1xReviews of 1x.com

While 1x.com markets itself as a premier destination for "sublime" curated photography, a search through their print catalog reveals a glaring ethical issue. Searching terms like "poverty" returns thousands of stylized, high-contrast images of impoverished children and vulnerable people in developing nations, framed and monetized as luxury wall prints. What the site presents as "serene" or "contemplative" art is, in reality, the aestheticization of severe material hardship. The visual subjects—stripped of their names, dignity, and real-world context—receive zero financial benefit or agency, while photographers and platform operators profit from their lived disadvantage. In an era where contemporary photography is shifting toward accountability and ethics, 1x.com continues to host and profit from extractive "poverty tourism." Creators and buyers looking for ethical, responsible visual art should look elsewhere.

I have been a 1xPartners affiliate since 2022. My affiliate account (ID: 1163861) became inaccessible after the registered email was changed without my authorization. I immediately contacted the support team and submitted all requested verification documents, including my government ID, selfie verification, original email history, payment records, and proof of ownership of my marketing channels. Despite providing all the required evidence, my issue remains unresolved. The support responses have been slow and repetitive, and I have not received a clear resolution after multiple attempts to verify my identity. I am only asking for a fair manual review of my case and restoration of my original affiliate account. I hope 1xPartners improves its affiliate support and account recovery process for long-term partners.

They terminated my agent partner ship without any reason and when I asked they didn’t thought it important to give me an answer

He estado con esta gente desde 2012. Al principio era un sitio bonito y ordenado donde podías aprender. Después, con el paso de loa años y los sucesivos equipos, se ha convertido en un sitio degenerado, tan elitista como inútil, asi : A través de sus brechas en ciberseguridad, me han robado cientos de euros de los beneficios por ellos obtenidos a través de la venta de mis fotos en sus páginas afines. El jurado de curadores, no entiende nada de lo que ve, ni de arte ni de nada. La página es complejísima de utilizar, hasta el aburrimiento. Todos los buenos fotógrafos han migrado a 100asa.com, mucho mejor, mucho más barata y mucho menos estúpida y elitista. 1x = un sitio horrible para cualquier fotógrafo. Jamás volveré a 1x, y me quedaré siempre en 100asa.com, una página de auténtica calidad de gente racional que sabe lo que hace.

It is more or less impossible to delete your account at 1X.com once you are in and have posted photos. It must illegal. I have many times written to Rolf Stelander and 1X.com about this issue. But it is completely ignored. It must be illegal that members have no possibility to delete their account on 1X. Jan Møller Hansen

This app is totally fake fake fake don’t install plz

For consumers looking to buy a print, 1x.com is a good spot. The prices are decent, service is ok and the products are generally well-made. But for you photographers who have contributed your images, 1x.com is basically a scam. Your pictures are the only thing enabling 1x to sell their products, which is what they care about. Without you they are nothing. In return for your beautiful work, you are paid peanuts and the embarrassingly tiny payments are delayed for as long as 1x thinks they can get away with it. You are being used and actually being made to pay for it. The fine print is not easily accessible - you will have some unpleasant surprises. This is a cynical murky business model right up there with sweat shops and similar abuses. Many photographers join for reasons of ego or just to have their work online if they don't have a website. If it's worth it to you, fine. But once you've sold one of your images here for pennies, it's going to be tough to ever sell it for what it's actually worth - you are helping to cheapen photography by signing on with these people. 1x.com is a twisted modern version of film-era stock photography which is intended solely to help 1x to sell prints of other people's work, without fairly compensating them.

One star is way too generous! In March this year I decided to try and raise a bit of money for Ukraine. I shared a link to a photo of mine hosted by 1X.com, and told people that if they bought a print, any profit would be donated to a Ukranian charity. I wasn't expecting much to come of it, but it was something, I thought. I know that two of my friends saw my post on social media and bought a print, because they told me. One paid about $18, and the other bought one for $71 (plus a tidy $20 for shipping). I wondered why I hadn't received any notification from 1X.com. I checked the small print on the 1X.com website and realised that funds aren't disbursed for 3 months, so I assumed I would get a notification and payment sometime in June. I didn't really want to wait, so I emailed them on 10 March to ask if they could send me some kind of statement of account so I could transfer funds to the Ukranian charity immediately, knowing I would receive the funds owed in a few months' time. There was no response. I emailed again on 14 March and then 2 May. No reply to either email. I tweeted them. Nothing. I tried calling the number on the website (incredibly difficult to find but it's there if you search hard enough). I got through to an answerphone message in Swedish, which surprise surprise, I don't speak. Increasingly frustrated and suspicious, I had another look at the 'My Account' section on the 1X.com website and realised I'd missed something: when you log in, there is a section called 'Earnings'. It said there is $9.57 in my account. I also noticed it said funds aren't disbursed until your current account balance reaches $50. Given that the website takes 50% of sales, by my calculation there should be $44.50 or so waiting for me in my account, not $9.57. Some $35 or so is missing from my account. So, as if this company's lack of response to my attempts at contact wasn't bad enough, it is clearly withholding this money from my account without my consent, either with criminal intent, or through incompetence. I feel stupid that I didn't check the T&Cs properly in the first place and embarrassed that I have no way of knowing if anyone else has bought this print in aid of charity, and is wondering why they haven't been thanked. The least 1X.com can do - aside from replying to my emails - is to donate to charity all of the profits they have made by selling my print. I am fuming. Do not touch these people with a barge pole. I can see from other reviews that some have had difficulty deleting their 1X.com account. I plan to do so as soon as this matter is cleared up.