Founded in 1983 and incorporated in 2011, GAMMA Photos is a worldwide group of photographers with a single shared mission ... to record the world as it appears to them for the benefit of future generations. Its ideals are to document all manner of human life with uncompromising excellence, truth, respect and independence. Photographers with GAMMA Photos are not simply passive bystanders to life, they are an active element of the social landscape in which they create their images. Each has an ability to see human life at its most personal and most intimate. The GAMMA photographers do not seek out major events or well-known personalities, nor do they seek to create necessarily commercial images; they look for the commonplace, the local, the vernacular and the distinctive. The online archive of GAMMA Photos provides an ever-growing record that documents the changing human world. GAMMA Photos is not a membership organisation. It is an international group of like-minded photographers. Applications to become an accredited photographer of GAMMA Photos are welcomed from any photographer who shares the mission and ideals of the group.