Topical Press Agency

The Topical Press Agency was a British photo agency active in the first half of the twentieth century.

Founded in 1903, it employed almost 1,500 representatives worldwide by its peak in 1929, selling the work of a team of photographers based in London. As well as contemporary press photography, the company also focused on sales of stock images. With changing patterns in news publishing, the company dwindled until it eventually went bankrupt in 1957, with the bulk of the archives acquired by the Hulton Picture Library, now part of Getty Images.

Prominent photographers working for Topical included John Warwick Brooke, one of the first official British photographers of the First World War.