About Us
Britain on View
Britain on View is the UK's specialist photographic library offering unique images of Britain and British life. Owned by VisitBritain the National Tourism Agency, the collection is made up of over 30,000 images produced by VisitBritain’s shoot management team. In 1998 VisitBritain also invited third party photographers to submit images to the library in order to increase the collection. The library became a fully commercial operation in 2005. Britain on View is now managed by Photolibrary Group who represent the world’s leading stock brands and the finest photographers within the UK and from around the world.
Free Images:
If you are a partner working with or on behalf of VisitBritain register for free imagery now at visitbritainimages.com
VisitBritain
VisitBritain is the national tourism agency responsible for marketing Britain worldwide working in partnership with thousands of organisations from across the UK. VisitBritain is headquartered in London with offices and representatives in 35 markets worldwide.
Our mission is to build the value of tourism by working in partnership with industry and the nations and regions.
Our Goals are to:
- - Raise the world’s aspiration to explore Britain
- - Be the authority on maximising the value of the visitor economy
- - Raise tourism up the economic agenda
Our Long term Goal
In partnership with industry and the nations and regions increase the visitor economy to £133bn by 2018.
Our History
We were formed by the merger of the British Tourist Authority and England Tourism Council and are legally constituted as the British Tourist Authority under the Development of Tourism Act 1969. It is a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB).
The Photolibrary Group
The Photolibrary Group represents the world’s leading stock brands and the finest photographers from around the world, to bring memorable, workable content to the creative communities in Europe, America, Asia and The Pacific. We provide customers with access to over 5 million images and thousands of hours of footage and full composition music.
Photolibrary Group was founded in 1967 and, 40 years on has a global presence with offices in the United Kingdom (London), the USA (New York), Australia (Sydney and Melbourne), Singapore, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates.
The Photolibrary Group is comprised of the following:
Photolibrary is the head brand for The Photolibrary Group. Representing multiple agencies from around the world, Photolibrary offers customers over 3 million images - both rights managed and royalty free stills photography - across all content genres.
In addition, Photolibrary regularly produces its own content for both rights managed and royalty free licensing models. www.photolibrary.com
Photos To GO offers customers an extensive collection of professional images via a powerful yet simple search user interface. As a royalty free subscription service, Photos To GO offers a viable alternative to micro-stock services - showcasing only professional content with one of the most competitive pricing models on the market.
Photos To GO caters for all users from advertisers, designers, large corporations, magazines, and book publishers, to small business and home business image users. www.photostogo.com
In Monsoon, you'll find a riveting collection of contemporary photographic fine art and photographer's personal work. Based in New York, Monsoon Images' content is visionary, unexpected and at the same time relevant to our daily themes. Monsoon offers a broader range of images, allowing for unique identity in a cluttered market where frequently content is created in the same color, lighting, location and style. www.monsoonimages.com
Garden Picture Library is the UK's leading specialist source for inspirational images of gardens, flowers and gardening lifestyle. The library contains in excess of 400,000 images accessible at www.gardenpicture.com. The collection covers all garden and flower related subjects; from plant portraits and garden design details to garden views, floral graphics and practical gardening.
Garden Picture Library provides customers with a range of superb specialist images, which cannot be obtained anywhere else. Garden Picture Library's imagery is also very complementary to the natural world material available through our other wholly owned brand, Oxford Scientific (OSF), and provides an additional resource to our clients in the creative arena. www.gardenpicture.com
Fresh Food Images (formerly The Anthony Blake Photo Library or ABPL) is a leading specialist in food and drink images. From fast food to haute cuisine, from paddy fields to supermarkets; whatever you're looking for you will find it here.
The Fresh Food images collection of over 200,000 images represents the work of over 100 of the best talents in food and drink photography. We offer an extensive choice of styles from simple 'cut-outs' to creative still-lifes and striking location shots. www.freshfoodimages.com
Oxford Scientific (OSF) was founded in the early 1960's and is revered worldwide for being THE natural world specialist for both stock footage and images. Oxford Scientific's (OSF) stock image collection presents in-depth coverage of flora, fauna, mammals, science and the environment, while our stock footage offers over 2000 hours of footage specialising in the same subject matter and including treatments such as special effects, time-lapse, slow-motion, macro and micro cinematography. www.osf.co.uk