The latest coverage from the red carpet, film, music and fashion now at Corbis
London, UK, June 10, 2009. Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, and Retna today announced a new agreement to make Retna’s celebrity and entertainment photography available through Corbis.
With the new partnership, Corbis is in the process of adding 250,000 images from the Retna archive and will be adding thousands more of the freshest images every week from Retna’s comprehensive red carpet and breaking news entertainment coverage.
“Retna has incredibly talented photographers with access to all the big name premiers, concerts, festivals and other celebrity events,” said Anil Ramchand, Director, News, Sports and Entertainment, Corbis. “Corbis now provides these photographers with unparalleled global distribution, and the news media will now have easy access to the latest and greatest in celebrity photography like never before at Corbis.”
Retna is one of the largest independent photo agencies in the world. The collection includes celebrity, music, stock/lifestyle, fashion and event photography from 1850 to present day and is available for licensing by professional picture buyers.
“This partnership allows us to have a strong, trusted partner to distribute the highly valued work of our photographers to customers around the world,” said Jessica Daly, CEO, Retna. “Our world-class photographers are now truly on the global stage themselves.”
Corbis offers some of the world’s best celebrity photography through its Corbis Outline and Corbis Entertainment collections. Corbis Outline is the leader in high quality in-studio celebrity portraiture from the world's best photographers. It features originality and glamour at its best with iconic images that exude imagination and style. Corbis Entertainment offers fresh, glamorous, candid images from the red carpet, award ceremonies, movie premieres, fashion show catwalks and parties covered by Corbis plus Retna, Women’s Wear Daily, epa and Reuters photographers.
To view images from the new Retna collection, visit www.corbis.com/entertainment.
About Corbis
Corbis is a leading visual media provider for advertising, marketing and media professionals, providing a comprehensive selection of photography and illustration. Corbis’ award-winning creative, documentary, archival, fine art, current events and entertainment imagery helps the creative community make distinctive advertising and publishing for the Internet, magazines, newspapers, books, television and films. Corbis has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia that serve more than 50 countries. For more information, visit www.corbis.com.
About Retna
Retna 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. Retna photographers are available for hire should you be seeking coverage of an event, or a studio portrait: our contributors and our staff have years of experience in the business. Personal service is given to all clients by a dedicated sales and research staff and our editors work closely with all contributors, ensuring quality and consistency. Visit www.retna.com.
This just doesn't make sense for photographers to submit images to RETNA. Why don't they just bypass RETNA and go directly with Corbis instead of having another agent and their sub agents eating away at their diminishing returns ? Just my opinion!
Posted by: Bob | June 15, 2009 at 02:00 AM
everyone uses partners overseas i am not sure about buzz on this
Posted by: carissa | June 16, 2009 at 06:48 PM