The first editorial photos ever published by The Daily Mirror were taken by a photographer working in Japan in 1904.

From those rare early pioneering assignments through more than a century of global coverage, the skill of our photojournalists has always been in understanding the impact that global events have on the people who live through them and being able to tell their story to our readers back home.

As a result, our photographic collections provide one of the largest visual archives of modern world history, told from a British perspective.

You can read more about the history of the Mirror photographic archives and some of the photographers who made them so special here >

Working with the archive

You can search our digital collections online here at mirrorpix.com

Currently the site offers over 300,000 images from our photographic archives and new photographic collections are added daily. Our physical picture archives are much larger than this, estimated to contain at least 60 million images. These photographic collections can be accessed via our dedicated researchers who will undertake the research on your behalf and find you the pictures you need for your creative projects.

To get started simply register with us and then search for the pictures you need. If you cannot find what you're looking for simply send your enquiry to desk@mirrorpix.com or call us on +44 (0)20 7293 3700 Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm

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