LEWIS PR has launched LEWIS Imagebank, a searchable online library of royalty-free photography.

Visitors to www.lewisimagebank.com can search by category or keyword over 3,000 images, created by LEWIS’ in-house photographers, and download them for use in their own marketing or PR.

LEWIS Imagebank, completely designed and developed internally, is a natural extension of the agency’s portfolio. It represents the first of many services set to emerge from the newly-created LEWIS client services team, according to Jon Silk, client services director at LEWIS PR.

Each image costs £80 for the royalty-free use of a low-resolution version, and £150 for high-resolution. LEWIS Imagebank has a built-in shopping cart function (using PayPal), as well as RSS feeds so anyone can track new images as they are created and uploaded.

Silk added: “In the face of an impending economic downturn, companies’ expectations of PR and marketing begin to shift. The next step for us will be to take the success of our other integrated services, from analyst relations and government lobbying to web design and copywriting, and let other organisations take advantage of them directly.”