Question Paparazzi photo agencies

[waderclip]

I was wondering what good agencies exist to get involved with and how to do so. There's a few I've gotten access to and you can see there entire exclusive collections and I'm hoping other people have access to others or know of some worth getting access to

 

[FayeMod]

Which have you gotten privilege to? I'd say the holy grail is Gettyimages, because of how many imgs they have in total and how popular they are. I have similar access to BFA but they have a limited selection. I find the best way to find collections like you're talking about is to find the original photographer or publication and check the photographers website.

 

[waderclip]

I've got the Mega Agency and Matrixpictures. The one I've been trying for ages to get access to is Shutterstock/backgrid/splashnews. Shutterstock is the parents company and it must be done through them. A lot of the photographers are annonymous and the gallery Shutterstock has is enormous

 

[FayeMod]

a lot of what gettyimages and shutterstock owns the rights to gets posted to the mainstream celeb reposting sites immediately, usually in original resolution. for example I found a similar res fairly quickly on celebmafia
heres the shutterstock one:

and the celebmafia one:

but you're right, I don't think I even realized how much Shutterstock has until I threw together this comparison. ill have to do some research on this one.