Licensing

Using a
photograph.

Photographs from this archive can be licensed for editorial and commercial use. What is possible depends on the rights held for each frame, so enquiries are answered one photograph at a time.

Typical uses

A red lighthouse stands at the end of a breakwater under a pale sky.

How rights are handled

Copyright in every photograph stays with the photographer. A licence grants a defined use for a defined time — it does not transfer ownership of the image.

Photographs containing identifiable people, private property, artwork or trademarks carry third-party rights beyond the photographer's copyright. Where the necessary releases are not held, a frame can still be licensed for editorial use but not for commercial use. This is assessed frame by frame, never assumed.

If a photograph cannot be cleared for the use you have in mind, you will be told so directly. Nothing here is offered as pre-cleared stock.

How an enquiry works

  1. 01Identify the photograph. Every frame in the archive carries a reference number — the three digits shown beneath it. Opening a photograph and choosing Enquire about licensing carries that reference to this page for you.
  2. 02Describe the use: where it will appear, in which territory, for how long, and roughly at what scale.
  3. 03Rights are checked for that specific frame and that specific use.
  4. 04You get an answer, a fee and a licence. Or a no, which arrives just as quickly.

All 535 published photographs can be asked about. Availability is confirmed individually.