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                       GETTY IMAGES ACQUIRES SPORTING PIX;
                        CONTINUES EXPANSION IN AUSTRALIA

LONDON - Getty Images Inc. (NASDAQ: GETY), the leading international provider of
high quality visual content, announced today that it will expand its presence in
Australia with the acquisition of Sporting Pix, a Melbourne-based sports
photography agency. The new Melbourne office will supplement the work done by
Sydney-based Allsport Australia and by other Getty Images divisions in
Australia.

The acquisition is part of Getty's strategy to own and operate offices in key
markets in order to build client relationships and increase sales. In line with
this strategy, Getty now has an unrivalled network of 14 wholly owned outlets in
all the major markets for visual content as well as agents in 54 countries. This
network supplements Getty's industry leading digital distribution network via
the Internet. Getty is the leading provider of visual content in the world, both
in analogue format and on the web.

Getty's focus has been to become the global leader in visual content through
consolidating the stock photography and film industry and then applying leading
edge digital technology to grow the market.

Australia is strategically important for Getty in its objective to increase
penetration in the growing Pacific Rim territory. The acquisition builds Getty's
base there and also provides Getty's Allsport Australia division with more
resources to meet the needs of the new business it expects to be generated by
the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. Allsport is the official photographer
of the International Olympic Committee and of the US Olympic Committee.

"We expect to see continued growth both for our sports business and in the
Australian market ahead of and during the 2000 Summer Olympic Games," said
Jonathan Klein, Chief Executive Officer of Getty Images. "This acquisition gives
Getty Images and Allsport a much-needed base in Melbourne to complement the
office we have already established in Sydney. Building on our strong base in
Australia as the Olympics approach should mean that Allsport will be able to
provide the best photography of the Sydney games throughout the world to a
client base increasingly reliant on Allsport for their sports photography."

                                NOTES TO EDITORS

Description of Getty Images, Inc.

Getty Images (NASDAQ: GETY) is one of the leading international providers of
visual content to a diverse range of professional users of images, including
advertising and design agencies, magazines, newspapers, broadcasters, production
companies and traditional and new media publishers. Getty Images markets rights
to images and footage through its international network of wholly owned offices
in London, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, Munich, Hamburg,
Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Vienna, Barcelona, Sydney,
Tokyo and Hong Kong and agents in 54 countries.

Getty Images' high quality visual content collections are: (i) Tony Stone Images
(www.tonystone.com), one of the world's leading providers of contemporary stock
photography; (ii) PhotoDisc (www.photodisc.com), a world leader in digital stock
photography and electronic delivery; (iii) Allsport (www.allsport.com), a
leading world-wide sports picture agency; (iv) Hulton Getty
(www.hultongetty.com), one of 



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the two largest privately owned collections of archival photography in the
world; (v) Liaison Agency (www.liaisonphoto.com), a leading North American news
and reportage agency; and (vi) Energy Film Library (www.digital-energy.com), one
of the world's leading stock footage companies. Further information is available
from the group's website at www.getty-images.com.


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