Picfair

Picfair offers free photography guides, tutorials, and tips to help users improve skills and sell their work.

The tool generates AI-powered image descriptions, alt text, captions, and keywords for up to five images at once.

Picfair has three types of licence: Editorial & Personal, Commercial and Advertising. Each licence has different permissions regarding the format, context and timeframe in which an image can and cannot be used.

The Picfair directory lists published stores, showcasing photographers’ portfolios and enabling direct print or license purchases.

Focus provides guidance for photographers to begin selling their work online, based on industry expertise and in-house experience.

Picfair Plus allows users to personalize their store with custom domains, templates, logos, and sell various print and digital products with commercial licenses.

Picfair Plus offers adjustable pricing and features for customizing a photography store.

About Picfair Find out what Picfair is, how it works, and why photographers choose it.

Picfair enables users to start selling images from their store quickly, handling payments, licenses, and global print shipping.

Picfair describes its cookie usage, the types set on picfair.com, and user control options.

Picfair explains how it handles, uses, and protects user data under UK and EU privacy laws.

Picfair has three different contributor agreements: Editorial & Personal Agreement, Commercial Agreement, Advertising Agreement

Picfair outlines the terms governing image sales and licensing for contributors and buyers.

Picfair, a London-based platform for hobbyist photographers, reaches **1 million registered users** while also achieving **profitability**, according to the company. The service helps creators build portfolios and sell prints directly to customers. This marks a key growth phase for the business, which targets independent photographers seeking monetization tools.

Mar 2024The Dead Pixels SocietyNews article

Picfair introduces Picfair Stores, allowing its 35,000 marketplace photographers to create their own free online shops. Buyers can purchase licensed digital copies or physical prints of the photographers’ work directly from these stores.

Sep 2018TechCrunchNews article

Picfair secures £1.5 million in funding to expand its image licensing marketplace. The round is led by investment firm Claverley Group. The platform connects photographers and businesses for royalty-free stock imagery.

Sep 2017UKTNNews article

Picfair secures £1.5 million in funding to expand its platform, which connects photographers with businesses seeking authentic photo content. The London-based marketplace, founded by former journalist Benji Lanyado, promotes a 'fair trade photography' model to ensure fair compensation for creators. The funding will support marketing efforts targeting companies in need of genuine visual assets.

Sep 2017TechCrunchNews article