Corbis Images Sold by Bill Gates to Visual China Group

One of the largest photo collections in the world was just sold. Corbis, which is owned by Bill Gates, has sold off its images business to Visual China

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/01/22/corbis-images-sold-by-bill-gates-to-china-visual-group/

“The downfall for some contributing photographers, like myself, is that they owned Demotix.com, which positioned itself as breaking news stock photography,” one photographer tells PetaPixel. “When many of us went to demotix.com today, the site redirects to Corbis. Demotix appears to be gone.”