Collection Overview
The National Geographic Image Collection is the photographic and illustrations archive of the National Geographic Society. The Image Collection operates as a full-service stock photography agency as well as providing editing, research, and rights clearance services. Sophisticated systems are utilized to track, file, dupe, label, catalog, and research the images used in NGS products.
The permanent collection consists of over 10 million photographs and works of art. This includes 300,000 published images, 1 million file selects, and 300,000 staff rolls (9 million images). At any given time there are also 50-60,000 non-staff rolls (2 million images) in transit among Film Review, the Image Collection, and return to photographers.
Images become part of the collection if they are
- Published in a Society product
- Chosen as a file select or out-take from a National Geographic assignment
- Submitted to Image Sales as stock photography (stock-only images).
Selected images are available online through our e-commerce site: http://www.nationalgeographicstock.com/
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