Potpourri Blog

Picture agencies (billedbureauer) in Denmark are to be found in the directory Danske Billedbureauer. It is possible here to get access to local picture agencies and stock photo libraries and to search for pictures mainly taken by Danish photographers. The number of these Danish pictures might be expanded by foreign photographers’ pictures of Denmark and from other Scandinavian countries.

If you are searching for genuine pictures specific from one country like Denmark, Danmark in Danish, you will often find the most suitable pictures shot by photographers from the country in question.

The Danish stock photo agencies include Scanpix, the largest of the Scandinavian picture houses, and Polfoto, both are general photo archives. Several of the Danish picture archives are more specialized on certain photo topics like pictures of animals, flowers, landscapes and environment, like BIOFOTO. Such specialized picture databases require expert information from the side of the stock photographers as well as relevant expertise among the picture editor and the picture researcher at the specialized stock photo agency. Without such detailed knowledge of species names, animal behavior or plant communities the customer cannot be sure to trust the caption of each stock photo. The explanatory text of the caption might be as important for the quality of the stock photo as the stock photo itself.

Each Danish picture agency (billedbureau) will now a day be more than eager to sell pictures to foreign customers outside Denmark. In fact based on the Nordic tradition some of the best Danish picture agencies are in cooperation with partners in the other Scandinavian countries, that is Norway, Sweden and Finland or the agency is a true Nordic enterprise having sections of their office for selling pictures in each of the Nordic capitals and often in several local cities, too.

With the online access to Danish pictures some of the Nordic stock photo agencies might concentrate their offers by reducing the number of offices in the province as their photo database will be available from all countries in Scandinavian, yes, in fact available from the whole world for picture researchers and photo buyers.

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