Introducing StockPhotographySites.info
Whether you work in the Editorial, Creative or Corporate sectors of the media, you need to find great images to illustrate your stories, features, brochures, advertisements and websites.
Some people make their own lists, rely on Google, or else they keep on using the most prominent suppliers. That means they often miss the best opportunities.
Now there's an alternative. You can use our extensive listings to find top quality, Rights Managed (RM) and Royalty Free (RF) images. There are even some Free listings for non-pro visitors.
The full list is on the left, but in greater detail here are just some of the useful sections you'll find on StockPhotographySites.com:
News Photos
From around the world
Here you will see two sections devoted to news photography: stock images to support breaking News stories, and images to support News Features.
Access to many of the sites listed on News is intended for professionals only. For example, you'll need a password to see what's available on Press Association Images.
Other News sites are more general. Several of them are great for casual browsing, while Newscom even offers some free content.
News Features gives you direct links to well-known sources of photojournalism, such as Magnum Photos and Contact Press Images.
Also on News Features you'll find links to foreign sites such as Oculi from Australia, Moment Agency from Scandinavia, and Gazeta from Poland.
Some of the regional sites, such as Noor Images, based in Holland, carry news photos from other parts of the world as well as their own.
Quality/Boutique
Top creative shots
If you're looking for the highest quality, creative photography for editorial, advertising or corporate use, so-called "Boutique" agencies are the place to go.
For example, the Aperture collection of fine photography is one of the best-known, but there are now many others vying for business.
You can find boutique sites that specialize in quite a narrow range of imagery, such as the delightful Picdesk from Australia that carries only images of women.
Photographers themselves get together to form boutique collectives, such as Lens Modern, founded by 50 top photographers.
By using our directory you'll be able to locate images that are both striking and unusual. They may be just what you need, instead of returning to your usual sources.
Here you can try your luck with LuckyPix or taste Stock That Doesn’t Suck and other great places to fine quality photos.
Travel
Images from everywhere
Our stock photo Travel sections are among our most extensive. Remember: we're linking to agencies, many of which offer hundreds of thousands of images. Together they have billions of images from every corner of Earth.
There are two main Travel directories: Travel: World and Travel: Regional
Travel: World contains the non-specialist agencies that have images from most countries in the world. For example, Robert Harding carries RM photos from 220 countries.
Many of the libraries in Travel: Regional are no less extensive, but they tend to concentrate on specific areas of the globe.
For example, All Canada Photos brings you great images of Canada, taken by 100 photographers. Photo New Zealand does a similar job down under.
Inevitably, travel subjects overlap with those covered by our Nature, Landscape, Wildlife and Marine, Sailing, Surfing directories. And don't forget to visit Online Photo Communities for a wider choice.
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