You will find them all around you: in magazines, in newspapers, on the internet, in adverts, in TV or as photographs on the walls of your favourite restaurant.
We have over 350 world class suppliers of images from all areas: stock images, news, celebrities, fashion, food, garden, portraits, paparazzi, historical photos, reports, art, music, film stills.
Avalon is one of the leading international photo libraries, delivering some of the most extensive and high-quality image collections in the world. With an archive that goes back to the earliest days of photography, we represent over 5000 contributors worldwide, capturing everything from travel, nature and wildlife, to news, entertainment and sports, as well as premium and microstock creative imagery. We are home to over 23 million images, and continually growing on a daily basis. Our comprehensive collections carry everything you’re searching for and include:
UPPA is thought to be the oldest independent picture business in the UK, dating back to the early 1900’s, and is the photography business of record for royalty, politicians and the judiciary. It also has a strong reputation for business and financial stories in the UK, EU and US. We also have our very own assignment and commissioning division, Avalon Assignment, which works with a network of photographers throughout the UK and across Europe.
Profimedia is one of the world´s largest photo agencies originated from Czech Republik that provides the licensed images taken by the world´s best photographers.
We cooperate with over 700 world-class suppliers of images from all areas: news, celebrities, fashion, paparazzi, food, garden, portraits, historical photos, art, music, film stills and stock images.
The most prestigious partners of Profimedia are for example AFP, August, Barcroft Media, Splash, Everett, Fame Flynet, Mega Agency, Magnum Photos, The New York Times, Sipa Press, TASS, Figaro, Topfoto, UPPA, Zuma Press and many others.
Company headquarters are in Pardubice, Czech Republik from here we manage the business in ten countries of Central and Southeastern European region: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, Montenegro and Bulgaria.
FORUM Polish Photography Agency was established in 1994 and currently co-operates with 950 photographers that report various cultural, social and political events that occur in Poland and throughout the world. In addition to these photographers, FORUM is partners with over 60 photography agencies all over the world. Our collection consists 20 million photographs - all available online at www.forum.com.pl
When FORUM was founded in 1994, there were no digital SLR cameras or mobile telephones available, internet speed was unbelievably slow, the standard computer had a RAM of 16MB, and the only way for photographers to submit their work was in person. We did not know then that we were only a few years from a technological evolution. In just three years we had a set up a part of our picture archives and made them available on the web. Our archives were began by the scanning of a vast number of pictures and material. During this time a myriad of photographers joined the agency and as FORUM grew more agencies sought to work with us and sentt us their photographs. The picture files became heavier and our IT department costs grew extensively.
