About Corepics

Corepics is a conglomerate of professional photographers and dedicated photo-enthusiasts aiming at providing stock imagery, depicting contemporary lifestyle imagery, hinting at the archetypal and caricatural attributes of civilisation.

Corepics is a joint venture of:

• Hugo de Wolf
• Maurits Jager
• Bas Gerzon
• Laurens Poelhekke

Click our links to see our personal biography.

Corepics aims to provide stock imagery, depicting contemporary life imagery, hinting at the archetypal and caricatural attributes of civilisation. Now, we realise, that’s a mouth full, and could easily win a Bullshit Bingo. It just means we shoot widely varying themes, that are familiar to just about anyone, and we’ll mix that with a touch of humour and fun.

Our photo shoots come in three flavours:

• minishoots: 1 to 2 models, 1 photographer, 1 theme, usually no longer than 2 to 3 hours – twice a week. Example: The glasshouse
• maxishoots: 3-6 models, 2 photographers, 2 to 3 themes, 4 to 6 hours in length, once a month. For instance: The Taxi
• megashoots: 7 models or more, 3 to 4 photographers, 8 to 20 themes, duration: 7-12 hours – once every 2 months: The Meeting

Maxi and megashoots usually take place on location. . Often, themes are tested and developed as minishoot, and if successful, promoted to a reshoot as maxi – or mega shoot. Although we  prefer the “real thing”, in some situations, we use a bit of creativity to simulate settings and events, and that’s where the fun comes in – mix ingenuity, creativity and a bit of time and you’ll have the setting for a great day, with a lot of fun.

There are only two things we require from our models: Enjoying a few hours doing something out of the ordinary, and to fill in and sign our model release form. Anyone can model for us if they want to. We provide travel expences – wihin reason, of course, and our models receive free prints of the photoshoot in due time. You can always contact us, if you require more information.

The mother of all questions, of course, is why? Primarily, because we believe that it is possible to make money, have fun and learn at the same time. Stock photography is a huge marketplace, and as any marketplace, stock photography is all about trends. We do our research, and we find our niches. (did you know that the search phrase “taxi driver” only produces 94 hits on istock, with a collection of over 4.000.000 images of which only half are really relevant?) We’ll gladly occupy such niches, and have a great time doing so. We also believe that we are capable of producing great stock images in large quantities at high quality, and do so effectively, because at corepics, we believe in our individual competences and strengths.