Aidan Sullivan started his career as a staff photographer for a local newspaper in the U.K. He then freelanced as a news photographer in Fleet Street covering stories, events and conflicts including Afghanistan, Northern Ireland and India. In 1986, he joined The Sunday Times as deputy picture editor, soon becoming the picture editor. In 1993, he joined the Sunday Times Magazine and was promoted to assistant editor. During this time Sullivan and two of his colleagues founded image.net, a leading distributor of high resolution publicity materials for major entertainment companies. image.net reinvented how entertainment giant’s distribute their publicity materials, by using a digital asset transfer system that Sullivan and his co-founders created. Getty Images acquired image.net in 2004 and he moved to Los Angeles to continue working with the image.net team. In 2005 he moved to New York and became Vice President of Photo Assignment for Getty Images, taking over assignments department including Orchard and Global assignment and creating the Reportage division. In the summer of 2008 he relocated back to London where he now runs the Photo Assignments for both Europe and North America.