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		Barcelona, June 2007 age fotostock (www.agefotostock.com) is pleased to announce the signing of a distribution agreement for age fotostock (rights managed) and Pixtal (royalty free) with Hemis in France, a company whose spectacular images on travel are distributed through the site www.hemis.fr. In addition, age fotostock is also proud to welcome Hemis into the growing family of distributor websites running on age fotostock´s proprietary THP (Technological Hosting Platform), thereby enabling www.hemis.fr to integrate a powerful search engine into their site and to single-handedly offer over one million images (with lots more coming) in both rights managed and royalty free to its potential clients. About this newly formed cooperation, Bertrand Gardel, CEO of Hemis, said: “I was instantly attracted by the prospect of offering a much wider selection of images to my clients, and opening up the possibilities beyond the sector of travel imagery, though this will remain our specialty. Hemis has undergone great growth last year and the time is right to seize new opportunities. In addition, getting set-up with the THP has been really fast and efficient, I´ve gained access to a customized platform and lots more content than ever before”. Sylvie Cherian, Director of International Operations at age fotostock, further added: “Nowadays, while some complain about other business models like microstock cannibalising their sales, it is quite refreshing to meet people with a great drive and understanding of how to conduct business in an internet economy. We were immediately impressed by Bertrand´s drive as well as his team´s, and are greatly looking forward to this new cooperation”. Sylvie Cherian Director of International Operations age fotostock www.agefotostock.com

		Hemis is located in Paris, France, and is recognized for its outstanding travel pictures for editorial and advertising use . It remains one of the last independent stock and features agencies, and with the largest collection of stock photos of France, it is also the quintessential photography agency for travel imagery in France and throughout the world. Hemis currently holds over 130.000 web-based images, Rights-Managed and Royalty Free, updated on a weekly basis with new material. Hemis´ images are distributed worldwide, with most of its contributing photographers based in France and abroad, and who are available for assignments at any time.
		age fotostock is a general photo agency with offices in Barcelona, Madrid, and New York, dedicated to the constant uploading of images from an impressive range of subjects (rights managed and royalty free) on a daily basis. age fotostock distributes its images in more than 70 countries through an extensive and solid network of agents for which the age fotostock name not only as a synonym for a well known brand, but for its prestige of distributing one of the best and most varied collections in the world. age fotostock is a technologically advanced photographic agency, with an extremely efficient IT department that constantly innovates and develops the applications necessary to guarantee an impeccable internet service twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. age fotostock is still today, after over 30 years in business, an independant, privately-owned Spanish company very much committed to growth through its own generation of capital, and based on its long industry experience, technological savvy, and marketing expertise.
		The term THP (Technological Hosting Platform), is defined as the sum of working and marketing efforts of a group of people: image providers, distributors and clients, interacting within the global market place, at their own will and not submissive to a major organization. Management of the THP is overseen single-handedly by age fotostock. The THP was introduced six years ago and has now evolved into a community of 54 distributors, 239 RF and RM image collections and over 1.300 photographers, combining to form an impressive database of 4,7 million high resolution files residing on age fotostock servers located in Barcelona, Spain, and New York. Furthermore, another group of 63 age fotostock distributors receive different levels of support as the result of the technology emanating from the THP developments, which allows age fotostock to, among other things, massively process and keyword thousands of images in seven languages within a fraction of time required for other companies to do the same.