On January 22, Corbis announced the sale of Corbis Images and the Demotix brand and content to Visual China Group (VGC), which through a new distribution partnership will in turn hand the collections over to Getty Images.
Contributors to Demotix and Corbis were informed of the sale in a brief email on January 28, which further informed:
Currently the Demotix website is redirecting visitors to Corbisimages.com. VCG will communicate next steps with Demotix contributors as soon as possible.
I haven’t heard anything since — not about the sale, not about the status of the images, and not about the outstanding balance owed to me by Demotix.
Will my images now be part of Getty’s catalog? I hope not because I didn’t sign up for that.
In any case the redirect makes it impossible for me to access my own images filed for Demotix, so I can’t fix any of the nearly-dead links that have resulted from galleries here. My apologies for that, but it’s a situation that’s entirely out of my control.
Those that were made available via Corbis can still be accessed. For now my catalog remains here.
If you’re interested in purchasing rights to any of those images, please feel free to get in touch.
I’ll update accordingly when we’re informed. But I won’t be holding my breath in the meantime.
