Aflo has extended its partnership with Mary Evans Picture Library, making their archive of more than 250,000 premium images available to customers in East and South East Asia through the Aflo images website. Aflo has proudly represented the Mary Evans collection in Japan for over 15 years, and is now thrilled to have a chance to further expand this collaboration to other countries in Asia.
The offer includes both the Mary Evans and the Ardea images collections, allowing Aflo customers in all countries of East and South East Asia to access UK’s leading picture source of wildlife and historical images.
Mary Evans joins other premium collections such as the Mainichi Newspaper, Yomiuri Newspaper, Science Photo Library, Kingendai Archive and Nikkan Sports, giving our customers a broad selections of high historical value images from both Japan and the world.
Mark Eite, Director of Business Development at Aflo: “We are honoured to represent the Mary Evans collection on Aflo images. As we continue to expand our image and footage offering outside of Japan, we feel that Mary Evans compliments Aflo’s original collections allowing us to fulfil more requests and provide better service in new markets.”
Paul Brown, Managing Director at Mary Evans Picture Library: “Aflo are one of our biggest, most important and longest standing partners in the industry and we are delighted to support them as they expand their sales effort into the East Asian market. We can think of no one better to make our content available in these territories with their mix of professionalism, honesty and integrity.”
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About Mary Evans Picture Library
Mary Evans Picture Library began life in 1964, and its core philosophy has remained unchanged for nearly 60 years: to make available and accessible all the wonderful images created for people to enjoy over the centuries which were originally published in books, on posters, in advertisements, or as prints.
In October 1964, in the Evans’ small Blackheath home, Mary clambered onto a stool to reach the top shelf of a clothes cupboard in order to retrieve an engraving for the BBC. By this time, every last corner of their home was stuffed full of the antiquarian books, prints and ephemera that were the personal passion of Mary and her husband Hilary, and became the foundation of Mary Evans Picture Library.
The library grew rapidly throughout the 1960s and 1970s. 1975 was a key year, when Hilary and Mary were founder members of both the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA), the industry’s trade organisation, and the Picture Research Association. In the same year they published the first edition of The Picture Researcher’s Handbook, which ran to eight editions. Since then, the library has gone from strength to strength. In 2013, Ardea Picture Library was added to the collection.
60 years since it was founded, the library continues to thrive, underpinned by a vast archive of historical imagery collected by Mary and Hilary over the years, and now supplemented by over 500 contributor collections.
Browse the Mary Evans Picture Library collection here.
About Aflo Images
Aflo images is the international division of Aflo, Japan’s largest privately-owned provider of still and moving imagery. Founded by a sports photographer in 1980, Aflo strives on providing the best possible service to both its suppliers and clients, as we all have in common a love for photography, both still and in motion.
We offer over 5 million still photos and videos for commercial and editorial use, sourcing and creating Rights Managed and Royalty Free images, videos and editorial content for clients worldwide 24/7. Based in Japan with offices in Tokyo and Osaka, we employ more than 150 staff from all over the world and supply visual content globally, both directly and through an international network of agencies.
Aflo works with a selected group of world-class photographers and production companies. Our editors select the best of the best, and our website is updated daily with fresh content. Our strengths include a comprehensive collection of fully released sporting imagery using real athletes and cleared for commercial use, and a library covering the best travel content from Japan. We also shoot editorial images and video and are always looking to introduce interesting stories from Japan. Our clients range from leading advertising agencies and media organisations, to multinational corporations, to web designers and creators of mobile content.