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The Magnum Photos library is a living archive updated daily with new work from across the globe. The library houses all the work produced by Magnum photographers and some special collections by non-members. There are approximately one million photographs in both print and transparency in the physical library, with 350,000 images available online.

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CPi è leader negli Stati Uniti e ha un altissimo profilo a livello internazionale. Fra i fotografi rappresentati, che con le loro immagini sono presenti nelle pagine dei giornali più prestigiosi del mondo, troviamo Norman Jean Roy, Terry Richardson, Platon, Matt Jones,Nigel Parry, Markus Klinko & Indrani, Veronique Vial, Robert Maxwell, Jake Chessum, Robert Ascroft.

Science Photo Library (SPL) provides creative professionals with striking specialist imagery, unrivalled in quality and accurate in captioning. We have more than 250,000 images to choose from, with hundreds of new images being uploaded to the website each week.

Camera Press is both a major production agency and a comprehensive photo library, offering an archive of 12 million images and a constant supply of great new portraiture and a wide range of daily images from the world's of music, travel, news and celebrity.
Camera Press is proud to be at the forefront of the picture agency business whilst continuing to maintain the high tradition of excellence set by Tom Blau more than 60 years ago.

Everett collection includes stills, backstage images, but also portraits, postcards and posters. The collection covers the history of cinema from its very beginning to the latest productions.
Everett also offers thematic selections on stars’ new trends and fashion.

Redux’s archive offers a rich collection of images on the events that left their mark on the last decades, the most significant stories and their protagonists’ portraits. Essential tool for investigations on the American reality, Redux’s archive offers images on a wide range of subjects as well: the latest events, people in the news, travel features. Among the best Redux’s photographers: Nina Berman, Mark Peterson, Ben Baker, Q. Sakamaki, Mark Leong, Nathaniel Welch.

The archive contains over fifty thousands images covering fashion, celebrity, beauty, lifestyle, still life, design, architecture and travel. Hundreds of new images are added to the archive each week as the agency continues its mission to make extraordinary, and in many cases previously unseen, art available to clients.

Laif can offer creative people in all fields millions of pictures for research and production. The variety of styles and themes is truly stunning: travel, national and international politics, economics, science, medicine, lifestyle, food & drinks, sports and leisure, wellness, portraits and nature. Their database, containing almost 500,000 digital images, is regularly updated.

Both single images or features can be searched through the search engine database, adjusting date, location, photographer’s name. It’s also possible to limit the search to top or odd pictures.

Gamma Rapho, a leading European source of images, offers media professionals unique access to the production of internationally renowned agencies, to exceptional collections and talented recognised photographers.
Through a unique web portal, Gamma Rapho provides you immediate access to the production and the collections of its related agencies: Gamma, Rapho, Hoa-qui, Jacana, Explorer, Keystone, Stills.

Album is a picture library specialised in cinema. Featuring over a million of documents, it covers the entire history of cinema from its invention in 1895 until the most recent productions. The collection includes film stills, portraits, behind the scenes images, posters and off-stage photographs of the stars.

Anzenberger offers a wide range of reportages: travel and nature, sport and folklore, environment and architecture, with more than 2000 photos & text features and 800.000 stock images.
Their constantly growing digital picture library, also accessible with an APIS Browser, offers about 150.000 images.

Arabianeye’s archive offers a wide range of subjects. The editorial features describe the reality of the Arab world. The stock material focuses on fashion, habits, places, people, food that distinguish this area of the world.

Hollandse Hoogte has an online website with 5.000.000 images, originating not only from their own photographers but also from many famous picture agencies around the world, including Contrasto, Magnum, Redux and Laif.

4see’s archive proposes several features on Countries, social issues, trends, carried out all over the world, from Taiwan to Venezuela. Along with these 4see offers a particular glance on Portugal.
Single images can be searched through the search engine on the database.

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Askimages offers a rich collection of images on a vast range of themes: adventure, animals, architecture, arts, daily life, festivals, nature and environment, people, religion, travel.

The website at augustimage.com works with unparalleled simplicity and speed and showcases some of the most high profile personalities in the world, with more subjects added daily.
AUGUST is proud to represent the works of Martin Schoeller, Sheryl Nields, Nino Munoz, Jill Greenberg ,Brian Bowen Smith, Mark Zibert, Art Streiber.

Age Fotostock brings together carefully edited work supplied by over 1,300 international photographers, making it one of the most comprehensive RM collections in the world.

Imaginechina is the biggest Press agency in China.
Its archive contains more than 5 million images, accessible through the sections News, Business & Finance, Sport, Animals, Life & Fun, Entertainment, Art & Culture, People. The archive is updated every day with tens of new pictures.
More than 150 photographers based in each district of the country work for the agency.

IPApress.com allows access to different channels: Current events (political, cultural and sports events, celebrities, etc.); economy (the economic current events in detail); features (travel, fashion, author’s exhibitions); thousand of stock images.

Lebrecht’s thousands images focus especially on music: from classical to rock, from ballet to opera, jazz and musical. In addition the archive offers a wide range of images on historic personality and places, intellectuals and artists’ portraits, illustrations and caricatures. Furthermore Lebrecht detains many rare and exclusive pictures, authenticated by expert consultants.

The archive contains works by 3000 artists and portraits of over 1900 historical personalities. All photographs are © copyright by Erich Lessing, who continues to add to the collection

The images of Luna aim to raise awareness of various issues regarding our society. They cover social exclusion, health issues, sport, modern life, consumerism and alternative movements. These stories were collected in different countries in Europe and worldwide.

Images of current events, in-depth features or illustrative pictures; all are put on-line in real time, minutes after they are created by Rea’s photographers. HighTech, Heavy Industries, Politics, Environment, Finance, Transportation, Social Issues, Medicine: these are just part of the subjects covered.

NPL collection is specially strong in animal portraits and behaviour but also includes landscapes and travel, plants, tribal peoples and images illustrating environmental issues. All images have been digitally captured to the very highest standard.

Redcover is an image library specialised in interiors, lifestyle, gardens and food.
Single images, complete stories and themed mood collections have been captured by the prestigious photographers in the UK and abroad.R

Uppercut images royalty free is 15.000 compelling, market-savvy images shot by some of the best photographers in the business. UpperCut images are tailor-made for contemporary advertising, design, and corporate use.

adoc-photos provides high quality images from various private collection dedicated to the historical photographs. It is the world exclusive representative for the estate of the French photographer Roger Pic. It is also distributed the archive of contemporary photographers who focused on portrait.

Old Visuals offers an expressive range of emotions, concepts, lively situations.
Interesting, beautiful faces and artistically retouched. Scanned at high quality at 50mb each.

Kontinent’s ambition is to provide stories on interesting issues in all areas – life, society, culture and conflicts.
Their aim has always been to serve as a platform for ideas, a place where talented and committed Photojournalists meet and evolve in their profession.

Document Iran Images provides the latest news, features and stock images from Iran and about Iranians.
Document Iran is committed to become Iran's main photography source and an historic archive for generations.

image|trust offer single shots, complete coverages in picture and text as well as audiovisual presentations. Beyond that, the agency imparts know-how around photography and picture marketing and organise photo- and AV-productions according to our client’s specifications.

With over 14,000 superb images, searchable by globally recognised botanical names, common names or concepts and descriptive keywords, Flowerphotos is a unique resource of natural imagery from some of the world’s most skilled photographers. It includes flowers, plants, fruit and vegetables, healing and culinary herbs and many nature-inspired ideas.

Ciel et Espace Photos is a French agency specialized in astronomy, universe, space, earth, solar system, sky observation.
With 13,000 digital files and about 50,000 either slides or prints, Ciel et Espace Photos answers all requests concerning Galaxies, Nebulae, Moon, Mars.

Scanpix produces a creative lifestyle collection with 90 of Sweden’s top photographers, called Scanpix Bildhuset. It is a collection of 25.000 model released, Scandinavian style lifestyle images, all of them suitable for larger formats.

eyevine specialises in editorial images covering news, reportage features, and portraits of not only celebrities but also artists, politicians, writers, designers and anyone else that may be in the public eye.

Writer Pictures was set up in Britain in 2004 to supply good quality images of authors to UK newspapers, magazines and publishers. It is the most complete collection of literary portraits in the UK and possibly the world.
In the years since its launch Writer Pictures has built a large database of tens of thousands of author images and the collection is growing rapidly.