Aurora Photos blends extraordinary editorial and commercial photography: spectacular adventure sports and outdoor lifestyle, inspirational travel, telling journalism, engaging geography and cultures, and illuminating looks at our environment. We add diverse new material daily, always with a focus on excellence. Real and released, rights managed or royalty free, are all found in our growing archive. Clients praise our superior customer service and the work of our more than 200 contributors.
To this, Aurora adds the images from premier international photography agencies such as Agence Vu and Cosmos from France, Bilderberg and Gruppe28 from Germany, ParalleloZero and TerraProject from Italy, Invision and IML from Greece, Axiom, Specialist Stock, Stillpictures and AWL from the United Kingdom, Cultura, Image Source and hundreds of thousands of images from other photographers and agencies through our partnership with the Independent Photographers Network.

Aurora serves a broad spectrum of media needs beyond stock, offering traditional photographic assignments and full video production services through our sister company Novus Select. Whether it's stock, assignments, or multimedia, Aurora has it all.

Our clients range from magazines such as National Geographic, TIME, Newsweek, Fortune, Smithsonian GEO, Stern and many others comparable publications worldwide, to corporate clients like Apple Computer, LL Bean, Volkswagen and more.

Aurora Photos is based in Portland, Maine with offices in New York and California. Aurora's assignment division, Aurora Select, is located in New York, and a multimedia and video production sister company, Aurora Novus, is located in Portland.