Photography and photo imagingMedia sector

What is the photography industry?

• Photography is done with a camera that has lenses to take pictures. The photo imaging and photography industry is made up of 8,700 companies. Two thirds of them are sole traders or free lance photographers.

• The remaining companies can be categorized in the following:

• Photo retail

• Agencies and Picture libraries

• Manufacturers

• Support Services (Equipment hire and repair)

Size, shape and structure

• Within the UK’S photography industry, there is over 43,100 staff. 51% of these are based in the south of England which is the largest proportion. The rest of the staff are around Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the remaining regions of England; Southwest (13%) and East of England (12%).

Companies

• Snappy Snaps were founded in 1983 and they’re a private sector company and they are under the ownership of Shareholder.

• Instagram Were founded in October 2010, they’re a private sector company that is under the development and ownership of Facebook which are governed be Accel Partners.

Links to other industries

• Photography and Photo imaging can be linked to The advertising and marketing industry because some pictures taken from real humans will be put on billboards when advertising something, maybe the picture is on the bottle making for more interesting ways of advertisement.

Ownership of the companies

• Instagram. They are owned by facebook and facebook is governed by accel partners. Accel fund different companies from when they started and where they are now. They have helped entrepreneurs build over 250 successful companies such as Glam media, Angry birds, spotify and many more.

• Snappy Snaps. They are a private sector company so they have no sister company with anyone.

Digital Photography

• With the technology nowadays we are able to take pictures and use programmes such as MS paint and CS Photoshop to manipulate them. Throughout the years of ever-changing technology we are able to send Music, Picture and videos through email making it easier than years ago when a film was handed around.