NETHERLANDS EPA IMAGES CREATION

EPA celebrates the 40th anniversary of its creation by main European news agencies

epa11715639 Ricardo Utrilla Carlón (Agencia EFE from Spain) (L) in the presence of public notary R.A.Gallas (R) sign the foundation agreement for the European Pressphoto Agency in Wassenaar, near the Hague, Netherlands, 12 November 1984. According to the agreement, the private limited company was initially established to "operate and distribute a press photo service across Europe." The signatories appointed DPA's photographer Albert Georg Riethausen as the first and temporary sole member of the management board of EPA.

EPA started its operations from the German town of Frankfurt am Main on 1 January 1985 and was formally registered in the Hague on 18 March 1985. On 16 October 1987, with Robert Kirwin as managing director, EPA registered its branch in Frankfurt, seat of the company's headquarters throughout its history.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, along with the Balkan wars in the 1990's led EPA to extend its operations beyond the shareholders' territories under the leadership of the managing director Cengiz Seren (1994-2001). By 2001, EPA had its own network of photographers deployed in Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Bosnia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Turkey, Greece and the United Kingdom.

In 2003, with former DPA Sales Director Jörg Schierenbeck (2003-2020) as its new President & CEO and Cengiz Seren taking over as Editor in Chief (2003-2012), EPA further expanded its photographic network and sales operations globally.

In 2014, EPA began producing video content in partnership with its main shareholder, Agencia EFE.

In 2022, with former EFE journalist Julia R. Arévalo as President & CEO (2020-present), EPA was rebranded as EPA Images and updated its bylaws to allow investment from outside Europe. Forty years after its creation, EPA Images operates and distributes an international press photo, video and multimedia service based on the production of its own 130 visual journalists and its shareholders' contribution

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