Belga is the leading news agency of the neighbouring country with services in both French and Flemish. The agency covers European politics in Brussels but also other affairs occurring in the Benelux countries. Spanish politics, the country’s royal family and the main tourist destinations will be attended to by Europa Press, one of the leading picture agencies in south west Europe. The news agency HINA will report from Croatia for dpa’s international photo network.  With Indian group PTI’s cooperation, dpa opens up to unique access its clients to the picture market in one of the most important emerging countries on earth.

dpa Editor-in-Chief Sven Gösmann emphasises, “Step by step our dpa photo network is growing. This is dpa’s answer to the globalised world: opening up and cooperating - not self-imposed isolation.”

“We provide our customers with independent, professional photo journalism in even better quality,” dpa Managing Director Peter Kropsch affirms, “In this way, we are creating a network of professional news organisations that is unprecedented for the German market.”

About the new dpa photo service
As we move into 2017, dpa has vastly improved the quality of the international section of its photo service. Instead of cooperating with a single partner, dpa will work with a forward-looking network comprising the best agencies in the world.

We will expand our existing photo service in the international hubs of Buenos Aires, Cairo and Sydney. The photo service will thus become more international and at the same time more German, as all photos will be in future curated and labelled for the dpa service. We’ll become smaller and yet bigger, as the number of photos will decrease as the selection and quality increases.

We’ve responded to customer demand for quality over quantity with an easy-to-use yet comprehensive service and we offer a tailor-made photo service with the best photos from across the globe.

The significantly expanded dpa photo desk selects, curates and labels each photo. This means it will not only be easier to find exactly what you’re looking for, but that the automatic linkage of photos with text and video is significantly improved.

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