Stock Photo Companies (Traditional)

A-Frame Photo

An impressive database of surf and ocean related images.

Absolute Stock Photo

Royalty-free stock site featuring photographers from around the world covering all subjects ranging from concept imagery, to classic wildlife and lifestyle photographs.

AbsolutVision

A Swiss agency composed of photographers, graphic designers and professional lithographers.

Acclaim Images

A unique collection of Rights-Managed and Royalty-Free images from Oregon.

age fotostock

age fotostock is a photo agency with offices in New York, Barcelona and Madrid, and the core of its business is licensing reproduction rights for Royalty Free and Rights Managed images. Its photographic archive, accessible over the internet, contains over two million images of an impressive range of subjects. For image research and for the acquisition of image rights visit www.agefotostock.com. 
age fotostock distributes its images in more than 90 countries through an extensive and solid network of agents that know that the warranty of age fotostock is not only a synonym of a known brand, but the prestige of distributing one of the best collections in the world.
age fotostock is a technologically advanced photographic agency, with its own means for the digitalization of the images it distributes and an efficient information technology department. The IT department constantly develops and innovates the applications necessary to warrantee an impeccable internet service that allows clients to acquire the best photography twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
age fotostock, after many years of activity, is still an independent company, Spanish, and committed to its own development basing this on generating and reinvesting its own resources.

Alamy

Alamy Images provides ′hard-to-find′ and general images from the world′s main picture agencies and photographers.

Alaska Stock Images

Alaska Stock Images is a worldwide stock photo agency specializing in stock photos from Alaska complimented by images from Antarctica and Canada. Our stock photography collection contains over 300,000 pictures from more than 150 photographers, including both royalty-free and rights-managed images. Price, purchase and download images online for nearly any commercial usage or order prints for your wall décor needs.

AllrightImages

RF by face to face agency Germany - Royalty-free stock photography

Anthroarcheart.org

Anthropology, Archeology and Art, ROYALTY-FREE DIGITAL IMAGES.

Anzenberger

A stock photo company from Vienna Austria

Arab Images Foundation

The Arab Images Foundation® is dedicated to the safeguarding of modern and contemporary visual arts in the Arab world, and has done important work in the field of civil society development by highlighting the daily life of local populations in the Middle East and North Africa. Using photography, it aims to show what usually stays out of the mainstream media′s focus. A high quality photography collection is available for direct downloads via our web site. Our i.collectors’ space offers amateurs, private collectors, and professionals the opportunity to buy and sell vintage and collection prints.

arabianEye

The aim of arabianEye is to take a fresh look at all things Arabian, Middle Eastern and Islamic; to explore these rich and diverse cultures with a perceptive and quirky gaze. Representing the work of various accomplished photographers, arabianEye seeks to combine insightful photojournalism and creative observation in a warm, accessible way. Partly an Arabic documentary and reportage feature’s library, we also now have a stock library including Arabic lifestyle and travel imagery; we hope this website provides you with enough reasons to visit us regularly and, maybe, change the way you look at the Islamic world!

Art + Commerce

A unique collection of stock photography from New York

Art Life Images

Art Life Images is a premier purveyor and editor of the best stock photography and illustration. Our dedicated sales and research ArtLifers span 20 years of experience serving a diverse and broad clientele of image patrons. Born out of commitment and opportunity, Art Life Images exists to serve our special “Lifers”, the creative artists, and their patrons to meet and succeed through the discovery of essential messages in powerful Rights-Managed and Royalty-Free images. Welcome Patrons!

Artbitz

Affordable royalty free stock art elements and stock illustration.

ARTIMAG

Artimag is on-line art of image. The new good-quality royalty-free photographic stock.

Artmill Stock Photography

Nice general Stock agency from Canada.

Asia Images Group

The first photo agency to pioneer high quality Asian content, Asia Images specialize in creating, distributing, and licensing locally relevant Asian model-released lifestyle and business images. Their image collections reflect the visual trends, styles and issues that are current in Asia, home of the world′s fastest growing economies.

BananaStock

A Royalty-Free (RF) producer from the U.K. now owned by Jupiter Images.

Barcroft Media

A stock agency from London specializing in editorial images

Beateworks

A specialty collection of Architecture images.

Big Cheese Photo

A small but great collection of Royalty Free lifestyle images with a touch of humor.

Black Star

A stock photo company representing the work of many award winning photojournalists.

Blue Jean Images

Blue Jean is a production company and specialty royalty-free brand based out of Beijing, China, focused on the creation and distribution of best in locally relevant and globally salable Chinese imagery.

BlueMoon Stock Images

A stock agency from California specializing in Senior lifestyle images.

Brand X

One of the brands offered by PictureArts.

Bridgeman Art Library

One of the worlds largest sources of fine art images.

Cartoonbank.com

A Condé Nast site offering New Yorker Cartoons for licensing and Cartoon related products.

CD BANK

CD BANK is a source for RF & RP stock photography, illustration and footage. Our extensive and always expanding online collection makes choice easy with over 600,000 idea-inspiring images available for review. CD BANK offers English and Hebrew searching.

CDIslands

A small agency specalizing in tropical island pictures.

Celtiber

Stock photo agency featuring stock photos of Spain and Portugal. Our website lets our visitors browse our Portugal and Spain images to their hearts? content. The photos can be licensed for a variety of usages in no more than five minutes. The hi-res files of the licensed photos are available for instant download. Besides, our visitors can easily order prints of their favourites photos of our archive.

Christianphotos.net

A resource for christian webmasters and designers. All high resolution photos can be utilized freely for christian purposes.

Christie′s Images

Christie’s Images is the picture library for the world famous auction house. They offer a unique collection of fine and decorative art images.

Comstock

A Royalty Free producer now owned by Jupiter Media.

Condé Nast Art

A Condé Nast site offering prints of magazine covers and and other Condé Nast art related products.

Content Mine International

A German agency with millions of pictures offered for editorial use.

Corbis

Corbis claims to be the world’s preeminent visual solutions provider.

Crash PA

Crash PA, the Motorsport Picture Agency of the Crash Media Group in the UK.

Creatas

Stock Photo retailer now owned by Jupiter Images

Cubo Images

A new photo agency located in Milan, Italy, dedicated entirely to every aspect of Italian life style, food, territory, and tradition.

Custom Medical Stock Photo

CMSP.com is a collection of contemporary, hi-tech and historical imagery that encompasses images from the tissues & cells of a body to the bacteria and viruses that invade us to images of physicians, administrators, nurses and researchers.  CMSP has both RF & RM collections with ecommerce, purchase orders online and live help during business hours.
Services include free research, studio on site and
microscopy service on site.

Cut and Deal

A collection from the UK specializing in royalty free gambling and gaming images.

Dan′s Cartoons

Interesting site offering the cartoons of Dan Rosandich.

DEFD

A german agency offering “Entertainment” and “Lifestyle” stock photography

Desert Dolphin

A nice site from from the greater metropolitan area of Durango Colorado. The images are for the most part unique.

Design Pics

A nice collection of Royalty Free images from Canada with a great selection of religious images.

Digital Light Source

Rights Managed stock photo agency with advanced website features for today′s photo researchers and editors.  40+ photographers and 15000+ images covering travel, nature, lifestyle, education, art photography.

Digital Vision

Great producer of Royalty Free lifestyle images. Now owned by Getty.

DIOMEDIA

Based in London, UK with offices in Central & Eastern Europe, DIOMEDIA is an online supplier of digitised media content: photography, illustration, video & audio.

DK Images

A collection of images from the UK publisher Dorland Kindersley.

DK Stock

A great collection of images specializing in realistic African American lifestyle images of the Black Diaspora.

Doctor Stock

A specialty agency from Boston focused on Rights-Managed images for the medical industry.

EarthWater Stock Photography

Small stock photo company from Virgina Beach, VA.

Ecoscene

Environmental specialist covering all aspects of the environment including global warming, water and energy issues, air pollution, farming, sustainable development, recycling and wildlife under threat.

Empics

A British agency specializing in editorial images. Has a nice collection of vintage photos.

Epictura Stock Photography

Stock image company from France offering Royalty-Free images and CD′s.

ESTHETYS

Royalty free stock photography that gives you a different perspective..

Esto Photographics Inc

A specialty collection focused on architecture images.

Ewastock Interiors Archive

A new searchable website with over 50,000 licensed and royalty-free images from the library′s unique collection of interiors, home interest, architectural, craft, DIY, garden, scenic and travel photography, with more uploaded regularly. A selection of feature stories, with text and images, can also be browsed online.

EyePress

An editorial agency offering photojournalism from Asia.

Eyevine

Eyevine works with photographers to bring their collections online, it is located at a major London film studio.

Fabfoodpix.com

A high quality food stock photo library and food photographic studio. Food stylists and state-of-the-art digital imaging available in custom-built studio facilities.

Fashion Stock

Fashion Stock Offers Fashion and runway images.

FeaturePics

FeaturePics is a site for buying and selling Stock Photos, and giving recognition to the excellent group of FeaturePics Photographers. Find a collection of stock images, download royalty free stock photography. Sell your photos and images at your own prices.

Flash Video Loops

Inovartis is the world’s leading creator and distributor of Flash Video content and the first place creative professionals turn to discover and purchase Flash Video Loops.  The main objective of Inovartis is to offer designers and developers from around the world Flash Video Loops enabling them to exceed the highest standards of the new media industry.

Flat Earth

Royalty Free library that specializes in travel images

Food Features Photo Library

Food and drink photography from the UK′s leading stock food pix library

FoodPix

Food images from PictureArts

FotoSearch

Foto Search Stock Photography offers more than 900 thousand world-class photos and images to search from.

FStop Images

A very creative collection of RF images submitted by Graphic Designers.

FutureStock

Royalty Free Stock Images, Wide-Format Printing, and Custom Trade Show Exhibit Displays.<>

Gallery Stock Limited

One of the most exclusive collections of beautiful stock images from a stable of top-notch artists.

Getty Images

Getty Images is the leading provider of imagery and film to communications professionals around the world<>

Glasshouse Images

Glasshouse Images is a boutique stock photo and representation agency. We cater to a select group of group of creatives who are always on the lookout for distinctive and exceptional imagery. We emphasize quality over quantity.

Goodshoot

Royalty Free lifestyle and travel images from France.

GP 7/24

We are the image bank in Turkey providing on line search service, online purchase and immediate high resolution download option. Images can be searched by our customers via Turkish and English keywords.

Gulf Images

The gulfimages.com website contains the largest archive of ARAB IMAGES with an extensive collection of high-quality, model released, royalty-free and rights-managed imagery depicting business, lifestyles, travel of the GCC region.

We also provide creative and marketing professionals with tailor-made image libraries and a team of professional photographers & production facilities.

Hachette Filipacchi Photo

The Groupe Hachette Filipacchi Photo (GHFP) is a European source for professional images from internationally renowned agencies.

Halo Images

Halo Images takes a fine art approach to commercial concepts, featuring images created using alternative techniques, a diverse collection of textures and backgrounds and the ability to search by concept, technique and keywords. Rights Managed

Hutchison Picture Library

A unique archive of world cultures, everything from Amazonian jungle to the heart of Zimbabwe.

Iconica

One of the collections from Amana.

Image by Request

Looking for the perfect image? Post your request with us and let photographers bid on the opportunity to supply your picture, art work or custom photography exactly the way you want it. Image By Request - the auction marketplace for photos and images.

Image Farm

A small agency from Calgary Canada

Image Select

Imageselect is an online distributor of Royalty Free imagery with more than 30 collections.

Image Source

A very good collection of royalty Free lifestyle images from the UK.

Image100

Royalty Free Stock Photography

ImageDJ

ImageDJ has published over 12 self-branded photography collections that cover 316 different subjects and distributes over 25 RF and 4 RM collections.

Images.com

A nice source for Stock illustrations and unique photos.

Imagestate

A nice resource for general Stock Images.

Incredible Features

Featuring the editorial images of Jeffrey R. Werner.

Index Stock Imagery, Inc.

New York-based Index Stock Imagery, Inc., is a leading source of photographs, illustrations, and digital images.

Inmagine

A Royalty-Free reseller with a deep collection to offer.

Inspirestock

Created from pure sources of inspiration, the Inspirestock collection comprises an immense collection of exclusive images like no other. With creative contents which exude a sense of avant-gardism and excellence, images under the Inspirestock label are stylized based on contemporary trends that very much cater to the rising demands of advertising agencies, graphic design firms and corporate businesses; offering a vast choice and diversity.

IPNStock

a nice source for images from independent artists.

IPS

Japanese Stock Photo Agency

Israelimages - Israel′s Picture Collection

Israel′s top picture collection on the web. Thousands of searchable pictures about every aspect of life on Israel as photographed by the country′s leading professionals. New pictures are uploaded every day, servicing publishers and graphic designers from around the world.

izmostock

The most comprehensive car stock photo agency, izmostock, offers a photo collection of every automobile make and model available on USA consumer market. All stock photographs are professional studio quality high resolution images with clipping paths included, for easy removal from the background.

Jackson Hole Stock Agency

The Jackson Hole Stock Photography Agency specializes in stock photography images of mountain lifestyles in the western U.S.

Jewish Stock Photos

A huge assortment of Jewish-themed Royalty Free stock photographs.

Jim Batty Image Library (UK)

Local specialist in London and River Thames - travel icons, shopping, Docklands and City, quirky street shots, narrowboats and canal craft, village England. Commissions available.

John Birdsall Social Issues Photolibrary

Multicultural Britain today: real people, positive images.

Specialists in model released pictures that reflect multiracial and multicultural Britain today. The collection explores contemporary issues, including many positive images of people from minorities and disadvantaged groups, in a social documentary style. Our photos show ordinary people in their everyday lives: children, young people and families, education, health and the NHS, disability, older people, housing and homelessness, the environment and work. We have a fully searchable web catalogue with download facilities available. Commissions are welcomed - studio or location, home or abroad.

JupiterImages

JupiterImages offers a powerful collection of premium digital image brands, giving you one-stop access for all your stock photography needs.

kapaimages

Greek image bank offering photos and images in the following categories: Animals, Buildings, Portraits, Cars, Motors, Still Life, Sports, Greece, Greek Landscape, City, and Food and Drink.

KeenImages Stock Photography

KeenImages Stock Photography

Kursiv

Swiss quality distributor covering over 30 different collections of royalty-free and rights-managed photos and illustrations, including a number of subscription-collections.

Lonely Planet Images

The Digital image library of Lonely Planet Publications. Publishers of the world′s best guidebooks for independent travellers.

LOOK Photography

LOOK Photography is dedicated to producing breakthrough visuals, bold, vigorous, mighty visuals. Images that come out swinging! Images with stamina! Images that convince!

M-dash

M-dash is situated in the heart of Robin Hood country and we have made stock images of Nottingham a speciality.

We have images of Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood, Nottingham′s modern features and historical sites such as Wollaton Hall, Newstead and Rufford Abbeys and of course the Castle.

There are sporting images of the Robin Hood Marathon, Nottingham basketball and sailing.

Magnum Photos

Editorial Agency best known for representing many celebrity photojournalists including Cartier-Bresson.

MAGROUND

MAGROUND is a picture agency for landscape-, urban- and background photography. The high resolution image material is optimized specifically for the use in advertising and CGI. The range of international locations includes multi-perspective photography as well as GPS-supported specifications of location, which make it possible to use the archive also for location scouting.

Map Resources

A nice resource to license map images.

Masterfile

Masterfile is a Stock Image Agency/Library based in NYC.

Matton Images

A nice Royalty Free reseller with many international brands.

MaXx Images

A general stock photo agency based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, offering RF and RM as well as a strong collection of images of Western Canada and the Vancouver area.

Media Bakery

With over a million creative royalty free products, Media Bakery is one of the largest providers of unrestricted visual and audio content. We serve creative businesses around the world including the design community, the broadcast and non-broadcast community, as well as movie-making and independent digital artists worldwide. We help creatives, graphic designers, art directors and buyers, directors, and producers - big and small - succeed every day by providing 24-hour access to our collection of royalty free products.

Mediscan

Mediscan provides medical media to the home user, publisher or professional. Their collection consists of over 1 million images and 2,000 hours of broadcast quality film footage.

Whether you are looking for pictures of commonplace medical conditions, anatomy, procedures, equipment, personnel or PR shots Mediscan′s highly trained medical photographers can assist you.

Minden Pictures

Minden Pictures is a California-based photo agency representing world-class imagery of wildlife, nature and environmental subjects by the best photographers in the business.

mylife photos

mylife photos is a different kind of royalty-free company. Our CDs are unique in that they focus on one or two individuals and his or her lifestyle. And the subjects include titles that are as diverse as the early years of childhood to a graduate student tri-athlete to a young woman′s life in Bombay. Nothing artificial here!

myLoupe.com

Providing high quality Royalty Free and Rights Managed images. Easy to use online searchable database, lightboxes, free comps, and free research assistance. Thousands of new images being added weekly.

North Wind Picture Archive

A histrorical archive including an excellent collection of historical illustrations.

Omni-Photo Communications

Established in 1979, Omni represents the works of a diverse and creative group of photographers and artists. 

Omni′s library consists of over 100,000 rights protected images suitable for both editorial and advertising.

OnAsia

OnAsia offers instant access to 80,000 hi-res images created by the region′s top photographers. From gritty photojournalism to sleek stock imagery and fascinating features, OnAsia describes this vast region in pictures.

Outdoor Archiv

Hamburg-based specialist picture agency offering images depicting adventure, the wilderness and the longing to travel.
In Outdoor-Archiv′s archives you will find a range of images of the outdoors, sports and leisure active time, ranging from specific climbing, hiking, wintersports, biking canoeing photos to more general landscapes and travel images.

Oxford Scientific

A photographic archive concentrated on the world of science and nature.

Pacific Stock

PACIFIC STOCK was established in 1987 as the only stock photography agency worldwide that specializes "exclusively" in Hawaii, the Pacific and Asia Regions. Their image collection is composed of over 150,000 tightly edited transparencies representing the work of 50 professional photographers who regularly travel the Pacific Rim.
The Geographic Areas they represent include: Hawaii, Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zealand, China, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and other countries in South East Asia. We also offer imagery from Western U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Central and South Americas.

Their files contain a variety of Subjects including: Travel, Scenics, Culture, Model Released People, Sports, Underwater, Marine Science, Business and Industry, Food and Hawaiian Archival imagery.

Panoramic Images

Providers of large-format/wide-screen format stock photography. Their collection of nearly 250,000 images, includes 6x17′s, XPans, 360º rotationals of skylines, scenics and international destinations.

Photo Agency Cartina

High quality nature photography mainly from Scandinavian…

Photo Resource Hawaii

In-depth files of the Hawaiian Islands and the Pacific region. Specializing in culture and environment of Hawaii, including hula, rare and endangered birds/plants, archaeological sites, crafts. Extensive coverage of Kilauea, the world′s most active volcano, underwater scenics with sea turtles and divers, people, both local or tourists, of many diverse ethnic backgrounds. Great outdoor adventure coverage, backgrounds of sky, ocean, plants, rainbows.

PhotoAlto

Founded in 1994, PhotoAlto works with a group of independent photographers to produce and create Royalty Free images with a distinctive edge.

photolibrary

A global affiliation of diverse image libraries from Europe, Asia and the South Pacific offering a wide selection of Rights Managed and Royalty Free imagery.

PhotosIndia.com

PhotosIndia.com - India′s finest stock photo agency to provide Indian content for the global market place. Royalty free stock photography and uniquely India Collection.

Phototime China

The largest imagestock of original commercial images in China, covering China landscape, city, lifestyle, oriental contents, business conceptual, and so on. Representing thousands of contributors and serving both advertising and editorial industries.

PictureNature

PictureNature is an independent photo agency based in Scotland specialising in nature and human interaction with the environment. Our contemporary images are supplied by amateur and professional photographers around the world and are available as rights-managed licenses. They can be purchased and downloaded from our new website that uses the latest technology. Our pricing model is based on the new industry standard PLUS. Images are being added to our collection regularly after they have passed our artistic and technical standards.
If you are looking for something unique for your project, contact us for a professional and personal service.

PictureQuest

PictureQuest is one of the largest online stock photo portals offering both rights-managed and royalty-free stock photography from the world′s leading photo agencies.

Retna

Retna was established in 1978 by photographer Michael Putland and is one of the largest independent photo agencies in the world. The collection includes celebrity, music, stock/lifestyle, fashion and event photography from 1850 - present day and is available for licensing by professional picture buyers.

Rex Features USA

An independent photo agency which provides a daily service of celebrity, news and feature images.

RIA Novosti Photo Library

RIA Novosti Photo Library - founded in the 1940s - is an excellent "one-stop-shop" for material on Russia and the former Soviet Union. It is a picture archive of all aspects of Russian and Soviet history and experience. Main subjects include: personalities (historic, political, cultural and foreign); the arts; space exploration; World War Two; military; geography; Russia today. Growing digital collection - research currently being done in-house. Web-based English-language search available in 2006.

Robert Harding Picture Library

A Rights Managed and Royalty Free stock photo agency representing over 600 international photographers as well as many global agencies and covering all general categories of stock image subjects.

Robertstock

A general agency with a special collection of vintage and historical imagery.

Royalty Free Food & Beverage Images

Royalty Free Stock Food Beverage and Still Life Photography from Gerry Zanetti

Science Faction

The global leader in science and technology imagery.

Science Photo Library

Independent and privately owned Science Photo Library (SPL) is the world′s leading provider of science images. SPL is renowned for the quality of its image bank created by photographers, illustrators, scientists and medical specialists.

Specialities: Health, Medicine and Lifestyle; Flowers, Plants and Gardens; Nature, Wildlife and Environment; Science, Technology and Industry; Space exploration, Astronomy and Satellite imagenary; History of Science and Medicine.

Sodapix Picture Agency

Sodapix, the Swiss stock agency based in Zurich, offers commercial, editorial and press images. The Specials: A brand called “SodaStyle”, which is a collection of pictures in a different, modern visual imagery.

Sozaijiten images

Sozaijiten images has provided creative professionals with stock photos and foto download service for printing or digital advertising media. The website will renew drastically its design and photo search system as “imagenavi.com” soon.
Imagenavi.com will be managed by Datacraft Co.,Ltd.,which is the Japanese leading digital stock foto provider company in Japan.

Stock that doesn’t suck

stockthatdoesntsuck presents only the highest quality photography from some of the world′s most respected and and award winning photographers.

StockTrek Images

Stunning royalty free images of earth, space and military.

Superstock

A general RF and RM agency with special collections featuring images of fine art and vintage stock images.

TongRo

RF Stock Image Company.
Photoleader Series and Green series.

Transtock

The world′s largest stock agency specializing exclusively in transportation imagery. If it rolls, flies or floats we′ve got it!

Travelstock 44

Travelstock 44 Agency supplies professional Stock Photography for advertising, corporate and editorial use. Main subjects are Architecture, Berlin photos , Business, Cityscapes, Calendar pictures , Landscape , Panoramic images and worldwide Travel.

TropicalPictures.net

Royalty Free Digital Stock Photography. Tropical island and beach pictures, scenic and underwater photos from around the world, instant downloads.

UpperCut Images

A Production company launched by industry veterans Miles Gerstein and Ben Winters with a focus on high-end RF and RM imagery offered through worldwide distribution channels.

VIEW Pictures Ltd

Photo library specialising in modern architecture and interiors.

Visuals Unlimited

Visuals Unlimited is a leading provider of scientific and healthcare imagery.  Our extensive scientific collection covers current medical issues, microscopic imagery, agriculture, geology, and many other scientific topics.  We represent the finest microscopic photographers in the world in addition to illustrators, medical photographers and other award winning nature photographers.
Specialties, Science, Healthcare and Medicine, Biology, Microscopy, Diseases, Viruses, Bacteria, Pathogens, Anatomy, Biomedical Illustration

workbookstock

An online provider of high-end, rights-managed stock images and royalty-free photography to art buyers.

YellowPagePics.com

YellowPagePics is a quality stock photography agency that provides the yellow page industry with category-specific images. We recognize that yellow page advertising is unique in its’ style and requirements for both print and web usage. Our extensive library has been designed specifically to fulfill those prerequisites.