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Business Wire

BUSINESS WIRE helps companies to disseminate their full text press releases, regulatory information and multimedia documents effectively and securely to news agencies, journalists, analysts and investors the world over.

ACN (Agencia Cubana de Noticias)

Agencia cubana de noticias (ANC, previously known as Agencia de información nacional, AIN) is the official state agency of Cuba, founded on the 21st of May of 1974. It publishes information in Spanish, English, French and Russian and also provides pictures, audio and video, thanks to its network of more than 130 journalists in Havana and across the provinces of the island.

Agência Estado

Brazil’s leading news agency has a worldwide reputation for its responsiveness and the richness of its photographic coverage.

It provides AFP with daily coverage of political, sporting, economic, cultural and environmental news stories from Brazil.

The agency also has an archive of over 25 million documents covering Brazil’s major news events.

AGIF

AGIF is the leading photo agency for sports coverage in Brazil. It is distinguished by its editorial quality and quick response time in its delivery. Based in Rio de Janeiro, AGIF relies on its network of specialized photographers who provide the most comprehensive, and indeed the best coverage of Brazilian football. No matter the competition, no matter the event, AGIF is always on the field.

Anadolu Agency

Founded in 1920 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk during the Turkish War of Independence, Anadolu Agency is the official press agency of the country. Anadolu Agency offers quality coverage of Turkish and international political, financial and sports news.

Bangkok post

Thailand’s leading English language daily has a local and overseas readership of 450,000. It is an independent newspaper targeted at the upmarket business and expatriate communities.

The paper has a reputation for impartial news and analysis and provides comprehensive generalist photo coverage of Thailand.

Biosphoto

Since 1987, Biosphoto has been the European leader in nature, environment and garden photography. They represent over 450 photographers and distribute their collections, some of the most beautiful in the world. Biosphoto is also a team of passionate scientists who have spent the last 25 years researching, documenting, selecting and distributing the most striking images of our dear planet!

BnF

Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) collects, preserves and makes known the national documentary heritage of France. Through its RetroNews offer, BnF has made available to AFP a collection of breaking news archives from the daily press, in black/white and color. These approx. 30 archives are now accessible on AFP Forum, and cover the most striking moments from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as enriching AFP’s archive catalogue.

Brazil Photo Press

Launched in 2007, Brazil Photo Press quickly became one of the most important independent photojournalist agencies in Brazil. The agency offers 24/7 coverage of the arts, leisure, the economy, international news, politics, fashion and sport, among others. Its photographers are located in all the major cities of Brazil, as well as capital cities around the world. Additionally, Brazil Photo Press relies on its local and international partners in order to cover breaking news.

BSIP

BSIP was launched in 1986, specializing in science and medicine images taken by professional photographers and illustrators. BSIP broadened its focus a couple of years ago to now offer collections of images on all the domains of science: reports, health, nature, animals, plants, the environment…

Burness Paull

Burness Paull is a commercial law firm based in Scotland, whose market-leading IP practice is ranked in the top tier of both Chambers UK and Legal 500. In recent years the firm has acted in over 70% of all actions raised in the Scottish Intellectual Property Court, raising the majority of those actions. Burness Paull is delighted to be working with AFP and PicRights to protect AFP’s copyright across the UK. 

Capgemini

With more than 125,000 people in 44 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want.

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ChristopheL

ChristopheL is one of the most important databases of archived images from the movie industry. For over 30 years they have been meticulously storing posters, stills, articles and press clippings. This collection is a unique record of French cinematography.

Cision/PR Newswire

PR Newswire, a Cision company, is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms and distribution that marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers leverage to engage key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry over 60 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimise and target content and then distribute and measure results. Combining the world's largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimisation network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire powers the stories of organisations around the world. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions. Cision is a leading global media intelligence company, serving the complete workflow of today’s communication professionals.

Controluce

Controluce agency, founded in 1991 by Valeria Tondi and Mario Laporta, has soon affirmed itself as a reference point for magazines and newspapers on the Italian and International market. Controluce has nine photographers who work in Southern Italy, other than six free-lance contributors. It covers the most important events in the southern Italy such as news, show business, sports, geographic sites, folklore, traditional festivals, politics, portraits and features.

Copyright Agent

AFP strives to protect the interests, intellectual property, and livelihoods of the contributors with whom we work, and for this purpose has mandated Copyright Agent to manage copyright compliance on our behalf.

Cultura Creative

Cultura Creative was created in 2006 by a group of photographers with a shared passion for the art of photography. The agency is specialized in illustration. Cultura Creative offers thematic collections covering science and technology, tourism and traveling, daily life and lifestyles, cooking and decoration…

Current Affairs in the Arab World

Focused on current news, the Debates on Current Affairs in the Arab World will provide the opportunity to analyze, discuss, and reflect on the latest events in the Arab world.

DPPI

DPPI is a specialized sports photo agency created in 1965. Its initial offer was for photographs around the world of auto racing, but in the 1980s started covering sports of all kinds. Today, DPPI's archives comprise over 10 million photos.

EQS Group

EQS electronically distributes full-text press releases and related information and data to the media, financial community, online databases and Internet services.

ETX Studio

The world’s first newswire dedicated to leisure and lifestyle

Eyepress

A Hong Kong-based photo agency specialised in Asia news, with a special focus on China. The agency provides access to news and magazine photographs and ready to print documentary photos.

foodcollection

foodcollection and Mood4Food’s photo galleries covering the culinary arts are now available on AFP Forum.

Over 30 000 images from the elite of food photography have been added, including shots of regional recipes, ingredients, kitchen ambiance, utensils, preparation and tasting… a huge variety of illustrations covering the world of food and beverage.

Getty Images

Getty is a global digital media provider. It produces and distributes royalty-free images, rights managed images, celebrity photos, online music and video, enabling communication professionals the world over to tell their stories.

Getty provides AFP with a comprehensive range of royalty-free images, rights managed images, news, sport and celebrity pictures along with picture archive collections.

GlobeNewswire

GlobeNewswire is one of the world's largest newswire distribution networks, specializing in the delivery of corporate press releases financial disclosures and multimedia content to the media, investment community, individual investors and the general public.

Gracenote

Gracenote is the world leader in collecting, analysing and managing sports data for every professional sport. This data is published on any platform, in any desired format and at any time. The Gracenote database contains information on results & rankings, athletes & teams and much more. We keep track of more than 300 sports and deliver both live and historical data. No other company in the world has these amounts of historical data available. Three types of services follow from this world class database: Content Services, Media Services and Analytics Services. The sports information from the database also forms the foundation of the Gracenote’ Event Services. AFP uses Gracenote data, for a deep coverage of all sport results.

Hans Lucas

Hans Lucas is a production studio dedicated to photography. Since 2006, his activity has been focused on video and multimedia production as well as the distribution of the works of 600 photographers via a collaborative platform. HL supports the emergence of contemporary writing and creates synergies across disciplinary boundaries. It is an open collective that invites authors and artists, emerging or recognized, to work together.

Hemis

A French photo agency specialised in travel pictures from all over the world. The agency’s travel and adventure pictures have made it a leader in publishing and stock photos.

Every month, the agency provides ready to publish features and unique stories on original or exotic themes covering tourism news worldwide.

Higbee & Associates

The Law Firm of Higbee & Associates is a full service copyright law firm that helps photographers and other content producers protect their intellectual property. Higbee & Associates handles copyright enforcement, including pre-litigation negotiation and litigation, for Agence France-Presse in the United States.

Image Law

AFP strives to protect the interests, intellectual property, and livelihoods of the contributors with whom we work, and for this purpose has mandated the Law Firm IMAGE LAW to pursue copyright compliance on our behalf.

Image Source

An independent agency specialised in stock photos and is a world leader in contemporary royalty-free photography.

Image Source’s collection is constantly updated with photos from shoots around the world. The agency specialises in images of daily life, lifestyle, fashion and beauty, travel and tourism, health and nutrition, science and medicine, along with business, sports and much more.

Imaginechina

A leading Chinese photo agency, it produces numerous ‘reportage’ subjects as well as extensive photo coverage of local and international news.

Based in Shanghai, it also has offices in New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Its extensive network of photographers and correspondents covers all of China’s regions and provinces.

The agency specialises in business, economics, culture and travel in China, providing pictures for advertising, publishing, corporate publications and editorial stock images.

INA

INA, the world's first audiovisual center for digital archiving and database value-creation, has conferred on AFP part of the distribution of its photographic and audiovisual archives. Photos taken during the filming of television shows in the 60s and 70s that showcase celebrities from the world of the arts, of show business, of sports and politics; videos of the first TV appearances for major personalities, moments in history, historical places, illustrative images of major economic and technological events, scenes from daily life, celebrity interviews, are all examples of relevant images that will help AFP's international clients bring further perspectives on their topics.

India Today Group

India Today is an Indian English-language weekly magazine established in 1975 by Vidya Vilas Purie.

It offers a selection of images on India-related politics, sports, business and cinema.

Leemage

Leemage specializes in historical illustrations, and offers various collections from multiple international photography banks. Archives include access to masterpieces from the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome and Greece (archaeology), the Medieval Ages (miniatures, sculptures), the Renaissance (frescoes, paintings, sculptures), the Modern Era (engravings, early print works, news press, satirical art) and the 20th Century (photographies).

Mauritius Images

Founded in 1929 in Berlin, mauritius images is Germany’s oldest and largest privately owned and independent photo agency.

Their photo library holds archive images from 1930-1940 Germany, and a large collection of stock shots illustrating travel, nature, lifestyle, people, history, food, beauty, red carpet, medical & science, and fine arts.

Mexsport

MexSport Digital, launched in 2000, is the leading photo agency covering sports news in Mexico. Today it is the official agency for Mexico's Olympic Committee (COM), the Mexico Open (tennis) and the CONCACAF. MexSport tailors its content for the media, websites and communication agencies.

MintImages

MintImages is specialized in illustrative photography and offers numerous collections on themes such as the environment, landscapes, health and well-being. This award-winning photo agency aims to portray the evolution of the planet through their socially-conscious images.

News aktuell

As a subsidiary of the dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur, News Aktuell is a distribution service provider that enables communication experts from all sectors of business to use their communication content to engage with their key audiences - in the form of texts, images, audio and video.

Notimex

A Mexican news agency reporting national and international news, with a focus on quality, accuracy and speed.

The agency has a network of more than 300 journalists, reporters, photographers, editors and correspondents.

NurPhoto

The photojournalist agency NurPhoto is focused on social awareness. It offers a large production of socially conscious and investigative images, covering all the news with an international perspective. Nurphoto presents photo reports on social issues, putting the emphasis on multicultural aspects.

Only france-only world

OnlyFrance is a stock photo agency dedicated to pictures from France. OnlyWorld offers a collection of creative and travel pictures from around the globe.

Using an extensive network of photographers, OnlyFrance and OnlyWorld collections cover culture, economics, architecture and cities, science and nature, religion and traditions, etc., as well as ready to use magazine subjects.

Paris Modes TV

Fashion, luxury, beauty

Phanie

Phanie is a photo agency dedicated to covering the world of health and medicine since 1991. Created by a team of professional photojournalists, the collection comprises photo reports, illustrations and scientific images.

Photo Alto

Photo Alto is an independent European stock photo agency, set up in 1994 by a group of photographers and graphic designers.

Dedicated collections for creative purposes are specially tailored to meet the needs of press and editorial clients. It provides an extremely wide range of pictures covering lifestyle, family, education, medicine, business, society, couples, beauty, food, environment, etc.

Photo12

A French stock photo agency offering an impressive collection of cinema, arts and historical document images, bringing together public and private picture collections to provide high-resolution images with detailed captions and precise keywords.

The agency’s cinema collection includes photos from some 15,000 internationally renowned films, from the Lumière brothers right up to the present day.

PhotoNonStop

The result of a merger of two prestigious photo agencies, DIAF and Photothèque SDP, PhotoNonStop provides industry clients with a rich selection of images to meet the needs of advertising agencies, press and publishers.

The agency’s highly diverse collections are organised by categories such as everyday life, lifestyle, travel and tourism, cookery and interiors, fashion and beauty, etc. PhotoNonStop is France’s leading independent photo agency and the leading European portal for rights-managed and royalty-free stock photography.

PhotoSport

Chile’s premier news agency specialised in sporting events, providing  daily coverage of key sports events in Chile, including motor sports, horse racing, rugby, tennis and sailing. It also provides comprehensive coverage of Chilean football, from local fixtures to coverage of all the national team’s matches, training, trips, social events, etc.

PicRights

AFP strives to protect the interests, intellectual property, and livelihoods of the contributors with whom we work, and for this purpose has mandated PicRights to manage copyright compliance on our behalf.

RMN-GRAND PALAIS

RMN is the agency of the French national and regional museums including The Louvre, Orsay and the Centre Georges Pompidou with a strong collection of art pictures.

A selection of 25 000 pictures is available.

Robert Harding

Robert Harding World Imagery is a specialist high quality stock photo and footage library founded in 1974. It covers a diverse range of subjects such as destinations, travel & tourism, people, cultures, wildlife, nature, landscapes, archaeology, architecture and the environment.

Roger-Viollet

Roger-Viollet’s historical archives are tailored to the needs of press, publishing, television and advertising. The organisation’s numerous collections cover politics, society, daily life, the arts, science, travel and portraits between the 1880s and the 1970s.

Science Photo Library

A British stock photo agency specialised in the sciences. It works directly with renowned scientists and medical experts all over the world.

Its image collections cover natural sciences and technology (computer-generated images, satellite photographs), health (models and generic images), space and the environment, animal and plant life.

Singapore Press Holdings

One of Singapore’s leading media groups, it provides wide-ranging coverage of news stories from Singapore and Asia. Its 14 daily newspapers are published in 4 languages with a circulation of over 1 million.

The photo service has been awarded numerous international prizes, including the Society for News Design (SND) award, the Asia Media Awards (organised by WAN-IFRA Asia) and the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) awards.

SOOC

SOOC is a news and feature photo agency based in Athens that was founded in 2014. Its 4 photographers offer high quality coverage of Greek news.

Sputnik

Sputnik has replaced Ria Novosti on the international stage since 2014. Its photo service was launched in 1946 by the Soviet Information Office, and captured all the major events of the USSR period: the conquest of outer space, the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway, the Chernobyl disaster and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Today the agency offers extensive daily coverage of Russian politics, sports, culture and economy.

Studio Harcourt

Cosette Harcourt, the Lacroix brothers and Robert Ricci, the son of Nina Ricci, established studio Harcourt Paris in 1934. Since then it has immortalised some of the biggest names of the 20thand 21st centuries.

The studio’s source of inspiration and its trademark is the glamorous world of black and white cinema. Studio Harcourt Paris’ unique lighting brings out the natural side of its subjects.

Still photographing the celebrities of today, it remains true to its traditions.

The Times Of India

The Times of India is an English language daily newspaper, founded in 1838 in Mumbai (then Bombay). The newspaper is the world’s largest English language daily by circulation, with more than 3 million copies. The Times of India provides daily coverage of key politics and business news from India and worldwide, as well as cricket, sport and Bollywood news, etc.

The Yomiuri Shimbun

The Yomiuri Shimbun is Japan’s largest newspaper with a daily circulation of 10 million copies.

Its photo service provides a daily selection of Japanese news items in the fields of politics, economics, sports and news topics.

Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency is the largest official news agency in the People’s Republic of China. The agency boasts a network of 10,000 journalists, based in its 144 bureaux worldwide. Thirty-three of these bureaux are in China, providing coverage from each of the country’s provinces.

Xinhua supplies daily coverage of politics, economics, sport and cultural news in China, along with numerous ‘magazine’ features on various subjects such as trades & professions, lifestyle, etc.