will personally continue to support it, knowing that the sales may however remain very low. I will stop if I see that it becomes to much of a burden for the person in charge. Here is the message that the owner would like to convey to the photographers:
Dave Bailey said the following on 25/10/2006 4:14 PM:
I really appreciate your help
What I need to communicate is that as a free service I can't sell pictures for people, I can only offer the tools. If photographers like the site, I'm relying on them to tell people their work is available on the site to buy. The site has actually had a lot of exposure - BBC radio 2, WebUser magazine, several photography journals etc but always from a seller's perspective. I need help from photographers if I am to stimulate sales, just filling the site with photos is no longer enough
Hope you see what I mean
Fingers crossed for the future
Dave