One and a half years ago we started 42run – a community to help photographers share their photos with the people who want them most, the runners themselves. The response and  thousands of photos we received have been amazing – charities, race organisers and runners have been enjoying the alternative source of running photography and we have been very happy seeing 42run grow almost 100 000 photo strong during over 50 running events around the UK.

The photographer community is at the heart of our service and today we are launching our BETA commercial service – a marketplace for runners and sports photographers allowing photographers to sell their photos directly to the runners. Our first gallery is Virgin London Marathon 2010 – almost 2000 photos are online already and more are being uploaded.

It is a work in progress and is in closed BETA while we are making it ready for the prime time. Sign up for our newsletter if you would like to be part of the new service and be the first to know once we start accepting more photographers.