Alamy expands range of imagery from Europe and Asia pacific
Leading stock photography portal confirms its commitment to offering culturally specific images as well as international shots
25th November 2002
Alamy Images, a leading provider of both specialist and general imagery from the world's major picture agencies and photographers, has expanded its already strong portfolio of imagery from Europe and Asia Pacific. With the addition of over 75,000 images, Alamy now extensively covers non-US material ranging from local lifestyle shots and business imagery through to indigenous wildlife.
James West, CEO of Alamy Images, commented, "Our customers outside of the US have often commented that the images they find on other image websites are often too American-focused for use in their projects. That’s why we have been actively encouraging contributors from outside the US to join Alamy, while still retaining a worldwide focus."
New contributors include:
- Dinodia Photo Library and Indiapicture - traditional and cosmopolitan Indian imagery
- Etcbild - contemporary Swedish lifestyle imagery
- Tony Cunningham - non-clichéd Dutch imagery
- Kazu - royalty-free conceptual imagery with a Japanese flavour
- Atlas Geographic - artistic and simply shot Turkish images
- Plainpicture - basic shots with a European focus from this German agency
- Christopher Gomersall - UK wildlife and birds
- Andrew Catterall and Andrew Southon - concepts and humour with a British perspective
- James Lauritz - industry and lifestyle shots from Australia
- Alex Segre - quirky images of Ibiza club culture and English culture
- Les Skeates - captures London imagery with an editorial slant
- Bikem Ekberzade and James Hawkins - worldwide imagery including life in Afghanistan and Africa
- Viewstock - images showing all aspects of Asian Culture
Existing providers from the Europe/Asia Pacific region have also expanded their collections availablet through Alamy. These contributors include Nordicphotos (Scandinavian lifestyles and landscapes), ephotocorp (Indian lifestyle, travel and business) World religions and Christine Osborne (eastern and western religious imagery, plus Middle Eastern travel), Tropicalpix (travel and surf images from Asia-Pacific and South Africa), Art Kowalsky and Jon Arnold (European travel and lifestyles), Bryan and Cherry Alexander (the Falklands and colder climates such as Greenland and Siberia), Reichhold (London travel and culture), Penny Tweedie (Aborigines) and Ami Vital (Kosovo) and Oxford Picture Library (Oxford and surrounding region).
Alamy Images has also added over 65,000 images from US contributors in the same period.