Collection Spotlight: Underwood Archives

UIG contributing partner Underwood Archives offers researchers a vintage and historic glimpse into America’s past.  The collection includes thousands of images of politicians, entertainers, and other notables from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  The Underwood archive offers a peak at the daily lives of Americans in years gone by, humorous images from a simpler time, […]

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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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Essential Incidentals

A new story in our Contributor Spotlight series. It is a valuable skill in the photo agency industry being able to capture easily accessible visuals that are literal, good quality, great to look at and yet are symbolic, in that they can be licensed by many media clients to anchor and illustrate various topical and […]

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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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Who We Are

Universal Images Group, founded by George Sinclair in 2008, aggregates and distributes content to the global licensing and merchandising markets.  UIG has grown to represent content collections from more than 120 agency suppliers and nearly 175 photographers.  UIG’s subject specialties include World History, Fine Art, Science & Medicine, Environmental Science, Developing World, World Religions and Cultures, Archaeology, […]

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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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UN declares 21 November is World Television Day

‘World Television Day is not so much a celebration of the tool, but rather the philosophy which it represents. Television represents a symbol for communication and globalization in the contemporary world.’ – United Nations Television has the power to inform, entertain the masses and through advertising – the means to market products for us to […]

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2021 at UIG

We’re very fortunate at UIG.  We get to work with talented artists and passionate storytellers every day.  We spend our time reviewing and editing thousands of new images from a diverse group of contributors from across our beautiful planet.  Through their eyes and through their images we experience the world around us.  We are inspired by our contributors to […]

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