Now the organisation has launched a series of Royalty Free collections in which all images are model-released and available for multiple usages, including advertising, for a single fee.
Africa Media Online’s online picture library management and sales system, called MEMAT (Media Market Technologies), is used by organisations and professional photographers to display their collections of high resolution images on a website (in some instances for purchase) in a secure way.
The African Image Pipeline (AIP) project was made possible with 70% grant funding from the European Union through Gijima KwaZulu-Natal,[1][2] launches EU funded African Image Pipeline project an initiative of South Africa's Department of Economic Development.
The African Image Pipeline enables the organisation to train photographers from historically disadvantaged backgrounds; digitise 32 000 images from photographers and the heritage sector; upgrade the MEMAT online media library system; translate the African Archival Thesaurus, which allows images to be searched, into the major trade languages of Africa; and gain greater penetration into global media markets.
A project between the World Press Photo Foundation, Freevoice [3] and Lokaalmondiaal,[4] and sponsored by the Dutch Postcode Lottery, it aimed to encourage media professionals to creatively produce and distribute articles, images, broadcasts and multimedia productions related to African football ahead of the FIFA World Cup held in South Africa in 2010.