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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Collection Spotlight – Jim West

UIG contributing photographer Jim West has for more than thirty years focused on important editorial subjects such as social issues, human rights, social movements and organizations, worker’s rights and labor unions, and industry.  Based in Detroit, Michigan Jim has built an extensive collection covering the American automotive industry, especially from a labor and union perspective. His […]

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Collection Spotlight: Jeff Greenberg

For several decades, Miami Beach-based Jeff Greenberg has been one of the world’s most prolific stock photographers.  UIG are privileged to represent his collection for the past 12 years.  Jeff’s consistency, work ethic and dedication to his craft have made him one of the most published photographers of his generation. Besides being a prolific travel photographer who […]

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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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Contributor Spotlight on BSIP

UIG contributing partner BSIP Agency has long been known for their comprehensive collection of medical, wellness and scientific subjects.  BSIP’s main area of specialization is medical science, and the collection offers a complete study of human anatomy and physiology.  BSIP’s photo-micrographical collection includes colorized micrographs of an extensive variety of diseases.  The Agency’s offering includes coverage of medical […]

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Frederick Douglass, American Hero

Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass would eventually become a world-renowned activist and leading voice in the abolitionist movement.  Douglass spent his early years as a slave for various households in Maryland, having been sold multiple times by one slaveholder to another. One of the families that owned Douglass made him responsible for watching their […]

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Spotlight on Long Visual Press

Long Visual Press, founded in 2021, is an established photojournalism and photo agency based in Bogota, Colombia. The agency represents 20 photographers across Colombia and internationally in the USA and Portugal. Covering the geopolitically important country of Colombia, the agency and its photographers have added more than nine thousand images to the worldwide market since […]

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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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Das Kapital – 155 years

This year marks 155 years since Das Kapital was first published in 1867. It is one of the major works of the 19th-century economist and philosopher Karl Marx (1818–83). It is essentially a description of how the capitalist system works and how, Marx claims, it will destroy itself and become the foundation of international communism. Marx had already set […]

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