Best of 2025

LOOKING BACK AT SOME OF THE GREAT IMAGES WE RECEIVED IN 2025 Over the course of a year we receive, select and process many thousands of images across a wide variety of subjects. We are privileged to work with such a fantastic range of photographers, agencies and archives. Check out our slideshows below featuring just […]

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A selection of the great images we received in 2024 

Over the course of a year we receive, select and process many thousands of images across a wide variety of subjects. We are privileged to work with such a fantastic range of photographers, agencies and archives. Check out our slideshows below of just some of the interesting, striking and topical images, that we received in […]

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A selection of great images we received in 2023 

Over the course of a year we receive many thousands of images across a wide variety of subjects. We are privileged to work with such a fantastic range of photographers, agencies and archives. Check out our slideshow below of a selection of striking images among the many other thousands of great images that we received […]

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UIG’s Aerial Photography Collection

Gaspard-Felix Tournachon is widely believed to be the first producer of aerial photography.  Tournachon, a balloonist, took images mainly of Paris, France in the late 1850’s.  The earliest surviving aerial photograph, however, was one created in 1860.  James Wallace Black and Samuel Archer King’s aerial photograph was titled “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It”. […]

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Best of Kaleidoscope 2022

Take a journey with us as we look back at the posts we added to Kaleidoscope in 2022 and the interesting, topical and striking images that we chose to include in them. Don’t forget to use the ARCHIVE link at the bottom of this page to view all our previous posts – we’re sure there […]

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