BiographyPhoto publisher. Pacific & Atlantic was subsumed by United Press International (UPI). The UPI archives, including Pacific & Atlantic images, was bought by CORBIS, which controlled the copying of UPI/Pacific & Atlantic images physically housed in its archives in New York City. In 2016, CORBIS was, in turn, sold to Visual China Group (VCG), which arranged to have Getty Images be the exclusive distributor of CORBIS images outside of China.