arabianEye About

arabianEye is the leading global visual content provider in the MENA region. The company’s focus is the distribution and production of stock images and videos, and serves a global network of both editorial and commercial clients.

arabianEye represents Corbis in the MENA region. Corbis has exceptional creative, documentary, archival, fine art, current events, and entertainment images to help the creative community produce distinctive work for web sites, magazines, newspapers, books, television, and films. Corbis Motion brings you instant access to archival and contemporary content, as well as breathtaking HD footage.

Creative Images: arabianEye produces and shoots exclusive material for its archive and clients. Carefully researched content with genuine regional knowledge is regularly uploaded to the site. arabianEye balances global visual trends with regional cultural sensitivities.

Editorial Images: arabianEye’s team of photographers based around the MENA region document the most important social, cultural and environmental issues.

Motion Content: arabianEye has expanded to house a growing collection of rare regional video clips.

arabianEye is a member of Emicom Media, an independent media group with global reach formed in April 2011. Emicom Media is a group of diverse brands, uniquely complemented to meet the ever-evolving demands of the world’s leading media, corporate and marketing organisations.

See our other websites for more information:
Magnet – Photographers, Production, Locations
Alchemy – Video Production
The Studio – Film and Stills Studio
Bareface – Talent and Model Agency
Corbis – Global Content
Greenlight – Rights Release

If you would like to become a contributor to arabianEye, please begin by submitting 30 low resolution images (around 500 kb) to either info@arabianEye.com or via our FTP. If you are submitting images for the first time, please include two sample high resolution jpg files.

Please also submit your bio, an overview of the number of images and the concepts you have shot, as well as information on the cameras you have used.

Click here to download our full Submission Guidelines Adobe PDF document.
Click here to download our Model Release PDF document.
Click here to download our Property Release PDF document.

Footage:
What type of footage are we looking for?
We seek interesting footage from the Middle East. arabianEye seeks both editorial and creative material to add to its growing collection.

Here are the key pointers:
We accept content shot on HD or SD, or film converted to an SD or HD format.
Content must be submitted digitally (hard drive or DVD).
Model and Property releases are required with all images/footage where relevant and must be supplied in digital format.
Metadata must also be supplied to us digitally: please ask us for our guidelines.

Submit a Sample of Your Work
Please email us your answers to the "Questions for Footage Supplier" to sales@arabianEye.com. We will then get back to you with our feedback and next steps.

After this review, you will be asked to submit a few samples of your footage (around 10 clips) for review: either via our FTP (email us for details) or on a DVD via post to:

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at sales@arabianEye.com


Postal Address:
arabianEye FZ LLC
PO Box 502650, Dubai Studio City, Dubai, UAE

arabianEye has recently been restructured to become one of 7 brands under a new holding company, Emicom Media. Our stills and video production, photographer representation and locations are now under the following websites:

Magnet – Photographers, Production, Locations
Alchemy – Video Production
The Studio – Film and Stills Studio
Bareface – Talent and Model Agency
Corbis – Global Content
Greenlight – Rights Release

The teams are now the combined forces of some of the leading media brands in the MENA region. Business as usual, we look forward to hearing from you!

arabianEye creates custom photo and video library systems for clients who require a large number of exclusive visual content to be used across a wide range of media. Currently, arabianEye has established successful systems for a number of high profile Middle Eastern commercial clients. The result is a cost-effective collection of content for the exclusive use of your company.

For more details, please get in touch on sales@arabianEye.com or by calling us on our mainline at + 971 4 361 6098.

If you’d like to discuss a project or you’re interested in working with us, we’d love to hear from you:

Postal Address:
PO Box 502650, Dubai Media City, Dubai, UAE

Physical Address:
Business Central Towers, Tower A, Office 2801, Dubai Media City.

Telephone:
+971 (0) 4 428 5740
Fax:
+971 (0) 4 428 5721
Email: sales@arabianEye.com

Working hours:
Sunday to Thursday, 9am to 6pm

Out of office hours:
sales@arabianEye.com

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