The photo Agency Roger-Viollet entrusted Communic’Art with the media campaign its new website launch.

Roger-Viollet, created in 1938, is engaged since 1998 in a program of digitization of their photo collections (350 000 images have been digitized so far).

Today, Roger-Viollet sells photo rigths to the press, publishers and broadcasters. The agency represents a number of foreign archives in France, as well as funds from independent photographers.

Roger-Viollet is a subsidiary of Parisienne de Photographie, a SAEML (a semi-public company) responsible for digitazing and promotic the photographic funds of the City of Paris.

On May 17th, after a test period, Roger-Viollet launches its new website www.roger-viollet.fr. The website offers over 350 000 images that tell one hundred and fifty years of history.

The new website -more complete, more functional and faster- presents larger images of the documents available. The website allows access to many thematic dossiers conceived by Roger-Viollet on various topics.

From big events and small businesses, arts, science, politics and daily life, travels and streets of Paris, portraits of famous and unknown men and women … So many unique documents available on the website www.roger-viollet.fr.

Furthermore, Roger-Viollet distributes nearly 10 million digitized images on demand for professionals.

To be noted:

For the general public, a selection of images from the Roger-Viollet collections can be found and downloaded in low resolution on the site www.parisenimages.fr.

>Download the press pack<