news media founded paris 1973 headquarters paris france products newspictures revenue 15.5 million 2010 number of employees 91 parent dapd news agency website www.sipa.com sipa press is a french photo agency based in paris . overview edit it was founded 1973 by the turkish newsphotographer and photojournalist g k in sipahio lu 1 together with american writer phyllis springer concentrating their activities from the beginning on photojournalism . sipa press is in france the leading photo agency distributing up to 6000 newspictures every day to customers in more than 40 countries worldwide . they cover politics economy entertainment and sports . 20 million pictures are filed in sipa s archives and 12 million in its digital database . 2 citation needed the editorial staff consists of 91 members about 600 correspondents contribute to the service . most significant partnerships exist with associated press rex features in the united kingdom and la presse in italy . citation needed in july 2011 sipa press was taken over by the german dapd news agency managing director being heinrich ollendiek . 3 4 in october 2012 the dapd filed for insolvency protection with all six of its subsidiaries declaring bankruptcy . 5 references edit in pictures the work of goksin sipahioglu bbc online retrieved 31 january 2012 sipa press the foremost photo press agency in france sipa press website retrieved 31 january 2012 dead link french photo agency sipa press sold to dapd boston.com july 11 2011 sipa press interview with the new owner la lettre de la photographie.com retrieved 31 january 2012 german news agency declares bankruptcy the guardian october 3 2012 . retrieved january 31 2013 . external links edit official site sipa press en fr retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sipa press & oldid 704328554 categories news agencies based in francestock photographyphoto archivescompanies established in 1973photojournalism organizationscompanies based in parishidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2014pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aissuomit rk e edit links this page was last modified on 10 february 2016 at 23 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view