Digital Railroad Inc. today launched the first online archive system that gives the power of a large photo agency to individual photographers.
Digital Railroad’s Web-based application services transform the individual photographer’s business. Digital Railroad, www.digitalrailroad.net, automates repetitive workflow tasks, as well as streamlines delivery of images and communications with clients providing photographers an online searchable archive that unlocks potential image revenue.
Photography legends and previous White House photographers Dirck Halstead and David Hume Kennerly, who have tested the system, believe it is a watershed product that will change the way business is done in the professional photography industry.
“Digital Railroad eliminates the daily technology hurdles photographers struggle with; finally photographers can have access to efficient tools for editing, archiving and simultaneously distributing their work,” said Halstead, award-winning photojournalist and publisher of Digital Journalist.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly says Digital Railroad has proven to be the answer for many of his production workflow problems and enables him to interact more easily with his editors.
“I like the real-time collaboration with editors using the digital lightbox features. I can be online in Bangkok, and making selections with an editor in New York. Digital Railroad is the answer for those of us who want total control over our own marketing and distribution,” says Kennerly.
“With Digital Railroad, photographers can finally take control of their creative businesses,” said company founder and chief executive officer Evan Nisselson. “We’ve created an affordable, automated system as powerful as any of the proprietary major agency systems. We free photographers from managing technology and allow them to concentrate on what they love being creative.”