About Sipa Press

The premier independent French photo press agency

Sipa Press covers world news thanks to a staff of 27 photographers, a network of more than 600 correspondents and exclusive distribution agreements with partner agencies such as Associated Press (AP) and the European Press Agency (EPA).

From political conflicts to high society stories, from entertainment to economics, Sipa Press has all the bases covered, 365 days a year. Nearly 2,000 images, captioned and complemented by text, are distributed daily in 40 countries.

More than 100 people work at Sipa Press headquarters in Paris: photographers, editors, salesmen, administrative... Sipa Incorporated, based in New-York, ensures production and licensing for the American market.

Sipa Press is a part of Sud Communication, the media group held by French industrialist Pierre Fabre.

Since its inception, SIPA has maintained its own strong identity: proactive, with a taste for risk and the expression of many talents and styles. The agency is as committed to up-to-the-minute coverage of headline news as it is to in-depth photo features and investigative stories, and its photos make the front pages of newspapers and magazines around the world.

The agency holds 25 million photos in its archives and three million pictures in its digital database.

In addition to its own production, which stretches back 30 years, Sipa Press possesses or manages prestigious archival collections such as the Dalmas, Serge Lido, Eclair-Mondial and Universal Photo archives, thereby covering world news in all its variations since the 1940s.

Göksin Sipahioglu, founder of the SIPA PRESS agency, is originally from Turkey. He is one of the father figures of photojournalism. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Prague Spring, the tragedy of the Munich Olympic Games to the student uprisings of May 1968, few major events or historical figures have escaped his lens. In 1973, with his companion, American journalist Phyllis Springer, Sipahioglu created the agency which still bears his name.