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Alamy Images adds unique American travel content to its portfolio

21st May 2003

Alamy Images, a leading provider of both specialist and general imagery from the world's major picture agencies and photographers, has recently added over 9,000 pictures of 'off-the-beaten-track' and mainstream American travel destinations by photographer Andre Jenny.

Jenny, originally from Switzerland, had noticed that most photographers in the United States only covered popular tourist destinations and therefore often overlooked the distinct character and diversity of different regions.

"U.S. guidebooks publish notes on sites of interest in every town but there really weren't any great pictures to illustrate these distinct features," said Jenny. "It's usually the big cities and key landmarks that get significant attention because they are close to airports and easy to get to. I wanted to capture a side of America seldom photographed, as well as more popular locations familiar to travellers."

"Alamy strives to offer customers hard-to-find, rare images like these, as well as offering them onestop access to the main image brands," added James West, CEO of Alamy. "This unique collection further expands Alamy’s extensive travel imagery portfolio, which features photographs from destinations around the world."

Jenny first got the 'off-the-beaten-track' travel bug when he trekked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, taking photographs along the way. He then travelled extensively across the U.S. over a long period of time, shooting the material that is now on Alamy. Jenny's imagery covers towns and scenic landscapes of most of the U.S. including New England, the mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, and Great Lakes regions, as well as the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. Photo highlights also include cultural pictures of Amish people and various aspects of everyday life in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County.

The collection additionally includes shots of more mainstream tourist destinations in South America (Chile and Argentina), the Caribbean, Mexico, Western Europe and Canada (coast-to-coast).

Additional U.S. providers added to Alamy in the last few months include Joseph Sohm (local U.S. imagery); Bill Marsh Royalty Free Photography (winter sports); Russ Widstrand, Bert Klassen (both conceptual imagery); Jason Lindsey (U.S. and Scandinavian landscapes), Ambient Images (unusual U.S. East and West Coast images); Phototake (medical imagery), Pat Benke (Chinese material), MergeLeft (unusual general stock), BlueMoon Stock (seniors), David Sanger (editorial and advertising), Douglas Peebles (vacation shots) and Tony Sweet (landscapes and nature).