We have 750, 000 stills in our archive, including 35 mm celluloid and digital images. We own the copyright, IPR and all marketing rights to the entire archive.
The broad subject matter of the stills collection largely tracks the same themes as above, in the video content archive.
In addition, we have a large collection of people, culture and wildlife images from Africa, Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal and Ladakh in India. We have just acquired the copyright to this collection from an Austrian-born photographer of note. The African subjects include Cheetah, Lion, Giraffes, Zebra, Hyenas, Hornbills, savannahs, Serengeti, Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros imagery. The Tibetan collection includes some stunning images of turquoise lakes set against brown plains, blue skies and dark hills. The Mongolia collection includes horsemen, snowed over plains and forests, towns, people and art. There are pilgrimages, people, towns, Potala Palace in Lhasa, jeep safaris across the Tibetan plateau, precious stones, shops, and wildlife including the rare Tibetan Antelope or Chiru, from which the fine toosh or shahtoosh shawl is made.
Similarly, last year, we acquired independent copyright to sell images from the collection of a mountaineer who climbed the sacred mountain of Kanchenjunga, in the small Indian state of Sikkim. Kanchenjunga is also the third highest mountain in the Himalaya, and thus one of the highest in the world.
We exclusively represent a large body of work from a deep sea diver cum specialized underwater filmmaker and photographer, who has been working extensively in the islands of Palau and Yap. This collection includes shipwrecks, images of seascapes, the private lives of sea fish, coral reefs, sharks, whales, manta rays, rainbow fish, octopus and a wide variety of human interest stories relating to the sea, the stone currency of Palau island, diving and sea life.
We have marketing rights to the rare and extensive stills collection of Australian Roddy Mackenzie, including his rare widescreen (using the unique Russian Widelux camera) panoramic 360 degree images from the summit of Everest, looking down to the rest of the world. He has summitted more than 40 high Himalayan peaks, and has a wide collection of high quality climbing imagery that is included in our stills collection.
We recently acquired copyright to an entire collection of stills on Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, including a winter expedition to Mt. Kanchenjunga and Mt. Nyegi Kangsang on the Indo-Chinese border. We also have rare photographs in this collection of Clouded Leopard skins being used as ornamentation on the headgear of tribal warlords and hunters in Arunachal Pradesh’s more remote tribal communities.
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