Who Are We - What Do We Do
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DDB Stock Photography specializes exclusively in photographic coverage of Latin America
and the Caribbean. The agency picture files include one of the largest collections of
Latin American images in the world. The extensive picture library currently includes over 500,000 color
transparencies of Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean Basin. The file
was started in 1970 and currently includes the work of 120 professional photographers.
The Images are returned to the photographer when they become dated and are replaced with fresh coverage.
Images are not mass-marketed as commodities on Royalty Free CD-ROM, so they are not oversold. Our coverage
is unique and targeted to an editorial client base; We avoid poised "stock" images with that fake feel to them.
We do not create recombinant, hybrid images created like a jigsaw puzzle from little parts cut out of
multiple originals and then digitally positioned to create a "new" image that does not exist in nature.
Our pictures are real captured moments in time that exist in nature and which, under the right light and positioning,
could be replicated in nature. They are real.
Agency picture researchers and personnel know Latin America very well and can quickly locate images
in the carefully computerized files. DDB Stock Photography is very digital
and has professionals scanning day and night to convert the film files to digital images.
When you consider that each high resolution, 2700 dpi digital TIFF scan requires 25-100 million bytes of
storage you quickly realize the scope of this ambitious project. We have ca. 20,000
hi-res digital images available for immediate download
PHOTO COVERAGE OF LATIN AMERICA
General Stock: Detailed coverage of Latin American agriculture, anthropology, archaeology, banking, commerce, crafts, ecology, ecotourism geography, geology, history, industry (heavy), mining, pollution, poverty, scenics, technology, tourism and urban.
Specialties: Detailed geographic coverage of Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Extensive file on tropical rainforest and inhabitants, Caribbean islands and resorts, travel destinations, ecotourism, urban scenics, rural scenics, capital cities, Mesoamerican ruins and artifacts, indigenous people, traditional and modern ceremony, mining a range of different metals and fuels, heavy industry from steel to automobile and aircraft, telecommunications and technology, stock markets and mercantile exchanges.
Geographic Areas: Complete coverage of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana, Guyana, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and every Caribbean island including large files on Aruba, Antigua, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, French West Indies including Guadeloupe and Martinique, Grand Cayman, Grenada, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and many other islands in the Caribbean.
Natural History: Extensive coverage of rainforest, cloud forest and desert flora and fauna from Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean including the Lacandon, Peten, Amazon and El Yunque rainforests, and cloud forests in Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica. The Sonoran to Atacama deserts, Sierra Madre Mountains to Andes, Patagonia, pampas, tepuis, fjords, glaciers, national areas and national parks, extensive collection of jungle flora and fauna.
Recent Coverage: Have added extensive coverage of Bolivia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Aruba, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, and a wide range of resorts and tourist destinations in the past 6 months. We have also added very good resort destinations in Mexico, Honduras, Belize and the Caribbean from several new, highly professional shooters who routinely work on Conde Nast travel projects.
We are thoroughly DIGITAL and can meet just about any digital image delivery need. Some of our capabilities are described beneath the hyperlink "Digital" above, so just click on the link to find out more.
WHO ARE OUR PHOTOGRAPHERS?
Agency photographers are talented, well known and specialize in Latin America. Most photographers are based in the USA, but the agency also has photographers in Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Agency photographers are always ready to shoot on assignment, and can get into the field quickly and with a minimum of trouble. Most photographers are fluent in Spanish and travel effortlessly in Latin American countries. Some of our best photographers are:
Bill Bachmann is a professional photographer with a client list to die for. He is recognized as one of the top five stock photographers in the world. He has photographed over 700 magazine covers, worked with 4 US Presidents and created major advertising campaigns. In his spare time, He's written 3 books and published numerous magazine articles on photography. Bill recently completed the most extensive photographic assignment ever attempted. This 295-day, 72 country shoot took him 214,000 miles (more than 8 times around the world) to photograph all the major monuments and people on earth. Kodak sponsored the grand venture. The two year Kodak project resulted in many outstanding images including a number from Latin America that are now available in our files.
Suzanne Murphy is a writer who specializes in Latin America travel pieces for the Robb Report. She won the American Society of Travel Photographers gold prize for people photography in 1988.
CC Lockwood is a nature photographer based in Louisiana who has published books on the Yucatan, Atchafalaya Swamp, Grand Canyon and Louisiana. He has published in National Geographic and recently finished a picture book on the Mississippi River and another "Still Waters" which features his best work in portfolio style.
Larry Dunmire is a travel and tourism photographer who keeps busy shooting travel stories for Conde Nast and other well known travel publications. His extensive contribution over the past year has increased our file of travel destinations dramatically.
Robert Fried is a well known text book photographer and travel photographer with thousands of credits to his name in educational publishing. He is highly talented and contributes significantly to the files.
John Phelan is the expedition photographer for the English Royal Navy and Marines Climbing Expedition in the Andes.
Dr. James D. Nations, an anthropologist and ecologist who specializes in tropical jungle destruction and works with governments throughout Latin America on ecology projects.
Virginia Ferrero is a photographer for Adventure Travel in South America.
Peter Chartrand works with Arizona newspapers and reports on border and northern Mexico events. He has just contributed a large collection of images of Nicaragua.
Stewart Aitchison is a nature photographer and author who leads ecotourism groups throughout Latin America. He has contributed a large file of images of Baja California.
Alyx Kellington is a news photographer and photo editor with an extensive file on current past events in Latin America.
Doug Bryant, the director, travels to Latin America on frequent assignments and places 15-20 thousand new slides in the files each year.
We have contributing photographers who live and work in Mexico, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Bolivia.
We have several contributing stock photo agencies in Argentina, Brazil and Chile who provide a large range of images from their many contributing photographers.
WHO ARE OUR CLIENTS?
SEE DDB STOCK PHOTO CURRENTLY IN PRINT
Magazines — Abril S.A., American Way, American Legion Magazine, Americas, Audubon, Bonniers, Bon Appetit, The Bravo Group, Brides, Buzzworm, CFO, Campus Life, Caribbean Travel and Life, Condé Nast Traveler, Der Spiegel, Discover, Diversion, Discovery Channel, Elle, enRoute, Endless Vacation, Esquire, First for Women, GEO, Gourmet, Guest Informant, Insight, Institutional Investor, Latin Trade, L.A. Times Travel, London Times Modern Bride, Native Peoples, N.Y. Times Travel, National Geographic Traveler, Newsweek, North-South, Off Duty, Outside Magazine Reader's Digest, San Francisco Magazine, Scholastic, Sugar Y Azucar, Taxi, Terre Sauvage, Travel Agent Magazine, Travel Holiday, U.S. News & World Report,, Vista, Weekly Reader and World and I.
Books — Abrams, Accent, Addison Wesley, Allyn and Bacon, Augsburg, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Brown, Children's Press, D.C. Heath, Dillion, Doubleday, EMC, Electronic Publishing, Encl. Britannica, Funk and Wagnalls, Glencoe, Grolier, Harcourt Brace, Harper Collins, Harper and Row, Heinle & Heinle, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Houghton Mifflin, John Wiley, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Lonely Planet, Longman, Macmillan/McGraw Hill, Mc Dougal, Modern Curriculum, Nystrom, Open Society Institute, Oxford, Peguis, Prentice Hall, Reader's Digest, Scholastic, Scott Foresman, Silver Burdett, Steck Vaughn, Time Life, Times Publishing, University of Arizona Press, Washington State University Press, Weldon Owens, West and World Book.
Advertising — Abercrombie & Kent, Apple Vacations, Bank of Mexico, Clipper Cruise Line, Holiday Inn, Interval International, Mexican National Tourist Bureau, Nissan, Overseas Adventure Travel, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, Sun Line Cruises, Toshiba, Travel Agent Magazine, Sigma Coatings.
Related Credentials: — Member ASPP, Affiliates in Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Turkey. Agency has dozens of photographers living throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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