Photoshot Holdings has purchased the Bruce Coleman Inc photo library, Photoshot’s first acquisition in the United States
Press Release:
International expansion at Photoshot – Photoshot Holdings Limited announces the purchase of Bruce Coleman Inc, a long established source of nature & travel imager.
Charles Taylor, managing director of Photoshot Holdings Limited, today announced that Photoshot Holdings has purchased the Bruce Coleman Inc photo library, Photoshot’s first acquisition in the United States.
Charles said, “The addition of Bruce Coleman Inc to our family of collections is another significant milestone in our plan to establish Photoshot as a quality based, full service, international, photo library group. Bruce Coleman perfectly compliments our existing nature and travel collections, NHPA and World Pictures.”
“We are extremely excited at becoming the new custodian of this wonderful collection and will do everything possible to build on the long tradition of service that Bruce Coleman Inc and Norman Owen Tomalin have provided in the US since 1970. “
“We have now bought a total of nine complementary photo businesses since 2001,” Charles continued, “and service customers from wholly owned offices in New York, London and Hamburg. With this growth, we are confident that we can supply a broad range of quality imagery to picture buyers, be the image a live news picture, an archival record, an entertainment event or exclusive celebrity portrait, a travel shot or a wildlife image or a creative shoot. Photoshot is one of only a few agencies that can supply this mixture of news and stock imagery.”
Norman Owen Tomalin, owner of Bruce Coleman Inc says, “When looking for a company to build upon the existing strengths of the Bruce Coleman Picture Library, I wanted to make sure that I was dealing with a picture business committed to photographers and great photography. Photoshot has admirably demonstrated that it shares this desire with their acquisition of several leading nature and travel libraries and the way those businesses have thrived under the Photoshot umbrella.”
Having such diverse collections under one roof also offers great opportunities to the group’s contributing photographers who no longer suffer from being pigeon-holed as being suppliers of specific type of image. Photoshot is keen to invite submissions from photographers across all its collections.