EPA European Pressphoto Agency Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary
EPA celebrates it’s tenth anniversary with a collection of images available as an ebook.
PRESS RELEASE
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of epa european pressphoto agency b.v. beginning its global operation, a collection of the most outstanding epa images spanning the past decade has been compiled as a slide show, also available as an e-book, the agency announced in Frankfurt today.
“Our shareholding agencies were well aware of the dramatically increasing importance of visual information and of the strategic requirement to secure their independent news photo supply with exclusive and eternal rights at affordable rates. This is why they decided ten years ago that epa should go global”, said Jörg Schierenbeck, epa’s President & CEO. “Today, epa is one of the leading international news photo agencies – thanks to our highly motivated team around the globe”, Schierenbeck added.
Hannah Hess, Editor-in-Chief of epa, said: “Ten years ago the then existing epa staff in Europe and the many new epa colleagues around the globe boldly joined hands to push their vision of the different angle in photo journalism forward from a European perspective to a global perspective. It is a great pleasure to see that none of the energy has been lost over the years.
Based on the full dedication, professionalism and creativity of the epa team we will continue to further enhance epa’s photo journalistic quality in the years to come.”