Photoshot acquires The Travel Library

Further expansion at Photoshot with the purchase of The Travel Library, a long established source of travel imagery

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Charles Taylor, managing director of Photoshot, today announced the purchase of the assets of The Travel Library Limited, the Photoshot group’s 15th acquisition.
 

Charles said, “The addition of The Travel Library and TTL-Plus to our family of collections is another significant milestone in our plan to establish Photoshot as a quality based, full service, international, photo library group. The collections perfectly compliment our existing travel and nature collections World Pictures, NHPA, Bruce Coleman, Picture Nature, Photos Horticultural and Oceans Image making us a powerhouse in this area.”

 “We are extremely excited at becoming the new custodian of this wonderful collection and will do everything possible to build on the long tradition of quality and service that The Travel Library has provided for many years. “

 “We have now bought a total of fifteen complementary photo businesses since 2001,” Charles continued, “and service customers from wholly owned offices in New York, London, and Berlin. With this growth, we are confident that we will be a leading supplier of travel and nature imagery in UK and beyond. Growth in this area fits with Photoshot’s plans to supply a broad range of quality imagery to picture buyers, be the image a live news picture, an archival record, an entertainment event or exclusive celebrity portrait, a travel shot or a wildlife image or a creative shoot. Photoshot is one of only a few agencies that can supply this mixture of live and stock imagery.”

Philip Enticknap, Managing Director of The Travel Library Limited says, “I am sure that this change of ownership will be great for The Travel Library and TTL-Plus. The market has been difficult for all agencies in the last few years, and becoming part of a bigger, more diverse group will enable the collections to compete more effectively in the future. When looking for a company to build upon the existing strengths of the Travel Library, I wanted to make sure that the new owners were a picture business committed to photographers and great photography. Photoshot has admirably demonstrated that it shares this desire with their acquisition of several other leading libraries and the way those businesses have thrived under the Photoshot umbrella.”

For further information and images, please contact Charles Taylor on 020 7421 6000 or e-mail ctaylor@photoshot.com

New partner management contact

From 1st July Colin Finlay (cfinlay@photoshot.com) is your new contact for Partner Management.

Important Changes In Channel Management Contacts

From the 1st of May 2011 there will be a number of changes in the contacts for channel management questions at Photoshot.

I have been working on a project to help Photoshot optimise the partner network and this is now complete. This means I will focus on my other business efforts from the 1st of May. Charles Taylor, Photoshots’ MD will take over partner management while Martin Ballans will take care of day to day requests like registrations, images and FTP. Please email Andrea with all your sales report questions and Paul with payment requests. You can reach them here:

• Charles: ctaylor@photoshot.com
• Martin: mballans@photoshot.com
• Andrea: aallam@photoshot.com
• plubbock@photoshot.com

While the team will keep checking my email it is advisable to change your contactlist immediately to avoid delays. It was a pleasure working with you and I am confident that Photoshots’ wide ranging and growing selection of image collections will be a great force in driving sales with your clients. If you want to say hello I will be on Cepic 2011 and you can also reach me on marco@fastmediamagazine.com

The very best of luck and I hope we get an opportunity to meet in the near future.

Best regards,

Marco Oonk

Latest Photoshot Contact List

Here are the latest contact details for the Photoshot team. You can also find a shortlist on the homepage of this blog. When in doubt please call the main number and we will point you in the right direction.

Adress

PHOTOSHOT HOLDINGS LTD

UPPA / PHOTOSHOT / LFI / NHPA / STAYSTILL / RETNA

29-31 Saffron Hill

London

EC1N 8SW

www.photoshot.com

www.retna.co.uk

www.lfi.co.uk

www.idols.co.uk

www.brucecoleman.com

www.redcover.co.uk

Contact Details

• Main number London: + 44 207 421 6000
• Main number New York: +1 646 329 6242
• Charles Taylor / Agents, Feedback&Opportunties / MD in NY +1 646 329 6242 / ctaylor@photoshot.com
• Marvin Woodyatt New York sales / mwoodyatt@photoshot.com
• Martin Ballans /  News desk, FTP and agents image queries / martin@photoshot.com
• Garry Dunn / IT&Stock Submissions / gdunn@photoshot.com
• Jo Rees / Head of sales and Red Cover / jrees@photoshot.com
• Emma Hier / Magazines, Staystill and Retna / ehier@photoshot.com
• Sophia Brothers / Magazines and Retna / sbrothers@photoshot.com
• Stefanie Mainey / Music gigs and magazine sales / smainey@photoshot.com
• Jill Little / LFI accounts&sales / jill@lfipictures.com
• David Brenes / Books&Travel / dbrenes@photoshot.com
• Graeme Atkinson / News editor / gatkinson@photoshot.com
• Ed de Sancha / LFI&Entertainment editor / ed@lfi.co.uk
• Peter Dare / Assignments / pdare@photoshot.com
• Paul Lubbock / Accounts payable / plubbock@photoshot.com
• Andrea Allam / Accounts receivable / aallam@photoshot.com
• Tracey Howells / Research / thowells@photoshot.com

Photoshot Coverage Of UK Royal Wedding

We’re please to inform you that we have secured great coverage for the UK Royal wedding that is taking place on the 29th of April. Here’s what we are doing:

1. We have access to 33 out of 36 official positions
2. We will have at least 6 of our own photographers on these positions
3. Pool pictures will cover inside shots – a lot of these pics will be duplicated as lots of organisations will have access to them eg EPA is receiving all pics
4. We will have extra editorial cover , volume of pics could be as high as 20,000
5. For joint rota positions each agency will have a unique set of pictures.
6. For solo positions they will be distributed to other people in the pool – ie duplicated
7. Content will be reaching you as quickly as the servers can handle it !

If you have any specific needs or enquiries please contact Martin Ballans (mballans@photoshot.com) who is leading the effort for this event.

Retna Collection Goes Back To Its Roots

Photoshot MD Charles Taylor announced that Retna, the company that was acquired last year will go back to its roots as a library for music images, strengthened by the music content from LFI and in parallel with Idols. Redcover will house Photoshots interior and lifestyle photography.

This is what Charles Taylor, our MD said about it:

‘To make the most of this wealth of music imagey, we have decided to take Retna back to is roots, which is something that I know many of you would love. We are going to re-focus Retna as the premier music library out there, adding in wonderful music content from LFI, and working in parallel with Idols. Its entertainment and lifestyle content will be transferred to other parts of the group.

As music libraries, Retna and Idols will sit along side Photoshot’s other collections which provide live and archival news, sport and entertainment imagery and not to mention our wonderful nature and travel collections. Red Cover will be our interiors and lifestyle brand. Now we really can give most customers a great deal, if not all, of what they want.’

Jo Rees Joins Photoshot As Head Of Direct Sales

We’re very pleased to welcome Joanne (Jo) Rees to our team. Jo has started today, monday the 21st of March and will lead the team at our headoffice in the UK as well as our German and US salesteams. Jo is well known in the industry and has a great trackrecord in leading salesteams at some of the most innovative companies in our industry. Prior to joining Photoshot Jo led the salesteam at Redcover, the company who’s assets were recently acquired by Photoshot. Before this she led the direct salesteams at Digital Vision, Imagesource and Moodboard.

We’re looking forward to working with Jo. If you have any questions you can reach her at jrees@photoshot.com or by calling our office on 02074216000.

Another Acquisition, Redcover Becomes Part Of Photoshot

Days after its acquisition of LFI/Idols, London based Photoshot has acquired Interior photography specialist Redcover. The agency had closed down late February.

Over the coming days and weeks we will be working hard to integrate the collection in the Photoshot offering. We also recognise that as a result of the closure there are a number of issues that need to be resolved and we’re very sensitive to the fact that we need to deal with these quickly. Our Photoshot MD, Charles Taylor has sent out a message to all our contributors already and this included the following statement

‘As a company, I think that Photoshot is well placed to make the plan work and to earn money for you. As a business owner, I don’t think that I have ever felt more confident that we can do well. We have broken that glass ceiling of size and scope that has claimed so many agencies as victims over the last few years. I am personally going to drive the re-positioning, and will focus on two qualities – comprehensiveness and excellence.’

We hope you bear with us during the changes and help us make Redcover a strong addition to our collections. We’re already receiving daily requests for images from our partners and are confident that there is a good future for the collection under the Photoshot umbrella.

Photoshot Acquires LFI/Idols

Photoshot has announced that it is acquiring Imvest Limited, we thought we’d share the full press release here on our blog

PRESS RELEASE

 

Charles Taylor, managing director of Photoshot, today announced the acquisition of Imvest Limited, owner of LFI and Idols, the Photoshot group’s 12^th acquisition.

Charles said, “The addition of LFI and Idols to our family of collections is another significant milestone in our plan to establish Photoshot as a quality based, full service, international, photo library group. LFI and Idols perfectly compliment our existing celebrity, music and portraiture collections, Retna, UPPA, Stay Still and Starstock making us a powerhouse in this area.”

“We are extremely excited at becoming the new custodian of these wonderful collections and will do everything possible to build on the long tradition of quality and service that LFI and Idols have provided for many years. “

“We have now bought a total of twelve complementary photo businesses since 2001,” Charles continued, “and service customers from wholly owned offices in New York, London, and Berlin. With this growth, we are confident that we will be a leading supplier of music and entertainment imagery in UK and beyond. Growth in this area fits with Photoshot’s plans to supply a broad range of quality imagery to picture buyers, be the image a live news picture, an archival record, an entertainment event or exclusive celebrity portrait, a travel shot or a wildlife image or a creative shoot. Photoshot is one of only a few agencies that can supply this mixture of live and stock imagery.”

David Jacobs, Managing Director of Imvest Limited says, “I am sure that this change of ownership will be great for LFI and Idols. The market has been difficult for all agencies in the last few years, and becoming part of a bigger, more diverse group will enable us to compete more effectively in the future. When looking for a company to build upon the existing strengths of Imvest, the previous owners wanted to make sure that they were dealing with a picture business committed to photographers and great photography. Photoshot has admirably demonstrated that it shares this desire with their acquisition of several other leading libraries and the way those businesses have thrived under the Photoshot umbrella.”

Bruce Coleman Live And Ready For Distribution

If you are a direct client on our Photoshot website you will now have access to the World renowned Bruce Coleman collection.

Photoshot acquired Bruce Coleman collection early in 2010 and we’ve spend months editing and organising it. Now that this job is done we’re proud to present over 160.000 images for usage. We have also made the collection available to our distribution partners all over the World.

It will take some time of course before the collection will be available everywhere, mainly due to the fact that we’re sending it out on Harddrives to our partners and there is a limit to how many we can handle at the same time.

So f you’re interested in representing this great collection of over 300 photographers please contact us as soon as possible as there is a lot of interest Worldwide. If we’re looking for distribution in your territory we will add you to the list and ship a drive to you when it becomes available. We will of course confirm this to you once we’re ready.

We’re very excited about this freshly edited collection and hope you feel the same way.