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	Stock Image Search

SUBMIT A REQUEST:
If you enter your requests here they will be sent out by email to photographers with relevant collections.
Any that have suitable images will upload them onto an online lightbox for you to view.
We have photographers in more than 130 countries worldwide so we can find just about anything!

Quote: "The photographers that have contacted me through Photographers Direct have been a pleasure to work with and very helpful!" Barbara Gamache, McGraw-Hill

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Picture Format:	portrait (vertical) landscape (horizontal) both
Editorial or Advertising:	editorial advertising
Colour:	colour images ONLY black & white images ONLY either
*Request Title:
	Please include a title that will give photographers a good general idea of what pictures you need. For example 'African Agriculture' is better than 'Pictures for Schoolbook'.
Request/s: PLEASE INCLUDE AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE! For people: sex, age, posed/candid, clothing, modern/traditional. Close-up/distant. Time of day. * The more detail you provide the more suitable the images are likely to be. * Our photographers are INTERNATIONAL, so please make it clear if you need country-specific images.

*Budget For Pictures:

Please include some idea as to your budget for pictures. Many libraries and photographers have minimum fees they will accept and will not receive requests with low fees.
The higher the fee you offer, the better your chances of finding suitable images.

*Currency:

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For book, magazine or brochure:

Front Cover:

Average amount for front cover usage
on book, magazine or brochure cover.

Inside 1/4 page:

eg for 1/4 page usage
in book, magazine or brochure.

Other Usage:

For any other usage (eg. poster, calender, advert, tv, website etc) please quote a per image rate. You can add details in the notes box below.

Notes on budget: Please include any info available regarding print run, language, territorial/geographical rights etc

Picture Rights:

royalty free images ONLY NO royalty free images either

Relevant Categories: The list below may appear daunting, but you can enter as few (or as many) categories as you like. It will only take a minute! We have many specialist photographers from around the world who are only interested in requests for their specialised field/s. The great thing is that this hugely increases the chances of finding the specific images you need while cutting out the need for photographers to scan through all the requests which are irrelevant to them. Please try it - you might be amazed!
Advertising Agriculture/Farming Ancient Civilisation Animals Antiquities Archaeology Architecture Art & Artists Automobiles & Bikes Aviation Beauty Birds Boats & Ships Business Celebrities Children & Babies Cinema Collectables Countryside Crafts Crime Dance Education Elderly People	Emotions Engineering Environmental Issues Exploration Family Life Fashion Festivals Fish & Fishing Flowers & Plants Food & Drink Gardens & Gardening Gay Issues Geology Glamour Health History Home Life Horses & Equestrian Indigenous People Industrial Insects Interiors Leisure Lifestyles	Literature & Authors Marine & Marine Life Medical Military Mountaineering Music Occult & Paranormal Politics Portraits (photographic) Relationships Religion Royalty Science Shopping Space Sport Television Theatre Transport Wars & Conflicts Weather Wildlife Work

Locations: If you need images of SPECIFIC LOCATIONS then please choose the relevant continent, region or countries from the lists below. Please make it as specific as possible. Example 1: If you want GENERAL pictures of 'West Africa', tick 'West Africa' from the 'Regions' list rather than 'Africa' from the 'Continents' list. If you have ticked 'West Africa' you DO NOT need to tick the specific countries on the list. Example 2: If you want SPECIFIC COUNTRIES from different parts of the world, choose the individual countries rather than their continent or region.
Continents: Africa North America South America Antarctica Asia Europe	Regions: North Africa West Africa Central Africa East Africa Southern Africa North America Central America South America Latin America	Caribbean Middle East West Asia Central Asia East Asia Indian Ocean Australasia Pacific Atlantic Arctic
Countries: Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo(Brazzaville) Congo(Zaire) Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Easter Island East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon	Galapagos Islands Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, North Korea, South Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mali Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua	Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Lucia Samoa Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia & Montenegro Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United States United Kingdom Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Yugoslavia Zambia Zimbabwe

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