About us / Imprint / Provider identification

Professional images of alpine regions

Specialized image agency

alpineSTOCK as a Swiss based stock photo agency, specializing in photographs from mountainous regions for more than 10 years. Main focus are alpine regions, however photographs from all mountainous or even hilly regions are offered – worldwide.  

Not only the Alps or single mountains are portrayed, but also landscapes, cities, towns, buildings, traffic and people as well as flora and fauna. In short: everything that is typical for these regions. An off-topic specialty are aviation images.

Image catalog

The image catalog of alpineSTOCK is handpicked. All photographs are subject to editorial selection and quality control. The image stock comprises simple photography for illustrations as well as creative art. 

Special emphasis is placed on exact geographic keywording and titling of all images. A constantly increasing number of photographs contain geodata. Animal and plant species are mostly keyworded with their Latin names.

Licenses

Licenses are mostly available as standard and extended royalty free license, our content creators offer several photographs also under rights managed license. Licensing follows a simple pricing structure.

Digital image formats

Our images are offered by default in JPG format in original file resolution. Many images are exclusively available with alpineSTOCK, a growing number of images can also be purchased in RAW format for own processing. 

Content Creators

Content Creators at alpineSTOCK are photographers with a passion for what they photograph. An admission as a Content Creator to alpineSTOCK depends on the quality of the created photographs, not on profession. 

Swiss Association of Picture Agencies and Photo Archives (SAB)

alpineSTOCK is a long-standing member of the Swiss Association of Picture Agencies and Photo Archives (SAB). Together with its members, SAB is committed to professional exchange among image agencies, networking with other associations and providing guidance on licenses, usage fees and copyrights. The SAB is the publisher of the SAB price recommendations, which include the current guideline prices for image licensing in Switzerland. alpineSTOCK uses these guidelines for rights managed licensing.

Media network PictureMaxx

alpineSTOCK is a member of the professional media network PictureMaxx, in which a large number of image agencies, archives and content portals offer their content. Customers include image editors, advertising agencies, news portals, publishers and many more.

Service for media buyers

• live search image catalog
• comprehensive filter options
• geographical search
• exact keywording
• handpicked photographs
• images in original size as JPG
• lots of exclusively offered photographs
• Royalty Free and Rights Managed licenses
• simple price structure
• no obligation to subscribe
• quick checkout
• instant downloads

Service for content creators

• comfortable upload
• selectable type of license
• selectable image sizes and formats
• easy metadata editing
• manual assignment of geodata
• insights in statistical data on own image stock
• statistics on sales
• high coverage achieved by distribution via PictureMaxx
• fair sales fee
• automatic notification about account actions and sales
• mediation of photo assignments

Don’t hesitate to contact us for details!