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Skyscan Company Profile
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| Skyscan is the husband and wife partnership of Brenda and Andy Marks based at their home/office north of Cheltenham in the Cotswolds.
Established in 1984, they have photographed Britain from the air using an innovative tethered balloon borne platform on which is mounted a remotely controlled camera system with feed down through the cable to a TV monitor in the ground vehicle, a Land Rover, enabling the pictures to be framed as required.
With this highly manoeuvrable system they have built up a large aerial photolibrary over twenty-five years and completed several book projects as Authors as well as supplying aerial photographs to all sectors of the publishing, advertising and media industries.
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Since 1997 Skyscan have represented many other aerial and aviation photographers, supplying and licensing their photographs through the Skyscan Photolibrary. These photographers use a variety of aerial platforms to capture their imagery and Skyscan organise photographic commissions for their clients from masts, helicopters, planes, tethered balloons, hot air balloons, microlights and even satellites |
Old air photos of the UK
In 1997 Skyscan developed a service to locate and supply historic aerial photographs of the UK using their extensive knowledge of the industry to search out old air photos for their clients. There are millions of aerial
photographs captured over several decades residing around the country in the storage facilities of different surveying companies.
Skyscan have the knowledge to search through these survey records to locate suitable photos for their clients.
As an extension of this service, the opportunities arose in 2008 and 2009 to acquire the large and important historic aerial archives of the London Aerial and Chorley Handford/ Realistic companies who were prominent in the UK aerial photography business from 1958 to recent times. Over 200,000 negatives and prints from these archives can be manually searched and are currently being catalogued into a computerised system for online searching in the future. Further details can be found by following the links.
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