Alamy Images expands lifestyle portfolio with gritty real-life material
Continues to offer refreshing alternative to posed stock shots
14th May 2003
Alamy Images,a leading provider of both specialist and general imagery from the world's major picture agencies and photographers, has recently released thousands of new, highly realistic lifestyle shots in response to a demand from its customers for less American-style and more 'slice of real life' material.
James West, CEO of Alamy Images, commented, "Designers have been coming to Alamy for some time because they know we carry highly realistic, locally appropriate material as well as images from the big US brands. As the trend for reportage-style advertising material grows, we have responded by adding providers whose work looks the part and is also model released. As with a lot of our images, much of this new material is not available online anywhere else."
New 'real life' contributors include:
- Matt Harris - offers model-released black and white and colour shots of UK children
- Tom Kidd - quirky Scottish images, such as people waiting for buses in the midst of the Scottish Highlands
- Alex Segre - quirky images of Ibiza club culture and English culture
- Bob Jones - highly realistic gay lifestyle shots
- Janine Wiedel - socially motivated reportage style shots with model releases
- Sally and Richard Greenhill - documentary-style lifestyle and educational shots with a real UK flavour
- Jason Horowitz - really unusual 'soap style' pictures
- Jonathan Kern - general UK lifestyles
- Peter Mumford - realistic family and people shots
- Gianni Muratore - reportage style shots
- Colin Hawkins - more UK lifestyles and concepts
These images are only a subsection of the 54,000 + images that Alamy added to its collection last month, and that also span contemporary and archival medical imagery, politics, recreational sports, specialist travel, interior design/gardening, food, animals and wildlife, as well as business and finance concepts.