Company Summary
EPA Images is a worldwide visual content provider, originally starting out as a news photography agency. Our mission is to provide compelling photo and video coverage of breaking news and significant, agenda-setting events from around the world. We deliver a professionally edited, timely selection of highly reliable and competitive pictures and video clips to our clients. Our coverage ranges from general news, politics, and business to sports, arts, culture, and entertainment.
As an independent agency, EPA stands for unbiased, accurate and timely coverage of the world’s key news events. As a trusted news source, we are committed to respecting intellectual property and place the highest priority on protecting our sources as well as promoting press freedom.
Key Facts
EPA provides extensive coverage from around the world and is present in 87 countries.
2000 pictures are produced around the world each day
EPA has a photo archive of more than 10 million images
EPA history
The European Pressphoto Agency B.V. was founded in 1985 by seven European leading national news agencies motivated by what they saw as a lack of alternatives to the British/American-centric picture services offered at the time.
Originally conceived as a way to exchange pictures from the member agencies’ respective domestic services, the agency also included the world service of former shareholders and other European services and suppliers.
In 2022 the European Pressphoto Agency B.V. passed through a rebrand of its name and is now referred to as EPA Images. Today, EPA Images has eight shareholders, all market leaders in their respective countries: Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) in Greece, Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP) in the Netherlands, Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) in Italy, Agencia EFE in Spain, KEYSTONE-SDA-ATS AG in Switzerland, Lusa – Agência de Notícias de Portugal in Portugal, Magyar Távirati Iroda (MTI) in Hungary and Polska Agencja Prasowa (pap) in Poland.