fotoLibra was an open access picture library / stock agency.
It was founded in 2002, produced a beta site in March 2004 and launched commercially in January 2005.
fotoLibra claimed to be the first open access fully digital stock agency.
The idea of fotoLibra came about when founder Gwyn Headley lost 120 years of his family’s photographs in a flood.
The original intention of the business was to provide a repository of family archives, but the ability to aggregate images uploaded from multiple sources and to make them available for download and purchase anywhere in the world caught the attention of contemporary photographers, and the company now operates largely as a general commercial digital picture library.