Stories, News, Articles and Galleries reflecting our collection
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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We hope to make you feel festive and get in the spirit of the holidays. So here are a selection of images, for those of us who celebrate Christmas, showing that all through the years we have all come together as friends and family to celebrate a special time of the year. Season’s Greetings from […]
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Fireworks are great to see and experience. Capturing a still image of fireworks with photography is easy to do, especially with modern cameras and smart phone cameras that do a lot of the work in their powerful software getting the exposure and frame rate correct, so all you do is click the button. But consider […]
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Founded during the first half of the fifteenth century, the Temple of Heaven in Beijing was built as a sacrificial altar for both heaven and earth. Originally named the Altar of Heaven and Earth upon its completion in 1420, the complex was renamed the Temple of Heaven in 1534 during the reign of Emperor Jianjing following […]
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Ninety years ago, construction teams were eleven months into work on building what is now one of the most famous and recognizable man-made structures in the world. The Golden Gate Bridge links San Francisco to Marin County and before the bridge was operational, a ferry service took people from one side to the other across […]
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UIG are pleased to add the Florilegius collection to our archive. Florilegius, the passion of collector Richard Jeffery, offers more than 35,000 engravings, illustrations, archival prints, and lithographs of a variety of subjects. Well-known for its deep coverage of botanical illustrations, Florilegius built its comprehensive botanical image archive from its collection of flower magazines, botany books […]
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Day of the Dead occurs annually on November 2, following Halloween and All Soul’s Day. The holiday, which was recognized by UNESCO in its Tangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in 2008, is an important cultural day in Mexico and is also celebrated worldwide by people of Mexican descent. While “Death” is the main theme of the day, […]
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Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado is home to remarkably well-preserved archaeological sites constructed more than 1200 years ago. The ancestral Pueblo people built thriving communities on the mesa tops and in the cliffs beneath them. The Pueblo lived in the four corners region of the southwestern United States for more than 700 years. Towards the […]
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After more than 15 years living in other places in Spain and the world, life has brought me back to the city where I was born and which I am going to talk to you briefly about in this post, to accompany a selection of photographs that illustrate my words. Located halfway between Madrid and […]
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Harvest, the season of the gathering of crops. The word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon haerfest (“autumn”) or the Old High German herbist. Harvest has been a season of rejoicing from the remotest times. (Britannica – https://www.britannica.com/topic/harvest) Artists have captured the annual harvest period, so important and celebrated culturally and socially, especially in our earlier […]
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