To maintain its iron grip on the stock photo industry, Getty records searches and commissions shoots when enough people have searched for an image that can’t be found.
To wit: a truckload of people recently queried “rollerblading dwarf.” As promised, Getty had its photographers whip out the ambient lights and hunt down a highly mobile midget.
The result is at left. And because mass consumption of “rollerblading dwarf” images is just soooo quirky, agency Think Meets Do launched a Getty-whoring Facebook group in its honour: Search for a Rollerblading Dwarf on Getty Images.
Yeah, there probably could’ve been a better name for that.
Future shoots (those likely to be repurposed as an ad campaign, anyway) include shooting a crying lobster, and a llama in high heels.
