johnrogers

John Rogers was once one of the high flying entrepreneurs in the photo world. After coming up with the brilliant idea of scanning old photos for newspapers and splitting the rights to the digital images, Rogers was on his way to amassing one of the largest photo libraries in the world and was earning a whopping $120,000 per week selling his images on eBay.

Now his empire has come crashing down. Rogers is reportedly being sued for more than $90 million and has lost his business entirely.

As newspapers struggle to survive in this new digital media world, an Arkansas-based collector named John Rogers has quietly built the world's largest privately owned collection of photographs by paying huge sums of money for their photo archives.