IAPA International Aviation Photography Agency

Core Business

The leading Aviation Photography Agency in Belgium.

Toward commercial airlines, general aviation companies, private aircraft owners, aviation schools & clubs, publishers and editors of aviation publications, IAPA, the International Aviation Photography Agency is available for all their assignments to enhance their needs for professional photography both on firm ground and in the air.If aviation is your business or pleasure... then IAPA is your solution for all your photographic needs! Whether you're looking for an image that enhances your product, or a product that enhances your image, IAPA can handle your requests.

Beside the aviation air-to-air photography, in which IAPA is the leading company in Belgium, the agency is also available for all commercial aerial photography of your industrial plants and projects, your infrastructure and factories, as well as for landscape aerial photography assignments for editorial or personal use. Results of your assignments are provides on CD ROM or DVD in .TIFF, .JPG, BMP or any other requested digital format, in files sizes from 4MB up to 60 MB per file which allows photo prints in sizes up to 70x100 cm and more. The agency is also available to the automobile & motor business and your personal purposes for photo shoots on location, highlighting your products with the dynamic world of aviation as background.IAPA has the capability to provide your company with the perfect photography for all your publicity, leaflets, calendars, brochures and any other publications.If you want to spruce up your establishment, office or home, we can offer you many original fine art quality prints on high-quality glossy or matte photo paper in a variety of sizes, mounted and/or framed at your directions provided by our professional photo services. IAPA owns a large photo database, with photographs of historical and present aviation and photo reports of the latest aviation events available to editors of magazines, newspapers and books Finally, if you wanted your marriage, anniversary, jubilee or any other "Special Day" celebrated with an exclusive photo shoot in and around an old-timer or aerobatic aircraft, or want your first flying experience in one of these, IAPA can handle this, offering you an everlasting remembrance of your "Special Day".

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Antoine "Twan" Roels, director of IAPA, joined the Belgian Air Force in 1965. During the last 15 years of his 38-year long career he has been the official photographer for the BAF - Public Affairs Services. In that function he flew air-to-air photo missions in all the types of BAF aircraft and was responsible for the photography in the official BAF publications and countless reports for international aviation books and magazines. After his retirement from the Belgian Air Force in 2003, he founded IAPA, the International Aviation Photography Agency.The year long experience and practical knowledge, and the best digital CANON photo equipment guarantees excellent results for all your assignments. For his air-to-air assignments he can appeal on professional pilots most experienced in safe formation flying and the most suitable aircraft, -from open canopy training aircraft till fast jets. These allows perfect photoshoot conditions as well for slow aircraft as for the fastest commercial, business or military jets.He logged nearly 4000 flying hours for air-to-air photography in over 150 different aircraft types of several air forces and flew and photographed with most of the aerobatic display teams as 'Patrouille de France', 'Red Arrows', 'Frecce Tricolori', 'Patrulla Aguila', 'Patrouille de Suisse', 'Canadian Snowbirds', and 'Biele Albatrosy'.In the period from 1995 - 1997, he was assigned for most of the aerial photography for the Belgian VRT television production 'Windkracht 10', a 23 episodes long fiction TV series about life, love and adventures of the pilots and crews of the 40th Search and Rescue Squadron of Koksijde AFBRecently photo assignments has been completed for SN Brussels Airlines, with pictures at Brussels Airport and air-to-airís above the Belgian coast and VLM Airlines with an air-to-air photoshoot above the harbor of Antwerp, Extra Aviation and Dexia Bank Belgium, Antoine Roels is also member of ISAP, The International Society of Aviation Photographers, society that gathers the leading aviation photographers of the world.

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