Who Are We - What Do We Do
Who Are We - What Do We Do
DDB Stock Photography specializes in photographic coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean. Our picture files comprise one of the largest collections of Latin American images in the world. Our picture library includes over 500,000 color transparencies of subjects from Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean Basin.
DDB Stock Photography opened for business in 1970. The picture library currently includes the work of 110 professional photographers who contribute thousand of new images a month to keep our coverage up-to-date. DDB Stock Photography only markets rights managed (RM) images. Our images are not mass-marketed as commodities on Royalty Free CD-ROM. None of our images are over exposed and in common usage. Image uniqueness is key to our success. We carefully cull out old images that have become dated and have no historical value.
We do not create recombinant, hybrid "PhotoShopped images. Our images either exist in nature or are so dramatically altered that there is no possibility they would be mistaken for editorial photography born in the camera. Our pictures are unique and real captured moments in time that depict authentic, unretouched content recorded on film or digitally. However, we do retain Photoshop experts on staff who can create professional, recombinant hybrids for clients that specifically request them.
Agency picture researchers know Latin America very well and know the agencies image files even better. They can quickly locate images of obscure subjects in the carefully keyworded files. We offer free photo research and put up customized lightboxes with Jpegs for clients to review over the Internet. Staff technicians are available to professionally scan high resolution, publication quality TIFF files and set them up for easy download by clients that selected them during self service research in the digital files or picked them from customized lightboxs set-up by DDB staff.
DDB Stock Photography is very digital and employs professional scanners to convert the film files to digital images that may be searched and downloaded from our Website. We can meet any digital image delivery need. Almost all our photographers have converted to digital and are expert in the technology. Images selected from their digital submissions are quickly setup on the Website where they may be searched and downloaded. We currently have over 20,000 hi-res digital images on the website that are available for immediate download
General Stock: Detailed coverage of Latin American agriculture, anthropology, archaeology, banking, campuses, children, cities, commerce, crafts, dining, ecology, ecotourism, ethnography, families, fauna, flora, geography, geology, healthcare, history, industry, mining, pollution, poverty, scenics, schools, science, Spanish language, students, technology, teenagers, tourism, towns and urban landscapes.
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.
Agency photographers are talented, well known and specialize in Latin America. They know the textbook and editorial markets very well. All are familiar with Spanish language textbook illustration trends and needs. Many work in the travel and tourism industry. Several specialize in commerce, industry, and agriculture. A few work in politics and current affairs. Most photographers are based in the USA, but the agency also represents 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. DDB Stock photographers are fluent in Spanish and travel effortlessly and knowledgably in Latin American countries.
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.
Speciality — Spanish language textbooks, Science and math textbooks, country books, Caribbean cruise travel, Adventure, ecological, and cultural tourism.
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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