Arenapal
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| Private | |
| Industry | photo archive, photo library, publishing, photography and the performing arts |
| Genre | photography |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Services | Image licensing, picture research, archival services, arts photography commissions |
| Website | www.arenapal.com |
ArenaPAL is a UK company, based in Central London, which specialises in the licensing of performing arts images, both in the UK and throughout the world.
Its collection falls under the main categories of opera, theatre, classical and contemporary music, classical and contemporary dance, as well as educational imagery covering all categories. It has a library of 3 million images with over 350,000 currently view-able online. The library also holds thousands of unscanned prints, negatives and transparencies. These are digitised as part of its on-site archival scanning project. It is currently the largest specialist image library of its kind in the world.
History
ArenaPAL was founded in 1997 as the first fully digitised performing arts archive. Unlike most specialist photographic agencies, it has worked with a wide range of contributors from its inception. The company continues to expand its extensive archive as well as taking in submissions of contemporary performance, including theatre, ballet, dance and opera productions, plus classical music, rock, pop and jazz events. Arenapal is also a photographic commissions agency with a roster of arts photographers including Richard Cannon, Eric Richmond and Hilary Shedel.
ArenaPAL is a member of BAPLA, the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies.
Collections
The archives and collections represented by ArenaPAL include the Royal Academy of Dance, Garsington Opera, and Glyndebourne Festival Opera including the Guy Gravett Collection and Mike Hoban Collection, the Boosey and Hawkes Collection, the Stanislavski Collection (Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance) (exclusive), The Darryl Williams Dance Library (exclusive), The Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Archive (exclusive),[1] Bertram Park and Yvonne Gregory Archive (exclusive), The University of Bristol Theatre Collection (exclusive), The John Vickers Archive (exclusive), The Cameron Mackintosh Library, The Noel Gay Organisation, The Ronald Grant Film and TV Archive, RIA Novosti Culture, Prussian Heritage Image Archive (BPK), IndaiPicture, Andia (France) and the original Performing Arts Library (PAL)(exclusive).
As of 2013 ArenaPAL exclusively represent the Opera and Dance Archives of the Royal Opera House. In 2015 the library saw exclusive representation of the Royal College of Music.
Photographers
ArenaPAL represents the archives of many photographers of the performing arts, including:
| * Alan Bergman (Dancer) | * Allan Titmuss |
| * Clive Barda [2] | * Conrad Blakemore |
| * Darryl Williams | * Eric Richmond |
| * Hervé Allemand | * Guy Gravett |
| * Frazer Ashford | * Henrietta Butler |
| * Hanya Chlala | * Hilary Shedel |
| * Herb Snitzer | * Ivan Kyncl |
| * Ian Dickson | * Jamie Hodgson |
| * Jak Kilby | * John Timbers |
| * Johan Persson | * Linda Rich |
| * John Vickers | * Mark Douet |
| * Marilyn Kingwill | * Morris Newcombe |
| * Mark Ellidge | * Nobby Clark |
| * Nigel Norrington | * Ron Scherl |
| * Richard Cannon | * Sasha Gusov |
| * Ron Scherl | * Sisi Burn |
| * Sheila Burnett |
References
External links
- www.arenapal.com
- Arenapal at the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA)
- "F2 Freelance Photographer: Licence To Sell - Arenapal managing director Biddy Hayward talks to Sue Harper about its specialist service and the close relationship maintained with its photographers" (June / July 2009 Issue)