Number of employees: 20
Date of formation: 1973
Company Information:
Sipa Press, the flagship of photojournalism in France and around the world, was founded in 1973.
Sipa is a treasure of over 20 million physical archives (silver archives and plates), the oldest dating back to the 1940s. These archives have been produced by the world's greatest photographers.
Sipa is a database and a website, www.sipa.com, offering hundreds of daily users over 75 million images. Over 12,000 new photos and features are added to the site every day.
Finally, Sipa is a team of employees (from photographers to salaried agency staff), all talented and recognized by our clients for their reliability, professionalism and experience.
Our agency covers all national and international news thanks to an editorial team based in Paris and a worldwide network built up over decades, comprising more than 1,000 correspondents.
Our images are distributed daily to the major international media: daily press, magazines, television and the Internet.
Sipa Press has always been at the visual forefront of news, from full-length stories to never-before-seen images, from social issues to scoops of the moment.
Throughout its existence, Sipa Press has become a key player in France and around the world.
The agency has always been committed to defending the freedom and independence of the press.
It actively participates in the major advances made by the profession and is involved to the utmost, which has earned it key positions within the main organizations and institutions concerned with press agencies and the media more generally. The existence of agencies such as Sipa Press ensures press pluralism.
Motivation for becoming a CEPIC Member:
One of the oldest and most faithful supporter
Other existing membership:
FNAPPI
Partner at Visa pour l’Image: financing the Prize for daily news