photo: Georgia May Jagger © fameflynet.uk.com

Fast growing celebrity photo agency FameFlynet has secured another territory to it’s global agency network with the announcement of a new partner in Australia, Snapper Media. The news comes almost one year to the date when FameFlynet announced the launch of a Europe wide network of agencies.
Snapper Media will become Fameflynet Australia. This new partnership will strengthen the agency’s relationships within Australia and New Zealand and their wealth of acclaimed publications and media outlets.

FameFlynet President Boris Nizon told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning, “It is fantastic news that Sanpper Media have agreed to become part of the network. Since the launch of the Fameflynet network in May 2012 we have become one of the largest global celebrity picture agencies. The addition of Fameflynet Australia strengthens our position in the global marketplace and also opens up the ever growing markets in the Far East. We are now a dominant force across three continents, we do not intend to stop here”.
Melissa Kelly, Managing Director of Snapper says, “Snapper Media is very excited to be part of the growing global FameFlynet network. The FameFlynet brand is an impressive addition to Snapper’s existing roster of leading international and local celebrity agencies and photographers.”

• The Australian partnership will be FameFlynet’s 10th partner, following the addition of territories in Italy and Finland.
• Read all FameFlynet news on PhotoArchiveNews here

See TopFoto and the work of John Topham featuring on BBC1’s The One Show this week.
Watch live on BBC1, Wednesday 22 May at 7pm (with 5 million others!) or via BBC iPlayer for the following 7 days.

They say: Available to license exclusively from TopFoto.co.uk, John Topham’s first work was in the late 1920s in the East End of London, and strictly against the rules since he was a policeman. Selling one picture of Mary Smith (the knocker up armed with a pea shooter) to the Daily Mirror for five pounds determined him to start up as a freelance, which he remained for the rest of his life.

Topham then based himself on the spreading edges of South East London documenting both urban and rural life – and the clash zones. After that came a handful of defining civilian war experiences, time in RAF Intelligence and, after the war, “a life of picturing the ordinary in an extraordinary way”.

Vintage, nostalgia, the British home front, pre-war and post-war Britain, funny and touching moments … the way we were.

This in from a PAN reader:

Hi Will,

Can you please recommend a company that will clean up some of personal images and scan them professionally to a high resolution suitable for a book. There are 108, including 48 in colour.

answers to: Will@photoarchivenews.com

Martin Parr, David Hurn and Chris Steele-Perkins are among a rostra of Magnum photographers featured on a new tumblr blog showing behind the scenes shots of Magnum photographers shooting the Open for Business project across the British manufacturing industry.

They say: Open for Business will be the largely untold story of British manufacturing and industry through the lens of the world’s greatest photographers. Multistory will work in partnership with Magnum Photos to commission 9 world-renowned Magnum photographers to document and record manufacturing industries in 9 British cities. Multistory will work with 9 cultural partners to show the work in their venues and create a major touring exhibition during 2014/15. This project will give people across the UK new access to great art and encourage them to engage with their local area.

↑ This in from our what’s-on-TV reporter Mark Leech, MD at sports photo agency Offside… showing a question during BBC Four TV programme Only Connect Quiz show in which teams draw together the connections between seemingly random things.
… Mark commented: “Oi, Coren, what about Offside ?”

Cracking! – more like this please to: will@photoarchivenews.com

Corbis have launched Corbis CRAVE – a digital boutique offering a portfolio of hand-curated imagery available both as an iPad application and a website. They say: ‘CRAVE images are inspirational, trend relevant and feature the best of the best when it comes to premium commercial photography. The expert-curated galleries and artist portfolios tell the story behind the images, as well as the artist and his or her work. CRAVE contains a collection of images showcasing contemporary lifestyle, documentary, historical, celebrity, beauty and fine art.’
The image platform has been developed exclusively for iPad® and as an accompanying web experience.
“Corbis CRAVE provides creative directors and art buyers a search and ideation experience tailored to their unique and specific needs whether they’re accessing the collection on their iPad or through the website,” said Edie Tobias, senior vice president of commercial products at Corbis.
Web here
App here

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• Tuesday 11 June, from 11.00 H to 18.45 H: Photocentric Day/ Photo Agency – View programme
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Release Date: May 15, 2013
$65.00 hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-292-74408-0
10 x 12 inches, 288 pages, 166 color and b&w photos
by Michael Kamber – publisher University of Texas Press

Michael Kamber, a writer and photojournalist for over 25 years, who covered the Iraq War for the New York Times between 2003 and 2012, interviewed thirty-nine colleagues for the book, many of them from leading news organizations including Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Magnum, Newsweek, the New York Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time, the Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and the Washington Post.

The photojournalists who documented the war in Iraq faced a new kind of urban warfare. To the roadside bombs, snipers, and Katyusha rockets, Iraq added assassins, kidnappers and deadly street mobs; each photographer soon became as much target as observer. Tellingly, more photojournalists were killed in Iraq than in any other modern conflict; hundreds were abducted and wounded, or narrowly escaped death. Despite the great personal risks, some stayed and worked amidst increasingly brutal conditions as the war escalated from “shock and awe” invasion, to occupation, to insurgency, to civil war. With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts by an incredibly diverse group of the world’s top news photographers, Photojournalists on War (University of Texas Press, May 2013) presents a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the Middle East.
The hard-hitting accounts of these practitioners would be rare in the annals of any war, yet here they reveal the inside and untold stories behind the headlines in Iraq. Each interview is logged with the year and location it took place, and is accompanied by a selection of the photographer’s work made on and off the battlefield.
The Photographers in Photojournalists on War are:
Lynsey Addario – Christoph Bangert – Patrick Baz – Nina Berman – Ben Brody – Andrea Bruce – Guy Calaf – Patrik Chauvel – Alan Chin – Carolyn Cole – Jerome Delay – Marco Di Lauro – Ashley Gilbertson – Stanley Greene – Todd Heisler – Tyler Hicks – Eros Hoagland – Chris Hondros – Ed Kashi – Karim Ben Khelifa – Wathiq Khuzaie – Gary Knight – Yuri Kozyrev – Rita Leistner – Benjamin Lowy – Zoriah Miller – Khalid Mohammed – John Moore – Peter Nicholls – Farah Nosh – Gilles Peress – Scott Peterson – Lucian Read – Eugene Richards – Ahmad Al-Rubaye – João Silva – Stephanie Sinclair – Bruno Stevens – Peter van Agtmael

↑ Click to watch the BBC Magazine video: …’The book’s editor Michael Kamber, a photojournalist who covered the war for the New York Times, has been speaking to Michael Maher.’

UK based photo library Topfoto have kicked off an in-depth image edit celebrating their representation of the Roger-Viollet collection. They say: In honour and celebration of the 75th anniversary of Paris-based Roger-Viollet … we announce French Month! First in this “entente cordiale” series is to look at Marseille-Provence which is this years’ European Capital of Culture, with a colourful history all of it’s own… There will be a host of events taking place throughout the year and the summer will see revellers and culture lovers basking in events designed for the sunny days and balmy evenings.
Click here the Marseilles image selection
Click here for Roger-Viollet at TopFoto

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