Citizen Stock

Add a dose of reality to your cache of stock images with Citizen Stock, a new library of rights-managed photography that is free of suspiciously attractive professional models. Husband-and-wife team David Katzenstein and Sherrie Nickol, both commercial photographers, founded Citizen Stock to build a library of images of real people, from chefs and artists to skateboarders and grandpas. "We noticed through extensive research that there was a need for high caliber imagery that also had a more real-life sensibility," says Katzenstein, who has marshalled people of all shapes, sizes, and colors into his Manhattan photo studio and posed them against a pure white background. "Our favorite images usually have a great story connected to them," he adds. "In general, the people we photograph are fascinating, and our goal is to bring out their true character."