founded 2012 founder yuri arcurs headquarters cape town south africa website www.peopleimages.com peopleimages is a stock photography agency based in cape town south africa . it was created by stock photographer yuri arcurs to showcase people in their diverse lifestyles and launched in may 2012 . 1 in 2011 the site was selling two million photographs a year . 2 3 in january 2015 the site had over 300 000 images of which 80 000 were exclusive to peopleimages.com and istock.com . more than half of the images were less than 2 years old which has contributed to the success of this collection and the site is used by press and television services . 4 5 every three years peopleimages invests in a photographer academy where ten aspiring photographers from around the world are offered a 36 month training program after having passed through an initial boot camp designed to test their endurance skills and willpower . these students are then coached by arcurs and receive training in all aspects of the photographic industry . once they have graduated they are contracted as independent contributors and coached to build their businesses successfully . 3 references edit yuri arcurs home of the world s top selling microstock photographer . interview with microstock photographer yuri arcurs . petapixel . a b an interview with the world s top selling microstock photographer . hunch mag . about us peopleimages . yuri arcurs launches peopleimages.com the ultimate direct sales website . microstock diaries . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title peopleimages & oldid 670069292 categories stock photographycompanies established in 2012companies based in cape townhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 july 2015 at 16 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view