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 RoseDesRochers rated 20 months ago - Today's Woman Writing Community has received, and continues to receive, numerous complaints regarding Circle of Photographs, a company that operates under many names including Arts and Kids, International Library of Photography, Circle of Photographers, picture.com, freephotocontest.com, photom...
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- RoseDesRochers rated 20 months ago
- Today's Woman Writing Community has received, and continues to receive, numerous complaints regarding Circle of Photographs, a company that operates under many names including Arts and Kids, International Library of Photography, Circle of Photographers, picture.com, freephotocontest.com, photomuseum.com, and International Society of Photography, just to name a few.
Circle of Photographers states that their mission is to promote photography and photographers through technical workshops, improvisation cessions and contests. An independent panel of experts reviews photographs based on the following criteria: technical quality, composition, flow, texture and light. Amateurs and professionals compete for publication and for a prize of $5000. This is a free contest, open to all and based on merit.
However, a Google search for International Library of Photography returns a message board with nearly 100 messages posted regarding consumer experiences with the company. It would appear that the folks of poetry.com (International Library of Poetry) are now preying on photographers in the same manner that they preyed on innocent poets.
Poetry.com has brought so much publicity that 20-20's show did a documentary on them in 1998 , where a bunch of second graders submitted poems and poetry.com announced that they were all winners.
Now the International Library of Photography are using the same familiar tactics that they did with poetry.com.
It makes me wonder what is next for the company.
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