Music Pictures Ltd. is an independent photo agency which specializes in licensing music and music-related photography. It first went online in 2001. Formerly working in cooperation with Redferns picture library, it became fully independent when Getty Images bought the Redferns archive in 2009. The agency is based in Berlin, Germany but serves clients from around the world. It claims to have 60,000 images online, covering 15,000 artists. It focuses on the editorial market, which it supplies through its website. The website allows customers to license and download images on account. The licensing cost of the image depends on use and resolution.
The company's Managing Director is Simon Redfern, son of British music photographer David Redfern. He is also the Managing Director of TESOBE, another Berlin-based company, which specializes in IT solutions and created the Music Pictures website.
The agency represents photographers, who upload images directly to the website. Concert photography, especially from the beginning of the 90s, accounts for the majority of the agency's collection. Award-winning Music Pictures photographers include Jenny Hardcore and Charlie Raven.
Collections of photographs include The Faces, The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones. The agency also licenses photographs on behalf of PYMCA, Jazz Archive Hamburg and DOSFOTOS.