How can he sell from his own site and still be selling on istock? I thought doing both was not possible with the IS artist supply agreement.

If you are an exclusive contributor, you can't upload to other sites, but Yuri is a non-exclusive iStock contributor. You can find Yuri's collection on several online microstock agencies, including Shutterstock, Fotolia, Dreamstime, 123rf, Alamy, Veer, DepositPhotos, Photodune, Crestock, Pixmac, Canstock and many, many more. In fact you will often be able to find images that are not available through iStock on other sites because of the upload limit imposed by iStock.

PeopleImages.com is an agency selling only Yuri's images, and there are currently no plans of accepting contributors in similar ways as is done on Shutterstock/iStock/Dreamstime/Fotolia/etc.

It's easy. Peopleimages.com is a separate company that has "contracted" Yuri to submit and sell his work. As an istock contributor, you can do it too. First, create and incorporate a business. Call it "Acme Images, Inc." for example. Next, Acme Images will purchase your images on a work for hire basis for lets say, one dollar. Acme Images will then own and sell your images on it's website. Now you're still an exclusive istock contributor who also does freelance work on the side. In this case, Acme Images is purchasing your images outright to sell on it's website. As a shareholder in the independent company you will also be taking a share of those profits.

You're right in theory, but it is very unlikely that iStock would not reach to this if you are an exclusive contributor. However, as Yuri is not exclusive with iStock, he can sell his images on pretty much where he wishes to.

I guess the PA went on vacation...

Just because I'm not constantly commenting, it doesn't mean I'm not here.
Have a great further discussion. It's always very amusing to read.
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Alessa
Yuri's PA

Hi everybody,
We've seen a lot of guesswork going on in this thread as to what's happening, and we'd like to make it absolutely clear that we are not part of any sort of arrangement with Fotolia to keep prices in the industry at a certain level.
That being said, it is true that we here at Yuri Arcurs Photography, as many other photographers, have contacted amongst others Deposit Photos to make them aware of where the industry will be heading in a short time if they continue to drop prices. This has resulted in Deposit Photos having raised their prices. We encourage every photographer to engage in negotiations with whatever agency they submit images to in order to get a fair commission. The agencies cannot and should not agree on prices amongst them, so Fotolia will never negotiate any deals with Deposit Photos, but the photographers who submit images to the agencies can and should do so.

I hope this clarifies some of the questions which have been raised in this thread.

Best
Alessa
Yuri's personal assistant