ArenaPAL
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | photo archive, photo library, publishing, photography and the performing arts |
| Genre | photography |
| Founded | 1998 |
| 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 which are continually 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 1998 as the first fully digitised performing arts archive. Unlike most specialist photographic agencies it was not founded on the back of one individual's photographic collection, but has worked with a wide range of contributors from its inception. The company continues to expand its extensive archive as well as taking in regular submissions of contemporary performance, including theatre, ballet, dance and opera productions, plus classical music, rock, pop and jazz events. Arenapal are also a photographic commissions agency with a rosta of respected arts photographers including Richard Cannon, Eric Richmond and Hilary Shedel.
ArenaPAL is a member of BAPLA British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies.
Collections
Notable and prestigious archives and collections represented by ArenaPAL include The Royal Academy of Dance, The Royal Academy of Music, 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.
Photographers
ArenaPAL represent the archives of many photographers of the performing arts, amongst them are:
| * Alan Bergman (Dancer) | * Allan Titmus |
| * Clive Barda [2] | * Conrad Blakemore |
| * Darryl Williams | * Eric Richmond |
| * Frazer Ashford | * Guy Gravett |
| * Hanya Chlala | * Henrietta Butler |
| * Herb Snitzer | * Hilary Shedel |
| * Ian Dickson | * Ivan Kyncl |
| * Jak Kilby | * Jamie Hodgson |
| * Johan Persson | * John Timbers |
| * John Vickers | * Linda Rich |
| * Marilyn Kingwill | * Mark Douet |
| * Mark Ellidge | * Morris Newcombe |
| * Nigel Norrington | * Nobby Clark |
| * Richard Cannon | * Ron Scherl |
| * Ron Scherl | * Sasha Gusov |
| * Sheila Burnett | * Sisi Burn |
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)