CLEAR THE RIGHTS, CLEAR THE OCEAN

As the oldest owner-managed picture agency in Germany, starting with marine images, the protection of the oceans is particularly close to our hearts. That's why we are launching a special initiative on March 18, 2022 (Global Recycling Day) to support projects that remove plastic waste from the oceans: CLEAR THE RIGHTS, CLEAR THE OCEAN.

From now on, our images showing seas and oceans will have a ‘plasticmark’ instead of our typical watermark. With this, we want to make the pollution of the oceans by plastic and microplastic visible. We are also creating an easy way for you, our customers and partners, to actively help free the oceans from plastic.

Anyone who licenses one of our sea or ocean images and thus frees it from the ‘plasticmark’, is not only doing so symbolically: a part of the license fee goes to global projects that work to remove plastic waste from our oceans for real.

Because the oceans are drowning in plastic. This is a global problem that is becoming ever bigger. The issue is significant enough for the UN to pass a historic resolution at its environmental assembly in Nairobi in March: a legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution by the end of 2024. With CLEAR THE RIGHTS, CLEAR THE OCEAN, we want to make a contribution to this goal.

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