Getty Stock Photos

illustration by Andrew Rae, print magazine.

This illustration was made in conjunction with an article in Print Magazine about
Getty Stock Photos.
According to the article, Getty has the richest cache of pictures, all a single keyword away on one of the industry’s most comprehensive, user-friendly websites. "When it comes to visuals, Getty is Wal-Mart and the New York Public Library rolled into one."

Over the past few years, Getty has gobbled up so many smaller stock houses that it now owns 40 percent of the market, large enough to have become the subject of the kind of regulatory, pre-merger antitrust investigations usually associated with banks and airlines.

Getty was founded in 1993 by two investment bankers: Jonathan Klein and Mark Getty, an heir to the Getty oil fortune. At that time, the stock photo market overflowed with small agencies—a classic opportunity for an industry “roll up,” in business school parlance. Getty Images was formed to buy up those mom-and-pop companies and digitize all their collections.

I can relate to this photo because of all of the cords that lead to the computer ports.
It is a familiar look, although, mine isn't half as bad as this picture.