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 CLIENTS?
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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.
