 The idea of fotoLibra came about when founder Gwyn Headley lost 120 years of his family’s photographs in a flood.With a background in book publishing, he felt that publishers would have a need for previously unpublished photographs and for images that could not be taken again.The original intention of the business was to provide a repository of family archives, but the ability to aggregate images uploaded from multiple sources and to make them available for download and purchase anywhere in the world caught the attention of contemporary photographers, and the company now operates largely as a general commercial digital picture library.