Who?


Yuri Arcurs is the world’s most successful microstock photographer.

He sells over 1,4million individual licenses per year (about 2,000 per day) and his clients include Time Magazine, MTV, Sony, MSN.com, Microsoft, Canon, Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Tyra Banks Show, Late Night Show and many more. Back in 2005 a Google search for “Yuri Arcurs” gave zero search results. Today that same search generates close to 150000 hits. His unusual success is due to a combination of unique imagery and savvy business sense.

Yuri resides in the countryside in Denmark, but also spends 3 months per year in either Hawaii, Norway or South Africa. He has been living with his partner Cecilie for five years and together they have an American Staffordshire terrier, “Maff”. Yuri Arcurs Photography inc. is located in Denmark, Scandinavia and employs a dedicated full-time staff of ten people.

Thanks to his unusual success in the relatively new realm of microstock, Yuri has attracted worldwide attendtion and has been profiled and interviewed for numerous books, magazines, blogs, newspapers and recently, the famous PDN magazine. He has also appeared in Photoshop Creative and Digital photographer. He has been dubbed “the world’s best microstock photographer” at www.photopreneur.com and was granted “Celebrity status” at www.microstockdiaries.com. Extremely dedicated when it comes to digital quality Yuri recently joined a small group of handpicked photographers officially sponsored by Hasselblad.
Yuri Arcurs in his studio taken by Joachim Ladefoged

In addition to his stock photography, Yuri creates free programs for photograhers (his keywording program has been a smash hit in the industry), writes photography tutorials and guides, is the creator of a videoblog and is a highly sought after public speaker. His popular blog attracts thousands of visitors each day. Outside of stock, he works only with projects related to charity and does not do commercial shoots any more. Yuri has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, is a former member of the Danish “special recognisance unit” (special forces), a 100km marathon runner, a personal trainer and as a staff member said… “irritatingly close to a pathological perfectionist”.

We will do a post on what equipment we work with and why very soon.

If you are Danish you can watch this pitch on Danish National News about me: Arkivbilleder er guldgrube

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Related articles and interviews: Microstock Diaries, Photopreneur, 123Rf, Jim Pickerell’s subscription blog, graphics.com, DigitalREV.com, fotopia.no, stockfotografie.de, German TV, Computerbild, Fotolia Workshop, PDN magazine, TV workshop, CrestockBlog, Vimeo, Youtube, Wizardgold.com, Pressefotografforbundet.dk, Zoom Magazine

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