please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message arenapal performing arts images type private industry photo archive photo library publishing photography and the performing arts genre photography founded 1997 headquarters london united kingdom area served worldwide services image licensing picture research archival services arts photography commissions website www.arenapal.com arenapal is a uk company based in central london which specialises in the licensing of performing arts images both in the uk and throughout the world . the arenapal website serves as a portal to the company s primary search facility and distribution outlet in 2013 www.arenapal.com launched its new imageflows powered search engine . its collection falls under the main categories of opera theatre classical and contemporary music classical and contemporary dance as well as educational imagery covering all categories . it has a library of 3 million images with over 350 000 currently view able online . the library also holds thousands of unscanned prints negatives and transparencies . these are digitised as part of its on site archival scanning project . it is currently the largest specialist image library of its kind in the world . citation needed contents 1 history 2 collections 3 photographers 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit arenapal was founded in 1997 as the first fully digitised performing arts archive . unlike most specialist photographic agencies it has worked with a wide range of contributors from its inception . the company continues to expand its extensive archive as well as taking in submissions of contemporary performance including theatre ballet dance and opera productions plus classical music rock pop and jazz events . arenapal is also a photographic commissions agency with a roster of arts photographers including clive barda richard cannon eric richmond and hilary shedel . arenapal is a member of bapla the british association of picture libraries and agencies . collections edit the following archives and collections are represented by arenapal the royal academy of dance garsington opera glyndebourne festival opera including the guy gravett collection and mike hoban collection the boosey and hawkes collection the stanislavski collection rose bruford college of theatre and performance 1 the darryl williams dance library the mander and mitchenson theatre archive 2 bertram park and yvonne gregory archive the university of bristol theatre collection the john vickers archive the cameron mackintosh library the noel gay organisation the ronald grant film and tv archive ria novosti culture prussian heritage image archive bpk indaipicture andia france and the original performing arts library pal . exclusive franchise . as of 2013 arenapal exclusively represent the opera and dance archives of the royal opera house . in 2015 the library saw exclusive representation of the royal college of music . photographers edit arenapal represents the archives of many photographers of the performing arts including herv allemand frazer ashford clive barda 3 alan bergman conrad blakemore sisi burn sheila burnett henrietta butler richard cannon hanya chlala nobby clark ian dickson mark douet mark ellidge guy gravett sasha gusov jamie hodgson jak kilby marilyn kingwill ivan kync morris newcombe nigel norrington johan persson linda rich eric richmond ron scherl hilary shedel herb snitzer john timbers allan titmuss john vickers darryl williams see also edit photography portal image hosting service list of online image archives list of photo sharing websites references edit the stanislavski centre archive overview . theatrefutures.org.uk . theatre futures . retrieved 12 october 2016 . bapla news exclusive to arenapal the mander and mitchenson theatre collection bbc music magazine talking pictures clive barda guides us through 40 years of viewing conductors composers singers and players through the lens of a camera external links edit www.arenapal.com arenapal at the british association of picture libraries and agencies bapla f2 freelance photographer licence to sell arenapal managing director biddy hayward talks to sue harper about its specialist service and the close relationship maintained with its photographers june july 2009 issue retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title arenapal & oldid 744067526 categories stock photographyphoto archivescompanies based in londoncompanies established in 1998photography companiesphotography in the united kingdom1998 establishments in englandhidden categories articles needing additional references from october 2016all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from november 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces 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