The total Photo Imaging workforce in the UK comprises around 43,100 people, with 51% based in the south of England. London and the South East region contain the largest proportion at 38%, while the South West and East of England also have high concentrations. Getty Images is a major stock photo agency based in Seattle. It has an archive of over 80 million still images and illustrations as well as 50,000 hours of stock footage. Getty Images operates a large commercial website that allows clients to search, browse, purchase image rights, and download images. Instagram was created in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and gained popularity rapidly, reaching over 100 million active users by 2012. Getty Images was

2. Size, shape, structure
0 The total Photo Imaging workforce comprises around
43,100 people. 51% of these are based in the south of
England, with the largest proportion - some 38% - in
London and the South East. The rest of the workforce
is spread throughout Scotland, Wales, Northern
Ireland and the remaining regions of England, with
the highest concentrations in the South West (13%)
and the East of England (12%).

3. Some companies in this
sector
0 Getty Images, Inc. is a stock photo agency, based in Seattle,
Washington, United States. It is a supplier of stock images for
business and consumers with an archive of 80 million still images
and illustrations and more than 50,000 hours of stock film footage. It
targets three markets—creative professionals, the media, and
corporate .
0 Getty has distribution offices around the world and capitalizes on
the Internet and CD-ROM collections for distribution. As Getty has
acquired other older photo agencies and archives, it has digitized
their collections, enabling online distribution. Getty Images now
operates a large commercial website which allows clients to search
and browse for images, purchase usage rights and download images.
Costs of images vary according to the chosen resolution and type of
rights associated with each image. The company also offers custom
photo services for corporate clients.

4. Ownerships
0 Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike
Krieger and launched in October 2010. The service
rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active
users as of April 2012.
0 Getty images-In 1995, Mark Getty and Chief Executive
Officer Jonathan Klein co-founded Getty Investments
LLC. Mark Getty is the company's chairman.

5. Digital photography
0 Digital photography has changed image making. It has also
made news events much more immediate. One can e-mail
or place an image on the Internet and in a flash its the
other side of the world and in the papers or in the news
bulletins on TV.
0 Digital has changed the way we photograph as well. With
manual we took fewer images and each image is carefully
planned. With digital we can take many more images and
have hundreds more to choose from. One finds that the
spontaneity and the speed at which we use digital gives
some very surprising and unplanned images.

6. Linked to industries
0 The photography and photo imaging industries relate
to the advertising and marketing industry as the
adverts use images in their advertisement.
0 It is also linked to the film industries as they’ll use a
lots of photography in the trailer.