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UK based ‘Rock n Roll’ photographer Amy Barwell now has images available for licence at specialist music photo library The Hell Gate – owner Helen Giano says: “Ami Barwell’s portrait of Ian Brown (photo above) made us stand up and notice. We’ve been admirers for a while now and are thrilled to be representing her photography. Ami’s black & white film images are beautiful- possessing the lovely grainy quality you just cannot replicate with digital.”
View Amy’s portfolio here and license the images here.

If you have arrived at PhotoArchiveNews.com in search of stock photos for your publication please visit our Picture Libraries & Agencies page where you will find some of the finest picture libraries, photographers and photo agencies on the planet covering every image subject you could possibly require!
Isabelle Doran, Picture Library Manager at Loupe Images told us: “yes we?d certainly like to renew our listing, we have had a few clients saying they found us from the links on the site.”

Fraser Hall, Picture Editor at UK based photo library Robert Harding World Imagery, has created a gallery of his ‘most stunning, beautiful images uploaded to the library last month.’ Fraser says: “I always look out for photography that grabs the eye and I particularly love colour and strong, graphic compositions. A travel image should immediately transport you somewhere else and make you feel that you want to be there.”
View his choice and licence the images here.

Photo industry keywording company Keyword Smart are putting some serious time into free keywording advice and analysis through the company blog in a series called ’10 Ways that Stock Houses can be different in their Keywording Standards’. Every Thursday Keyword Smart founder Jody Apap (photo above) picks a well known photo library and takes an in depth look at how that library handels it’s keywording.
Great advice for stock photographers and photo libraries in general! – This week Jody explores Alamy: Image Keywording for Alamy.com

Media and Photo law specialists Swan Turton report:
INNOCENCE IS NO DEFENCE: HOFFMAN v DRUG ABUSE RESISTANCE EDUCATION (UK) LTD
The Patents County Court issued a much needed judgment last week on the subject of websites infringing copyright in photographs.

The defendant, a charity, used 19 of professional photographer David Hoffman’s photographs on its websites without permission. The defendant had been told by its design company that the photographs were Crown copyright and could be used, but this turned out not to be the case. The defendant refused to pay Hoffman arguing that it “had not intentionally or knowingly infringed his copyright” and “the Department of Health and their misleading web site were the cause of any infringement and not ourselves.”

As the judge (His Honour Judge Birss QC) explained, “The fact that the defendant may have thought that it had permission to use the images is not a defence to infringement … the policy of the law is that if there was in fact no permission, an infringement has occurred even if the person genuinely thought they had permission.”
Full report on the case here: Swan Turton
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BBC’s Tanya Beckett offers a (short) behind-the-scenes tour of the World Economic Forum in Davos, in the areas where the media organise their coverage – here: BBC

Jobs posted today on AboutTheImage.com
Electronic Records Policy and Program Coordinator – Virginia
Digital Preservation Librarian – Michigan

Drama which explores the love affair between photographer David Bailey and supermodel Jean Shrimpton after they are sent to New York for a prestigious Vogue photo shoot in 1962.
We’ll Take Manhattan

UK based photographer Peter Dench is now represented at Reportage By Getty Images.
They say: He works primarily in the editorial, portraiture, video and advertising fields of image making. He is a keen and astute observer of human nature, and in particular some of the more quirky aspects of life. His distinctive, strong reportage style, predominantly in color, has guaranteed regular commissions from a range of respected national and international publications including, among others; STERN Magazine, TIME, Weekend Guardian, Telegraph Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, GEO, Men’s Health, The National, GQ and Tatler.
See Peter’s tearsheets here.

The producer of a film about legendary picture editor John G Morris, 95, is looking for help getting the film funded and finished.
My name is Cathy Pearson and I have been making this film since Oct 2009 in the role of producer/director. I first met John G Morris in Paris in a serendipitous meeting in the lovely Chez Janou Restaurant in Le Marais district in Paris, John’s local neighborhood. He was 92 years old at the time. He told me stories about his times with Alfred Hitchcock, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Capa, Earnest Hemingway and Henri Cartier Bresson to name but a few of his peers. But what really stuck me about John was how informed he was about the world today and how interested he is so many current affairs, I am sure this is what keeps him so youthful and energetic. I read his professional memoir “Get the Picture” and then asked his permission to make a film about his life. He agreed and this is what is now unfolding. The film includes contributions form some of the worlds most renowned names in photography and journalism including Marc Riboud, Martine Franck, Paulo Pellegrin, Stanley Greene, Don McCullin, Christiane Amanpour, Yann Arthus Bertrand, Peter Turnley and New York Times staff photographers Chester Higgins Jr and Librado Romero and many at the Magnum Photo Agency.
Please join me on this incredible creative journey, through the world of photojournalism, history, humanity and time and become a part of the community involved in getting this film made and documenting an important part of our world history.
Watch the trailer above and find full details here.