This year again, the CEPIC Congress broke all records of attendance : 625 delegates from 375 companies, all dealing with pictures, 50 countries and five continents came to Denmark to meet, make business and have fun.

The set of pictures below will give you an overview of what  it was like at Congress 2004 in Wonderful Copenhagen

All pictures are CEPIC copyright  © unless otherwise stated.  Please click on the picture to get credit and source.

Sources are : POLFOTO (Denmark), VISUM (Germany), Topham Picturepoint  and Rex Features (UK), Stockbyte (Ireland), A21 (USA)

"We've got used to CEPIC, the umbrella organisation of European Picture Agencies, speaking in superlatives" writes Stefan Hartmann in VISUELL (4/04) "And this time was no exception"  CEPIC is "the biggest congregation of image distribution companies in the world"

Read more here :
"Copenhagen - or when pictures became scarce" A report on the atmosphere at the CEPIC Congress 2004

The main part of the Congress took place in Børsen the 17th century Stock Exchange of Copenhagen.

King Christian IV had a Latin inscription made above the entrance doors at both ends of the building. The English version of this inscription is the following:
"Christian IV, the almighty King of Denmark and Norway, the Wends and the Goths, the fine father of the Fatherland, the fortunate administrator of the property of the Country, has followed in the footsteps of great kings before him and with tremendous eagerness to introduce wealthy trade centres to his countries, he has founded Børsen here before you - not for the secret ploys of Mercury and Laverna, but first and foremost in God's honour, and then for the profitable use of buyers and sellers."

Click here for opening speech of Alan Smith, President of CEPIC on the latest trends in the industry.

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