About Visual Connections

Visual Connections (formerly Picturehouse Marketing US) is all about connecting you to buyers of visual media.

We offer a portfolio of marketing services to suppliers of visual media and related services, including stock image and footage agencies, photographers, production companies, and font foundries. We are totally focused on the image licensing industry and are therefore uniquely placed, in terms of knowledge and contacts, to help you develop your business.

We run annual trade fairs in New York and Chicago, attended by hundreds of professional visual media buyers, which are a fantastic opportunity to gain new business and build loyalty from existing clients. We manage an international online directory of visual media suppliers, and we offer a variety of other cost-effective marketing and promotion services, from print advertising to press release distribution.

The Team

Visual Connections (formerly Picturehouse Marketing US) is owned and run by two leading professionals in the stock image industry:

Deborah Free has 21 years of experience in developing and marketing stock agencies, as President of Natural Selection until 1998, long-term consultant to StockFood, and organizer of industry events in New York, Chicago and San Francisco since 2003.

Edward Leigh has 18 years of experience of IT in the stock photo industry, as Research & Development Manager at Getty Images until 1996, and as a technical consultant to many agencies starting up or making the transition to the digital age.

Together with Jerry Tavin and Janou Pakter, they founded the Young Photographers Alliance in 2009 to inspire, nurture and promote the next generation of image makers.

The company

Visual Connections LLC was originally incorporated as Picturehouse Marketing US, LLC after acquiring exclusive rights from Michael Brown of picturehouse marketing ltd (UK) to hold events in North America using the Picturehouse name. Visual Connections® and Image Sources are both trading names of Visual Connections LLC. Visual Connections LLC is registered in Genesee County, New York, USA.

picturehouse marketing ltd is a separate company, registered in the UK and directed by Michael Brown, who owns the picturehouse name and trademark. The company was started in 2001 and has run events in countries around the world.