• Are you meta-smart?
    If you create, distribute or use digital photos, you’d better be!

    To protect your copyrights. To make money licensing photography. To smooth your workflow. To track image use. To find images you need. To find them again. You need to understand and use photo metadata.

    SAA can help.

    Go directly to www.PhotoMetadata.org
    Register to attend a FREE event to getMETAsmart! 

Membership Info

  • SAA is the only trade association focused exclusively on the business of stock photography.

     

    SAA Supports Your Business.

    SAA gives our members the information they need
    to adapt to changes and challenges in today’s
    marketplace. ...more

    SAA Speaks Up for You.

    Members can count on SAA to serve as a clear
    and powerful voice in the industry. We take action
    on contract issues, business practices, licensing
    standards and copyright infringements. ...more

    Join SAA Today.

    We welcome established and emerging pro
    photographers, along with allied industry professionals and students to join us. 

    JOIN NOW 

     


     

Open Resources

  • cover-image of the latest KEYWORDS magazine issue

     

    [Key]Words™
    is SAA's Guide
    to the Business
    of Stock

    This free ezine features
    50 pages of definitions, insights, resources and visual inspiration from SAA members who share their knowledge about all aspects of
    the industry. ...more

    Model and Property Releases are essential tools.
    SAA provides a Q+A and points you to release forms that you can use to enhance the marketability of your stock images. ...more

    image of the SAA PLUS™Packs Calculator

     

     

     

     

    Rights Managed licensing is fast
    and easy with PLUS Packs. 

    SAA supports this global standard for streamlined, easily automated RM with our development of this open-source software tool. SAA's Calculator automates selection and pricing of PLUS Packs™ on one screen, with just a few clicks. ...more

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Latest News

Read the latest news and reports of SAA's initiatives to support professional stock photographers.