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IPC Media To Restructure Around Audience

Evelyn Webster, CEO of IPC Media, announces a new company structure, effective 4 January 2010, organised around three audience groups of men, mass-market women and up-market women.
• IPC Inspire will be the men's division, comprising leisure pursuits, men's lifestyle and music brands, headed by managing director Paul Williams.
• IPC Connect will be the mass-market women's division, comprising women's weeklies, the goodtoknow network and the TV entertainment brands, headed by managing director Fiona Dent.
• IPC Southbank, the up-market women's division, will continue to comprise the fashion, beauty and home interest brands, headed by managing director Jackie Newcombe.

The divisional names IPC TX and IPC Ignite will disappear.

James Murdoch - 'smaller role for newspapers'

Reuters reports
Newspapers will play a smaller role in News Corp's operations in future as the group focuses on more profitable pay-TV operations in western Europe and India, the group's head of Europe and Asia said.
...."In the business of ideas, which is the business that we are in, we do think journalism plays a role, and we do think there are business models there that will make a lot of sense, albeit perhaps not at the scale of some of our broadcasting businesses and other entertainment businesses," he said.
"Is it going to be as big a role? No," he said.
Read on here: reuters.com

Global Imageworks Launches RF Footage

click to view RF sample

Global ImageWorks is launching a "Royalty Free" footage division with over 3,000 clips ready for search and download. Footage in the Royalty Free Collection was originally shot in either Hi Definition, 4k, Red or Red One and is being made available in either their native formats or in SD or smaller files formats for online and mobile use .
The move to offer Royalty Free footage is a departure for Global ImageWorks, an archive primarily focused on rights managed, deep content footage. The GIW Royalty Free Collection is a response to a segment of footage buyers and clients who are looking for a certain type of shot at more cost effective , competitive pricing. Global ImageWorks' collections cover a broad spectrum of categories including music and entertainment, world events and global conflict, destinations and aerials.

CEPIC 2010 - Dublin 9 - 13 June

CEPIC have secured the Aviva Stadium situated in the heart of Dublin for their 2010 congress.

'This innovative facility provides a modern, light and flexible environement which will give us the perfect location for a truly successful congress. A congress full of networking opportunities, social activities, exhibition space and exchange of information and ideas.'

More here: CEPIC.org - bookings open Jan 2010.

New 'Youngest' Photographer At FLPA

Jack Chapman is the youngest photographer to be accepted into wildlife stock photo agency FLPA. Jack - '16 years old - 17 in January' - specializes in British nature and wildlife. Jean Hoskins at the agency said "His sample disc was stunning; with an incredibly high success rate and we invited him to join the agency immediately."
View Jack Chapman images.

The Times Set for Online Charge - 90p/day access

FT.com reports: The Times sets online fee date
Britain’s The Times newspaper will start to charge consumers for its online content early next year, just six months after owner Rupert Murdoch said he believed readers would pay for what they currently get for free.
Full article here:Ft.com

Spotted: The Magnum Mug

'A perfect gift for photography fans. 11oz. Black Matte with White Interior Coffee Mugs featuring the Magnum Photos logo. Dishwasher and microwave safe (non-metallic). Smooth molded ceramic composite. Easy comfort grip c-curved handle.' - Price: $12.00.

YouTube Launches YouTube Direct - broadcast

'Connecting citizens and journalists with YouTube Direct'

Every day, people with video cameras are changing the ways we get our news. We see it during elections. We see it during earthquakes, fires and other natural disasters. We see it on our freeways, in our schools and in our public spaces. Almost any event that takes place today has a chance of being captured on camera. ....
.... Though we built YouTube Direct to help news organizations expand their coverage and connect directly with their audiences, the application is designed to meet any organization's goal of leveraging video content submitted by the community.......
Here on the YouTube blog

'Google doesn't need Newspapers'

journalism.co.uk reports:
Google doesn’t need newspapers – it’s official; but its users do, Matt Brittin, UK director of Google, told the Society of Editors conference today.
Full report here: journalism.co.uk

Action Plus Sports Images: New Site - New RM Collection

Today London based sports event photography company Action Plus Sports Images releases a brand new web site providing a 'new personalised home page (select sporting galleries), very advanced search facility (by years, sports, editorial/commercial and many other selectors), ‘hover-over’ magnification, on-line pricing and many other new and enhanced features.'
View and enjoy the new site here: www.actionplus.co.uk
In addition, Action Plus has released a brand new rights managed sports event imagery collection, named ‘COMPETE’. Stephen Hearn, Managing Director of Action Plus told photoarchivenews.com "The development of this new commercial rights managed sports collection and the new website which provides our clients with an easy and powerful way to find and license images in either editorial or commercial uses were the two major expansion programs for Action Plus when we acquired the company earlier this year."

New CEPIC Member: Orange Logic

New CEPIC member Orange Logic helps picture libraries and photo agencies go "one level higher than the canned licensing solutions"

Google Adds millions of books to it's library

Timesonline reports: 'Google opens new chapter as millions of books go into its online library.'
....The landmark deal between Google and authors’ associations in America is a watered-down version of the original plans. The new deal will still enable tens of thousands of British writers to profit, as readers can search millions of works, read extracts online and buy full copies..... Full article here.

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Lickerish Expands Beauty Catalogue

Photo agency Lickerish have expanded the agencies beauty imagery catalogue adding the work of Charlotte Kibbles (photo above), Christoph Grothgar and Jason Moore to the image library.

NFB Canada Adds Content To Footage Search Platform

NFB Images, the footage licensing division of The National Film Board of Canada has added its entire English database to the Footage.net search platform.

"We could not be happier to have NFB Images as part of our stock footage search engine," said Footage.net president, Domenick Propati. "At Footage.net, we're focused on making footage research as simple and efficient as possible. The addition of one of the world's most important archival and contemporary footage collections to the Footage.net search platform will greatly enhance our ability to help footage users discover the world's best motion content as quickly and easily as possible."

Just Spotted: CEPIC Runs With New Logo & Strapline

Tiofoto : Celebrates 50 years

Tiofoto is celebrating 50 years in stock photography in 2009, a milestone in stock photography worth noting. The Tiofoto legacy lives on with new Swedish photography side by side with classic images.

In 1959 a group of ten photographers called Tio Fotografer started a stock photo agency they called Tiofoto. The agency provided a common forum where the ten photographers could display and sell their images. Tiofoto was very successful both in Sweden and abroad and came to have a huge impact on Swedish photography. Through the years a lot of talented photographers have been affiliated with the agency. In 2005 the Tiofoto collection was included in NordicPhotos and today there are about 50 photographers connected to the collection.
Click to Enjoy a small selection of new and classic Tiofoto images.

CORRECTION - VARIO represents OJO Images

Owing to an editing error, our report "Vario Merges with OJO Images" (Nov
13th) wrongly stated that Vario Images merged with OJO Images. In fact,
Vario Images has simply been appointed as a non exclusive distributor for
OJO Images within the territory of Germany. 'We apologise for our error'.

Click below to see full press release we received from Vario Images.

JFK Assassination Investigation Photos Now Online

Copy negative of a view from the historic Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas. The view through a window shows multiple vehicles traveling down several streets -click image for detail.

DallasNews.com reports: UNT Libraries' new online JFK archive puts investigation photos at public's fingertips.
Hundreds of photographs posted by the University of North Texas from the Dallas Police Department investigation of JFK's assassination won't solve any of the conspiracy questions that have endured for 46 years......Even though the photos contain no new evidence of the assassination, they are now just a mouse click away.........
Full article here:DallasNews.com

Alaska Stock Images Now Available On iPhone App

Photo agency, Alaska Stock Images has paired with Alaska HDTV to provide exclusive wallpaper photos for the first Alaska Travel iPhone app to include mobile video of Alaska destinations and Alaska travel discounts and promotions.
Alaska Stock owner, Jeff Schultz, remarked, “We are thrilled to have our Alaska images included in this new iPhone app and to provide a great selection of wallpapers for iPhone users.” The Alaska Travel iPhone App is designed to provide a visual sampling of what to see and where to go with short video episodes from regions around the state of Alaska. Attached to each of these video episodes are related wallpaper images of great Alaska scenery for users to decorate their iPhone or iPod touch and the ability to order photo prints at AlaskaStockPrints.com.
Pricing & Availability: The iPhone app is available now for $2.99 here: Apple iPhone App Store

Reed Shut Construction Trade Magazine

Laura Oliver at journalism.co.uk reports:
Reed Business Information (RBI) UK has announced the closure of its 130-year-old construction trade title Contract Journal.

Six editorial jobs are at risk of redundancy as part of the closure, which will also affect website contractjournal.com, parent company Reed Elsevier told staff in an email seen by www.journalism.co.uk

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Henry Browne : Rugby Photo Of The Year

Henry Browne and Seilala Mapusua - click to see the winning image, 'The Flying Samoan' - Photo: Action Images

Action Images photographer Henry Browne has won the IRB/Emirates Airline Rugby Photograph of the Year Award. Henry's award winning photo titled "The Flying Samoan" was taken at the Guinness Premiership match between London Irish and Leicester Tigers on March 1, 2009. The picture captures the moment Seilala Mapusua dived through the posts for a try.

BAPLA Training Academy: Rights and Digital Asset Management

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BAPLA Training Academy: Rights and Digital Asset Management Course 60% Skillset subsidised.

Day one the Digital Asset Management:
Topics include how to maintain a productive and efficient workflow, production standards, quality control and health checks, early warning signals on digital images, where automation can make you more efficient and save costs.
Day two on Rights Clearance:
Topics include review of digital licensing models, review of client models for generating income from content, preferred supplier agreements and price points, what is working and what needs to evolve, strategies for gaining revenue, negotiation skills.

Dates:26/7 November: 20 places - January: 22 places - Price: £150 - includes two days training, networking breakfast, lunch and tea at the Hoxton Hotel, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3HU. Bookings and payments by 11th November 2010. Full details on www.bapla.org

UK Image Source Staff Sleep On London Streets Tonight

The 'Sleep Out' staff

Five staff members (Ellie Jefferies, Lyndsey Shaw, Ruth Ritzema, Tanya Lefevre, Viola Lambert - above photo) from Image Source will take part in the Sleep Out on November 12th in Old Spitalfields Market, East London, in a fundraising bid. The volunteers will be sleeping rough from 7pm until 7am the following morning during the working week, giving up their beds to experience a night out on the winter streets of London. Centrepoint is a charity that houses and supports over 800 vulnerable homeless young people every day between the ages of 16-25 years old.
Donate here: JustGiving

Nat Mag Launches New Magazine

UK NatMag: Company magazine is to launch a dedicated bi-annual stand-alone style magazine offering the best High Street fashion for the saavy shopper.
The High Street Edit, a large format magazine to be printed on Solaris paper, will showcase Spring/Summer trends and then Autumn/Winter fashion later in the year. The new magazine will officially launch in March 2010 with a print run of more than 100,000 copies.

Polylooks Launches Users Facebook Forum

Polylooks.co.uk, the online stock photo agency owned by Deutsche Telekom, has launched its Polylooks International Facebook fan page to give amateur and professional photographers and artists alike a forum to collaborate online.

ImageSpan And Digimarc Work Together To Secure Your Images

ImageSpan and Digimarc partner to deliver complete solution to manage, monitor and monetize valuable image assets

'The combined solution enables stock photography agencies, media companies, and museums and archives to communicate copyright ownership, automatically track images online and make more money from new and existing image assets'.

Guardian & Observer Cut 100 Jobs

Guardian News & Media to cut more than 100 jobs
Newspaper group says revenues have fallen by a worse-than-anticipated £33m.

....GNM also revealed in the series of staff briefings today that the Guardian's Thursday Technology print section will cease publication at the end of the year.....
...Travel coverage will be incorporated into Observer Magazine and business and personal finance into the main news section, while the Review section will be expanded....
Full article here: www.guardian.co.uk/media

Image - National Pictures/Topfoto

NMM 14,000 Images Available As Prints

Man with a hookah - click for detail

The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich have updated their print sales store.
There are now over 14,000 images online, presented in revamped categories and featured collections. New content includes superb World War II art by Norman Wilkinson - online for the first time ever, polar photography, historic images of Greenwich and beautiful Admiralty ship plans.

Auction: Photographs - Bloomsbury Auctions Today

Lot No 206 Sally Mann & Lot No 126 Elliot Erwitt - click image for details

Photographs to be sold by auction on Tuesday 10th November at 2.00pm
Viewing beforehand Tuesday 10 November 9:30am - 1:30pm
Sale catalogue: Photographs
Bloomsbury House, 24 Maddox Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 1PP
Tel: +44(0) 20 7495 9494

Black Archives Is Grazia Neri

14 photographers from failed photo agency Grazia Neri have pooled their photographic collections (600,000 images) forming a new agency Black Archives

100 Years Of Great Press Photography - Collectable Series

Starts tomorrow - free collectable series: 100 Years Of Great Press Photography

'From striking images from the front line of conflicts to the moving social documentary of every day events, see the greatest press photographs of the last hundred years in a nine-day collectable series, free every day in the Guardian and the Observer, starting this weekend.'

GWI Offers Country Life Images

UK based photo library Garden World Images are now representing the photographic archive of IPC Media magazine, Country Life (first published in 1897). The collection captures the essence of the English country garden.This brand new collection offers a unique perspective into the origins and classical concepts of gardening; ranging from historical gardening tradition [including renown gardeners/designers] to contemporary beauty.

Gunpowder & Fireworks At UK Picture Libraries

If you are short of a few bonfire night images Mary Evans & the Bridgeman Art Library have put together dedicated Fireworks and Guy Fawkes image galleries.

if you are a photoarchivenews.com subscriber and want to add your gallery please email with a link to will@photoarchivenews.com - we'll put it up....

10,000 Russian Content At Lebrecht

Music, arts & authors image specialist Lebrecht now carries a unique collection of over 10,500 images of paintings and photographs from Russian museums.
The outstanding and unusual Russian Collection includes paintings and photographs of Russian social history, domestic and religious life, political figures and posters and military scenes, plus over 200 rarely seen European works from the era of Impressionism.

Aurora Michael Hanson: Coastal Living Magazine

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Aurora photographer Michael Hanson’s photographs of vacation spots in Belize have been featured in the October issue of Coastal Living Magazine. The underlying story in this travel article was a ‘his’ and ‘hers’ vacation to the Caribbean where a couple can combine soft adventure with luxuries and empty beaches. Hanson shot two locations off mainland Belize - one focused more on soft adventures centered around an ecolodge, and the other was a more posh, luxury resort.

Site Launch: Frédéric Sautereau - Independent Photographer

Photographer Frédéric Sautereau has launched his website, Sautereau was with Paris based photo agency Oeil Public until April, he is now independent: 'I have recently begun work on Hamas in the Gaza Strip and plan to regularly visit the area. My next visit will be in December 2009. This project was shortlisted for the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award.'
View and enjoy: www.fredericsautereau.com

Alamy - 3rd Q Results

3rd Quarter Results are in from Alamy.

'Q3 2009 results will reflect what we hope is the bottom of the downturn. It's too early to predict what Q4 will look like, but I can say that September and October numbers have been very reassuring. Until we have more data, however, we're sticking with our earlier forecast of a 15%-20% decrease on 2008.
We're working on some exciting investments for 2010, which include further expansion of direct sales teams, some great new search features for customers, new products, new markets, and a faster service (we'll have more to say about all this later).' - James West - Alamy CEO

PCL Presents Online Library Brochure

Picture Colour Library have launched an online brochure - click to view

'As a library specialising in travel, we are constantly being asked for famous landmarks around the world. Sometimes very ‘straight’ obvious images are required and at other times something a little more unusual or creative.
In this Flipper we have tried to cater for all requirements from the most obvious and iconic image to the more obscure.'
View here: PicturesColourLibrary

Book: Iran by Inge Morath

click book cover for image selection

In 1956, Inge Morath traveled to the Middle East with Robert Delpire on assignment for Holiday magazine. Dressed in the traditional chador, Morath documented a land and culture now unrecognisable since the Iranian revolution in 1979. These previously unseen images are newly published providing a unique perspective on Iran in the present day.
Full details here: Inge Morath at Magnum Photos

Getty Represents Bloomberg Photos - Past & present

Getty Images has announced that it will provide customers around the world with access to the entire archive of Bloomberg Photos images.
'Getty Images has exclusive agency rights to market all Bloomberg Photos imagery, both past and present, captured by Bloomberg’s network of 400 photographers worldwide covering the business and financial industries, companies, markets, economies and governments. Today, with more than 400 journalism awards, Bloomberg has become one of the world’s largest and most trusted media companies and information sources.'
See the Bloomberg archive at Getty Images here: gettyimages/bloomberg

PicScout - Deloitte Fast 50

PicScout has been recognized by Deloitte Fast 50 as one of Israel's fastest growing companies http://tinyurl.com/yeyorq7.......ranked among the top 10 fastest growing technology companies of the 2009 Deloitte Israel Technology Fast 50. To determine that PicScout is among the fastest growing companies in Israel, Deloitte reviewed and calculated revenue growth percentages for fiscal year revenues over five years (2004-2008), comparing growth across all technology companies, and ranking PicScout number 4.

British Library Holds Major Photography Exhibition

The British Library is holding its first major photographic exhibition, exploring some of the great themes of the 19th century
Free entry: Fri 30 Oct 2009 - Sun 7 Mar 2010
Click here to find out more

Book: The Children Who Fought Hitler

Author James Fox began a long and distinguished career with the Magnum Photos as Editor in Chief in New York and Paris in 1966. - click cover for detail and shop.

Few people know that Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the Second World War. This expatriate outpost grew around the British ex-servicemen who cared for the war memorials and cemeteries of ‘Flanders Fields’. Many married local women and their children grew up multi-lingual, but attended their own school and were intensely proud to be British.

Life.com Iconic Images Become Personal Videos With Animoto

LIFE.com has partnered with Animoto, a video creation platform which allows users to enjoy photo galleries in video format; Animoto users can now incorporate some of the world's most iconic imagery into their own personal videos.
Read more at Reuters

Non-Latin-Script Domains Approved

The internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is set to transform the online world.
The board of Icann voted at its annual meeting in Seoul to allow domain names in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts.
More than half of the 1.6 billion people who use the internet speak languages with non-Latin scripts.
Read more at bbc.co.uk

Site Relaunch: Specialist Stock Features Home Page Blog

UK picture library Specialist Stock have re launched their website featuring a company blog dominating the home page.

Arenapal Photographer Featured In BBC Magazine

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ArenaPAL photographer Clive Barda is celebrating 40 years of taking photographs. The December 2009 edition of BBC Music magazine has a five page article where he talks about his experience of shooting the world's performers, illustrated of course with some of the outstanding images of his career.

Prints Now Available From Millennium Images

Creative image agency Millennium Images has launched a new print sales website.

Millennium Images has launched its new Print Collection and celebrates this with an Exhibition at Crane Kalman Brighton and with the launch of this brand new website. The exhibition features work by 30 of Millennium's photographic artists, some well extablished in the photographic art world, some emerging names. The exhibition runs from October 26-November 22, 2009.

Reuters Pictures of the Year 2009

Click image to view Reuters Pictures of the Year 2009 gallery

BAPLA Announces 2010 Executive Board

The 34th AGM of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies took place this week, where members voted in the executive board for 2009-10.

Re-elected members:
· Paul Brown (Mary Evans Picture Library)
· Catherine Draycott (Wellcome Images)
· Lynne Bryant (Arcaid)
· Paul Seheult (Eye Ubiquitous / Hutchison)
· Caroline Haywood (Art Archive / Kobal Collection)
· Elbie Lebrecht (Lebrecht Music & Arts)
· Stuart Cox (Imense)
· Victoria Bridgeman (The Bridgeman Art Library)
· Tim Harris (Nature Picture Library & Bluegreen Pictures)
Newly elected members:
· Alison Crombie (Getty Images)
· Mike Markiewicz (ArenaPAL)
· Mary Egan (Press Association Images)

Dreamstime Adds Thousands More Free Stock Photos

Stock photography agency Dreamstime has announced the company’s initiative to up the number of images made available absolutely free.
In January 2007, Dreamstime made available an assortment of images under its free umbrella. The free selection—an original and revolutionary sector that has attracted bargain hunters from around the globe—is a successfully proven concept that has secured Dreamstime’s footprint in the industry as one-stop-photo-shop giant.

Keywording Central: Need the (Metadata) Info

Getting the keywording you need without communicating what those needs are can be very problematic, if not impossible. As Dr Evil says in the movie Austin Powers: "need the info" - he could have been talking about keywording.

Making your keywording experience a success is a two way process. Metadata companies must bring their expertise and knowledge of keywording standards, processes, vocabularies and so on. But that expertise is wasted if the client doesn't play their part.
Read all at Keywording Central - a blog from keywording company, Keedup.

BAPLA Member Accuses The Association Of Business Model Disruption ::Update::

Update: 12.14pm Friday 30th : fotoLibra responds to BAPLA response:
If we were astonished when we heard BAPLA’s plans to go into business on Tuesday, we were grateful and even more astonished by the overwhelming flood of support from so many people to our last blog posting......continues here in a new post on the fotoLibra blog

Simon Cliffe, the BAPLA Director, used the fotoLibra blog to post his refutation of our complaints, happily writing “The great thing about blogs is that you get an opportunity to respond, which is what I’m doing now.”

He subsequently posted an intemperate attack on fotoLibra

BAPLA responds to the fotoLibrara blog entry - our first report here on the 28th

from the press release
BAPLA’s response to the fotoLibra blog
It was with great sadness that we at BAPLA read the latest post on the fotoLibra blog, a blog that was full of misconceptions that led to many inaccurate statements. Due to the potentially destructive and libellous accusations, BAPLA is forced to respond to reassure members and the industry that fotoLibra is completely mistaken in its perception of BAPLA’s future plans.

The blog accuses BAPLA of inventing fotoLibra, of stealing their business model and setting up in competition with them. So what is the fotoLibra model that has been stolen? I quote from the blog “the concept of fotoLibra was to provide a platform for any photographer to make money selling his pictures.”
.....continues here: BAPLA

The fotoLibra Blog is now showing 34 comments......
update: Fri 30th: Gwyn tells photoarchivenews.com: "What I AM accusing them of is setting up in business in competition with us; no photographer is going to want to pay a subscription both to fotoLibra AND to BAPLA. Our income comes both from picture sales and from storage charges. We provide a public viewing platform and a genuine chance to sell".

Reminder: IGPOTY Deadline - 30th November

The International Garden Photographer Of The Year competition deadline is up on the 30th November and they are offering free prints to all entrants.
'In partnership with our sponsor PHOTOBOX we will be offering ALL entrants free high quality prints of the images you enter into the competition'
Details here: igpoty.com

BAPLA Member Accuses The Association Of Business Model Disruption

Gwyn Headley of fotoLibra writes on the photo agency blog:

BAPLA Shock Horror
Yesterday was the Annual General Meeting of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies, our trade body. BAPLA represents the interests of picture libraries large and small, and fotoLibra has been a member since before we started trading. There is a link to the BAPLA web site on every single page of the fotoLibra site.

Nothing prepared us for what we heard at the AGM. Times are tough for everyone, BAPLA as well as fotoLibra. They’ve lost about 50 members over the past year or two, and as the annual fees are substantial, that makes a hefty dent in their finances.

So they have cast around for a way to improve their cash flow. And they’ve come up with the same idea that we came up with seven and a half years ago.......continues here: fotoLibra Blog
31 industry comments and counting.....

update: Fri 30th: Gwyn tells photoarchivenews.com: "What I AM accusing them of is setting up in business in competition with us; no photographer is going to want to pay a subscription both to fotoLibra AND to BAPLA. Our income comes both from picture sales and from storage charges. We provide a public viewing platform and a genuine chance to sell".

Splash Expands Celebrity Reporting Team For New Wire Service

Two of the new recruits: Georgina Dickinson and Eric Munn

Celebrity news and photo agency Splash News has strengthened its editorial team with the recruitment of key personnel creating a 24-hour news gathering team.
The new hires coincide with the launch of its news wire service aimed at website and mobile clients. Splash’s team of award winning correspondents contribute to the feed, providing a news story every 15 minutes around the clock, each item accompanied by a current photograph.

Axiom Represents Rough Guides Photo Content

Axiom Photographic Agency has announced its exclusive image partnership with travel publisher, Rough Guides. Twice nominated a CoolBrand for their innovation, style, and desirability, Rough Guides have been publishing their unique brand of travel and reference books for over 25 years. Axiom will be representing the very best of Rough Guides’ commissioned photography via it's website. This collection also includes all of the images from Rough Guides’ recently published Earthbound: A Rough Guide to the World in Pictures, a showcase of the publisher’s best travel photography.

Lickerish Signs Jason Buckner

Angus Deaton & Louise Redknapp by Jason Buckner

Photo syndication agency Lickerish are now representing photographer Jason Buckner. Rebecca Morley from the agency told PhotoArchiveNews.com, "We are pleased to announce that we represent Jason Buckner. Jason has shot many celebrities including Myleene Klass, Jamie Oliver and Eddie Jordan. We very much look forward to working with him".

London Lite Newspaper To Close

thisislondon.com reports:
The London Lite was today placed under threat of closure.
The free newspaper, which is owned by Associated Newspapers, is set to become the latest victim of the recession, with 36 jobs at risk.

Full article here: thisislondon.co.uk

Website Relaunch: SPL - includes motion collection

The new Science Photo Library - SPL - website marks the launch of a new Motion collection. 'The video clips range from the ocean floor to the edge of space, from nanorobots to aerial cityscapes reveling the world in ultra high speed, showing beauty of time-lapse sequences and displaying events beyond the reach of the human eye.' Head of SPL Motion Ben Jones says: "We are delighted to work with so many exclusive specialist footage contributors and trust that the high-quality and unique nature of our collection will appeal to a broad range of clients".

New Site Launch: Lonely Planet Images

Lonely Planet Images are celebrating the launch of their new website by offering all customers 20% off images until the end of November. Just use this promotional code: November20 in your shopping cart when you purchase images online, or call your local office for assistance.
Lonely Planet Images is the Photography department of Lonely Planet, publisher of guidebooks for independent travellers.

Launched: Picade - New Stock and Assignment Photo Agency

Picade, a stock and assignment photo agency owned entirely by its contributing photographers has officially opened for business. Based in Chicago Illinois, the Company is a growing international enterprise, currently with forty-three professional photographers in nine countries from New Zealand to the United Arab Emirates. Focused on rights-managed stock imagery covering a broad range of editorial and commercial styles, Picade is also uniquely positioned to quickly fulfill photo assignments through its global network of experienced photographers.

Copyright Infringement: Grisbook v MGN Ltd.

In a judgment issued on 16 October which has potentially important ramifications for the photography industry, the High Court held that MGN Limited, the publishers of the Daily Mirror and other titles, had infringed copyright in photographs included in back copies of newspapers it was making available online to paid subscribers. The claimant, celebrity photographer Alan Grisbrook, had worked with MGN for a number of years on a freelance basis.

One of three important conclusion points made by Tom Cowling of Swan Turton Solicitors reporting on the case states: Any photographer (or image library) who has licensed images to a newspaper which, like MGN, now appears to be making back copies of their editions available online to paid subscribers, may well, following this case, have a claim in copyright infringement if their licence agreement did not clearly allow such use.

A full report by Tom Cowling of Swan Turton Solicitors can be found on their website

License Stream Introduce 'Business Edition'

ImageSpan, the creator of LicenseStream, a licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, have announced that several owners of premier collections and libraries of images, including the Missouri History Museum and “Visions of America: Photographing Democracy” author and photographer Joseph Sohm are opening their content for business using ImageSpan’s new LicenseStream Business Edition. The announcement was made at the photography industry trade show PDN PhotoPlus Expo, New York.

Wildlife Encounters From Plain Picture

Click on the image, sit back, put the browser on full screen and plug in the headphones.

Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009

A picture by Jose Luis Rodriguez of a hunting wolf has won the prestigious Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award.

An exhibition of the best images from this year's competition opens to visitors of the Natural History Museum, London, on Friday, 23 October 2009

Click here for more at bbc.co.uk

UK Postal Strike

Click to view The Postal Service gallery from Topfoto

The first nationwide postal strike in two years has begun after talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) broke down.
Mail centre staff and drivers began a 24-hour walkout at 0400 BST. Delivery and collection staff will strike on Friday with more strike dates expected. bbc

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Panther Media Launches Localised Website: Poland

Royalty-Free photo library PantherMedia has opened an office in Warsaw, Poland, and launched a dedicated polish website.
PantherMedia Poland is led by industry expert Wieslaw Kubajka who will apply his extensive industry knowledge to enhance the international exposure for PantherMedia's collection of stock photos and illustrations. Mr. Kubajka, who holds a university degree in Economy/International Finance, was formerly the long-time Head of the Photo Department of the Bauer Publishing House Poland and previously the President of KAPA Press Agency.
To celebrate the launch, PantherMedia Poland is offering a wide range of introductory offers. www.panthermedia.pl

UK Magazine News

Bauer Media: The December issue of EMPIRE, the world's biggest selling movie magazine, will be published with ten different covers to recognise the ten most popular movie icons that have defined the decade according to an empireonline poll.

Haymarket: Autocar Premium magazine, a luxury monthly edition of the UK’s first car weekly, Autocar, has shown early signs of success on the Italian newsstand. The new title was developed by Haymarket in conjunction with magazine publisher Hachette Rusconi and launched this September.

NatMag:NatMag is delighted to announce the appointment of former Best magazine Editor, Jane Ennis, as the new Editor of Reveal magazine.

Theft Alert: Canon 400mm 2.8 lens (serial no. 24298)

This in from a reader:
"I was working at the Stephen Gately funeral last weekend and my colleague from Dublin, PA snapper Julien Behal, unfortunately had his Canon 400mm 2.8 lens (serial no. 24298) stolen from the photographer's pen opposite the church (unfortunately it was a very rough neighbourhood).
It's a long shot (no pun intended) but if anyone hears of any such lens being offered for sale (by ebay, private sale, camera shop etc) could you please contact him at :julienbehal@eircom.net / julien.behal@pressassociation.com / +353 (0)879782542. He has made enquiries in Ireland but the lens may have been taken out of the country, so feel free to pass on this information."

Business Matters From TED 2009

Learn why it is harder to photograph Disneyland than a secret military facility by Taryn Simon
http://www.ted.com/talks/taryn_simon_photographs_secret_sites.html

Learn why we should replace bonuses with freedom by Dan Pink
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

Learn why the soundscape of an open plan office decreases productivity by Julian Treasure
http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_the_4_ways_sound_affects_us.html

see more at Ted.com

Exhibition: Dispatches - Photographs From The First Five Issues

The 61 presents, from October 20th until November 1st, the quarterly dispatches with an exhibition featuring the photographers in the five first issues: Antonin Kratochvil, Yuri Kozyrev, Seamus Murphy, Gary Knight, Philip Blenkinsop. Vernissage begins at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 20. Mort Rosenblum, co-editor of dispatches, will lead a discussion.

What: Exhibition from the pages of dispatches' first five issues.
Where: Bar 61, 3, rue de l'Oise, 75019 Paris (+33 1 42 05 09 17).
When: Opening on 7pm on Tuesday 20 October.

Site re-launch: Reflex Stock

Independent stock photography distributor Reflex Stock has re-launched its website with an enhanced collection of over 15 million quality stock photo images to suit every budget and brief in the advertising, design, editorial and corporate markets. Prices for royalty free stock photography start from as little as 14c per image.
Dwyer O’Neill, Chief Executive Officer of Reflex Stock® said: “The global recession has hit creative budgets hard and over the past year there has been a marked shift in demand for low cost stock imagery.”
“We have responded to these changing market trends by bringing together more quality images than ever before along with a simplified product range that allows customers to tailor their search within their own budget.”
Reflex Stock currently offer 15 Micro-Priced credits for only $15, which is 70% cheaper than industry competitors.

Eugene Richards Confirmed At Vision

Picture © Eugene Richards/Reportage by Getty Images

The British Journal of Photography have announced a second key speaker for its November show, Vision – 'Europe’s only event dedicated to aspiring and early career professional photographers.'
Documentary photographer Eugene Richards will be flying in from New York to speak at Vision on 27 November. He will be presenting his latest work, War is Personal, which focuses on Americans whose lives have been irrevocably impacted by the ongoing war in Iraq. The project highlights the consequences a war can have on people once they come home from the frontlines.
Details: Vision

Software Update: Rawzor - Lossless Image Compression For Mac

Rawzor announces a major update to its lossless image compression software that adds support for Apple Mac OSX.
Rawzor compresses camera raw images by 20% to 60% with absolutely no change to image quality or metadata. The original raw file is completely restored on decompression like when using zip. Rawzor's easy to use SDK allows raw processing software to open compressed .rwz files directly.

Jonathan Klein: Istockphoto - "Yesterday it did $850,000 in one day.”

TimesOnline reports: Getty founder knows how to develop ideas.

.... He reckons that it is a good time for Getty to be in private hands, not least because the prevailing environment is so difficult. When the company was last public — the figures are for 2007 — turnover was $857 million and net profits were $125 million. This year, he says, sales will certainly be down —
....But that is not to say that there isn’t any growth in imaging. The company sells digital images, including those taken by amateurs, via its iStockphoto website, and demand is taking off. Mr Klein says: “In December 2005, before we bought the company behind it, the site did $600,000 of business. Yesterday it did $850,000 in one day.”..........

Full interview here: timesonline.co.uk

Don't Miss: Frankfurt Book Fair - Fotolibra on eBook Image Issues

Gwyn Headley of stock photo library Fotolibra will be delivering a speech today at the Frankfurt Book Fair called "From Gutenberg to Google: The Use of Imagery in Publishing".
It covers the history of photographs and illustrations in books and ponders the problems surrounding the use of images in ebooks.
He's on at 10am in the Workshop Room if you are there. Report to follow....

Starsuckers - Movie to expose 'celebrity media' industry

'Starsuckers is a feature documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it. Made by the same team behind BAFTA nominated Taking Liberties, it will be released in cinemas on the 30th October - unless Rupert Murdoch shuts us down first. Or Max Clifford. And perhaps Bob Geldof.'

'Made completely independently over 2 years in secret, the film journeys through the dark underbelly of the modern media. Using a combination of never before seen footage, undercover reporting, stunts and animation, the film reveals the toxic effect the media is having on us all – and especially our children. It shows how truth has become a distant memory in the modern news and climaxes with a shocking and startling revelation of just how bad things can get when we let entertainment reach out into politics and charity.'

Focal offer Skillset Training Schemes For The Footage Industry

Interested in the world of audio visual archives, research, rights, preservation and data management?
FOCAL International and its industry partners supported by SKILLSET are offering a wide variety of training schemes for new entrants to the industry and for those professionals who seek continuing personal development.
FOCAL International Footage Archive 12 month New Entrants Scheme
FOCAL International Footage Training Week, Manchester 8-12 March 2010
FOCAL International Footage Training Week, London June 2010
Explore further training opportunities and your involvement here: Focal Training

BBC and Thought Equity Team Up To Enhance Global Distribution

BBC Motion Gallery, the stock footage arm of BBC Worldwide, and Thought Equity Motion, a leading provider of motion content worldwide, have entered into a strategic relationship under which Thought Equity Motion will provide access to its advanced technology platform to BBC Motion Gallery. Under the agreement, Thought Equity Motion will have the right to sell BBC Motion Gallery stock footage content in North America and Asia. Additionally, BBC Motion Gallery will have the right to sell certain Thought Equity Motion content in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Go See: Witness Russia - The Photo Archives Of RIA Novosti

Witness Russia: Highlights From The Photo Archives of RIA Novosti
Exhibition is open from Wednesday 28 October until Friday 13 November 2009 | Mon – Fri 15:00 – 18:00 at Pushkin House, London.
Admission FREE.
Explore Russia through the unique and extensive photo archives of leading Russian news agency RIA Novosti. From the tumultuous years following the 1917 Revolution through to the 21st century, this exhibition draws on the rich and continuing legacy of some of Russia’s leading press photographers.

FOCAL International Awards 2010

FOCAL (Federation Of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries) International Awards 2010
Call for submissions now open - closes 1st December 2009

The FOCAL International Awards will be presented on 27th April 2010 at the Lancaster London Hotel in the company of Lord (David) Puttnam CBE, Chair of Patrons.

The Maggies - Cover Of The Year

Battling it out against the UK’s publishing elite, Q has snatched the honour of overall winner in coveted awards The Maggies. Q has beaten some of the year’s very best covers, including a naked Beth Ditto fronting Love and US president Barack Obama looking out from Time magazine, to clinch the top spot.
Category winners:
Overall Winner – Q (April 2009)
Business & General Interest Winner – Geographical (January 2009)
Celebrity & Entertainment Winner – Q (April 2009)
Fashion Winner – Love (February 2009)
Lifestyle Winner – Clash (April 2009)
Specialist & Hobbies Winner – BBC History (November 2008)
Sports & Men’s Winner – Huck (June 2009)

ASME - Best Cover Contest Winners

ASME Magazine Cover of the Year - Rolling Stone, July 10-24, 2008

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) have announced the winners of the ASME Best Cover Contest.
The smile says it all. Photographer Peter Yang caught up with Barack Obama in Raleigh, North Carolina, just a few days after he had finally nailed down the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Obama was exhausted, excited, relaxed, gracious, open--yet still somehow elusive. Hundreds of photographers have shot Obama over the past couple of years, but no one has quite caught his quiet charisma as Peter Yang did last June.
View all the finalists, winners and to read the stories behind the covers.

Choose Film Signs 5,000th Member

Choose-film.com, the online community dedicated to film photography, has signed-up its 5,000th member, Ricardo Babo de Almeida from Portugal. As a result of his good fortune Ricardo has been presented with a £50.00 voucher to use at Fujifilm's web shop, fujilab.co.uk
Choose-film was launched in 2007 and is supported by Fujifilm Professional, it has grown to become the one-stop portal for users of all types of traditional film right across the world. Subscription to Choose-film is free and and once photographers have signed-up they can enjoy a host of benefits. Members are able to create their own profile web page that carries a gallery of their images. The site also feature forums, free classified advertisements and a directory of where to buy film and film cameras.

SAA & AVA Merge - 'greater benefits for all members'

The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) have announced that it will merge with the Alliance of Visual Artists (AVA), an umbrella organization representing five photographic associations and some 45,000 professional photographers worldwide.

SAA, the only photography association dedicated specifically to the needs of professional stock photographers, represents more than 400 members. With the merger of the two groups, it becomes the sixth photographic association to join AVA's family, which also includes Professional Photographers of America (PPA), Society of Sport and Event Photographers (SEP), Evidence Photographers International Council (EPIC), Student Photographic Society (SPS) and Commercial Photographers International (CPI). The merger becomes effective immediately.

Snow Leopard Data Eating Bug - Apple Admit Problem

bbc.co.uk reports: Data losses in Snow Leopard bug
Users of the new Apple operating system Snow Leopard are experiencing massive data losses when logging into their machines under a guest account.
....Users have in some cases lost their entire main profile, including sites, pictures, videos and documents....
Full article here bbc.co.uk

Business Week Sold To Bloomberg

CNN Money reports: Bloomberg buys BusinessWeek
Bloomberg, founded in 1981 by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is purchasing the 80-year-old weekly newsmagazine to tap into its audience of decision makers around the world. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but reports say Bloomberg is paying up to $5 million.
Full article here: CNNMoney.com

Bloomberg report: McGraw-Hill Cos., the textbook publisher and owner of the Standard & Poor’s credit-ratings unit, agreed to sell BusinessWeek to Bloomberg LP.
Bloomberg Report On The Sale

Stock Watch - Specialist Stock Content - Ch 5 tonight 8pm

8pm Tuesday 13 Oct on Channel 5 - Episode 1: The Whale That Ate The Great White
UK based Specialist Stock provided ALL the stock for this TV production from their Splashdown collection and image partners - apart from the shots by biologist of orca attacking great white shark.

UPDATE: 14 Oct: Viewing figures result for Nature Shock last night = 1.734 million /7.5% share.

Tatler Celebrate 300 with Topfoto

John Hedgecoe via Topfoto provided the cover photo for the 300th Anniversary edition of Tatler magazine.

WildPhotos 2009

Friday 23rd October - Saturday 24th October sees the return of Wildscreen’s WildPhotos event, the UK’s premier photography symposium for those passionate about nature photography. With a sensational line-up of the world’s finest nature photographers and industry experts, including winners from the prestigious Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, this two-day event, held at the Royal Geographical Society in London, promises to inspire and enthuse.
For full programme details and tickets visit: www.wildphotos.org.uk/

Karl Fakhreddine Q&A - Digital Asset Management At Orange Logic

Karl Fakhreddine
Company: Orange Logic
Position: CEO
Site: www.orangelogic.com

.......Describe Orange Logic in one sentence
We help picture libraries and photo agencies go one level higher than the canned licensing solutions.

What one feature sets OL ahead of other DAM systems?
I would say the ability of our application to adapt itself to our clients' needs rather than the opposite. This gives our clients the confidence to quickly adapt their business model to the market as needed. We provide a service, not just a software, our clients don't have to buy anything from us and can stop using us any time (it has never happened yet)........

Read the full Q&A with Karl on our Interviews page.

PicApp Enables Wordpress Bloggers To Use Images - Legally

Picapp have announced partnership with Automattic, enabling 7.5MM wordpress.com publishers to access news, sports, entertainment images via Picapp.
'WordPress.com bloggers searching for real-time photos of Juan Martin Del Potro, Rob Pattinson and Michelle Obama or looking for photos of a sunset in Yosemite Park, the Eiffel Tower, a wild flower, baby laughing, or an urban spa can now use PicApp to add relevant images to their posts. The content partners include, among others, Getty Images, Corbis, Newscom, Zuma Press, Image Source, Jupiter Images and Pacific Coast News.'
Full detail and video talk through on the PicApp Blog

Rights Search: Peter Oliver

This in from a photoarchivenews.com reader - a picture researcher based in New York.

- "Hi, Will, sorry to bother you. I am trying to locate a photographer - Peter Oliver - who worked in the 1960s-1980s or the copyright owner who licenses an image I have that was taken by a Peter Oliver. I have this image he took in 1982, but can't locate any details on his current whereabouts or on whether he is alive and also there are so many Peter Olivers - I thought it was an uncommon name, but seems like it is not. I have already contacted Peter Oliver - a photographer located to see if he is the one I am searching for, but based on his photo on his website, I don't think he's him. I've also sent emails out to a few other people who I think might be him. He was an active photographer I think back then. I also located music cover, My Name is Barbara - album by Barbra Streisand circa 1965 which has as a credit, "Peter Oliver (photography) and my instinct is telling me this might be the same Peter Oliver." -

Please forward any info you have to me, will@photoarchivenews.com and I will put you in touch with the researcher.

Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents

The programme of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents 16th edition.

From 5th to 10th October, Bayeux is welcoming the 16th Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents. It represents a tribute to the work carried out all year long by leading reporters and an opportunity to meet and interact with the general public, especially high school students. During the week, debates, exhibitions and forums thus offer a key to deciphering news events through the keen eye of these journalists who cover the upheavals of the planet. Find here the detailed programme of the event.

You Can Contribute To Keywording blog

Keywording Central the blog from keywording providers Keedup relaunched this week and they are encouraging posts from new contributors.
'While the editorial stance of the blog will continue to be pro keywording, we would love some good-natured debate about things such as keywording standards, the future of keywording, and how people are making use of their metadata'.
In particular, we hope to receive articles about new ways of keywording, pitfalls that can be avoided, and new techniques to utilise keywording more effectively.
As well as people in the image business, we're looking for posts from online reatailers, people in the video business and the software industry.
We can't promise all contributions will make it onto the blog, but we'll do our best to get the best and most interesting ideas out to readers.

If you have something you want to tell the world about keywording, metadata, and/or how they affect your business please email contributions@keywordingcentral.com.

Photographer Search

Camera Press is looking to locate the following photographers,
formerly with Frank Spooners and Katz picture agencies, as they have some original material to return to them and have been unable to track them down.

NORMAN SAGANSKY
DAVID GAYWOOD
FRANCO CITO
PAMELA SINGH (FORMERLY BORDES)
KATHY ARKELL

If anyone has email or phone numbers for any of the photographers below can they please contact Alice at Camera press. [ a.jessop@camerapress.com ]

Job: Zooid Requires A Media Researcher

Media Researcher - photos / footage / illustration

ZOOID PICTURES is the UK's leading picture and footage research company; sourcing, managing and licensing media for major international publishing, broadcasting and exhibition projects worldwide since 1984, and pioneering research standards and technologies.

See the full details in PAN Industry Ads

BAPLA : PBF 2010 At The Barbican

The British Associations Of Picture Libraries and Agencies have announced a new home for their Picture Buyers' Fair - the Barbican Centre. London - May 19th & 20th 2010.
'Highlights for the new look show include':
- A brand new concept; we’re installing a beautifully designed digital gallery with thousands of amazing images on display.
- A brand new rolling seminar programme; we’ll be delivering content relevant to ALL image buying sectors.
- A brand new first night party; we’ll be creating an exclusive event fit for our industry in 2010.

Irving Penn Dies Aged 92

The New York Times reports:
Irving Penn, one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museum goers worldwide, died Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan.
His death was announced by Peter MacGill, his friend and representative.
Full article here: nytimes.com

Vision 2009 - Photographers Event - London

The British Journal of Photography's annual event, Vision, celebrates its 11th successful year when it returns on 27th November 2009. Vision is Europe’s only event dedicated to aspiring professionals and early career pro photographers. This year Vision is delighted to have renowned photographer Martin Parr as its key speaker. Many of the industry’s leading manufacturers will be there to showcase the latest products and services. The show will be focusing on effective tools and solutions to further photographers' businesses.
Location: Business Design Centre, London.
Full details here: Vision

Klemantaski Acquires Important American Motorsport Image Archive

The Klemantaski Collection has recently acquired a photo archive by the famous Argentinean motorsports photographer Vicente Alvarez. This archive consists of his images from American oval racing (including the Indianapolis 500 and USAC sprint cars and midgets), as well as other famous American racing venues such as Pikes Peak, during the period 1955 - 1980. Alvarez is best known for his photographic work covering South American sports car and Grand Prix racing, but this recently-discovered archive adds a new and valuable dimension to his work.

Dennis Acquires Men's Fitness Rights - UK / Ireland

Dennis Publishing have announced an agreement with New York based American Media Inc. for the international expansion of Men's Fitness. In an additional move, Dennis Publishing also acquires the rights to publish Men’s Fitness in the UK and Ireland.
Dennis Publishing has published Men's Fitness in the UK and Ireland since 2001 under commercial license from New York based AMI (American Media Inc). The license acquisition from AMI means Dennis Publishing has full rights over the magazine content and any Men's Fitness brand activity in the UK and Ireland. All other international editions of Men’s Fitness will continue to be published under license from AMI.

The acquisition of the Men's Fitness license will see no change to the existing editorial and commercial teams at Dennis Publishing and James Burnay will continue as the Publishing Director and Pete Muir as Editorial Director.

Condé Nast Closes Four Magazines

Telegraph.co.uk reports:
In addition to Gourmet, which has been published since 1940, Condé Nast plans to cut Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Cookie. It has already axed the Portfolio business magazine and Domino, the home design magazine.
Condé Nast, also the publisher of magazines like The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, made the surprise announcement on Monday following a review aimed at finding ways to cut costs in the face of the advertising crisis.
Full article here: telegraph.co.uk

ES Goes Free

BBC.co.uk reports: Evening Standard to be free paper

The London Evening Standard is to become a free newspaper.
About 600,000 copies of the paper - which currently costs 50p - will be given out in London from 12 October. Current circulation is about 250,000.

Full article here: bbc.co.uk

Trunk Lands Major Condé Nast Representation

New York based image licensing company Trunk Archive have entered into an exclusive arrangement with publisher Condé Nast to license a selection of works from their existing Patrick Demarchelier and Arther Elgort photo archives.

829 Font Library Available Now

Ingram Publishing have released over 820 fresh, exciting designer fonts in a new collection, Professional Font Library 829
All typography designs are fresh and new - nothing included in this collection is older than 2004 - and are offered in both OpenType and TrueType formats, making this collection invaluable to any designers’ toolbox.
Every conceivable modern font style is included: Text Fonts, Distressed, Grunge, Handwritten Historic, Handwritten Normal, Artistic, Serif, Sans Serifs, Space-Age, and Headline.

VIEW The New Acropolis Museum

Architectural and interiors photo library VIEW have just received images of the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece from contributing photographer Christian Richters. With a direct view of the Parthenon, it's one of the highest-profile cultural projects undertaken in Europe in recent years. The glass and concrete building is deisgned by the New York-based architect Bernard Tschumi, and replaces the old Acropolis Museum, a small 1874 building tucked into the rock of the Acropolis. The new museum houses the Parthenon Marbles and a large collection of ancient sculptures, antiquities and artefacts.

Eat With Photocuisine

Food photo library PhotoCuisine UK are rewarding image buyers using the library throughout October and November 2009..... 'we are offering all our customers spending over £50 the gift of M&S or John Lewis vouchers'.

World Press Photo - The Archive

World Press Photo have launching a major new photojournalism resource by publishing its entire contest archive online. The website includes prize-winners going all the way back to the foundation of the World Press Photo contest in 1955, and offers a variety of search options. It is intended as a tool for media historians and for students interested in the history of photography, and as a facility for the photojournalist community, showing trends in the profession and developments in countries around the world.

Jo Terry Q&A - Picture Media Celebrates 18 Years

Photo credit: Patrick Crangle

Jo Terry
Photo Agency: Picture Media Pty. Ltd.
Position: Owner/Director
Site: www.picturemedia.com.au

Describe Picture Media in one sentence.
An independent boutique Australian-owned media agency

When did you start Picture Media?
October 1991

I notice your picture partners are mainly news and celebrity based, what other stock photo areas are you strong in?
It may seem like we are all about news and celebrity - and certainly that's a key part of our business - but we have more than 6.5 million images and pride ourselves on the diverse content we have so that we cater to absolutely everyone, whether a gossip magazine, ad creative agency looking for generic and inspirational images or an architecture bible, for example. And, of course, we represent StockFood which is the leading international food image agency for creative professionals, offering the largest food database on the internet.

Continue reading the Q&A with Jo on our Interviews page.

Go See: Jim Naughten - HotShoe Gallery

For its inaugural show - unveiling a newly constructed gallery space in central London entirely dedicated to photography and artist’s film and video - HotShoe Gallery is pleased to present Jim Naughten’s Re-enactors; a solo show of new photographic workby the artist with an accompanying monograph published by HotShoe Books.
Runs: Friday 9 October - Friday 4 December, Mon - Sat, 10am - 5pm
Where: 29 - 31 Saffron Hill, London. EC1N SSW.
Detail: HotShoe International T. 0207 421 6009

Millennium Images Volume Four - the latest catalogue

Millennium Images has announced the launch of a new catalogue, Millennium Images Volume Four
The book contains 308 photographs, one image by each of 308 contributors and it is our intention that clients use this book as an inspiration and a guide for searching our website for more images by these and our other photographers.
'Like our last book the catalogue is compact. It is designed to be an inspirational companion, an image resource, an object of desire and a fountain of knowledge. Measuring 14x9x2cms it will fit beautifully into a pocket or handbag. The production values are high. The images in Volume Four are reproduced larger and given more prominence than previously. There are features on individual photographers, indices and of course the inimitable Studio Thomson quirkiness of design. Above all it contains stunning photography by some of the most creative photographers around.'
'Volume Four will be mailed free to our clients though out the world'. It can also be able to be purchased purchased through our website.
Millennium Images are based in Hackney, London.

A pre-launch copy of this picture book arrived at the PAN office a couple of months ago, it's a stunning piece of work from a traditional stock photo agency producing a very strong traditional marketing tool. ......we are still waiting for a replacement copy as a graphic designer visiting the office spotted it, picked it up and left saying 'don't mind if I -borrow- this for a while'?....!

UPDATE: Picture Researcher Request: Woodfin Camp

A Photo Archive News reader is trying to locate The Woodfin Camp photo agency of New York - they want to pay picture reproductions fees.

If you know who now owns the collection or the whereabouts of 'Woody' the agency owner please email me on will@photoarchivenews.com

FOUND: Woodfin Camp is on +1 7180624-5477 - moved business out of the city and to Brooklyn.
Woodfin Camp
115 St.Felix Street
2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11217
We had a great response to this request and solved the problem in 48 hours - thanks again to all who wrote in.

New Site Launch: Arctic Photos

ArcticPhoto have a brand new website. Visit it for the very latest selection of pictures from Polar Regions. Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic, Oil and Gas Exploration in Siberia, science, penguins and tourism in Antarctica. - 'We specialise in Cold!'
"We are very excited because for the first time we can offer a download facility for regular clients."

Sam Barcroft Q&A - Opening The Manhattan Office

photo credit Alan Davidson

Over a new series of short Q&A's Photoarchivenews.com will be exploring the people, the products, the services and the events that make our industry tick. The interviews are designed to be a 'get-to-know-the- subject' service for readers. First up - Sam Barcroft on opening his first U.S. office.

Sam Barcroft of Barcroft Media landed back in the UK over the weekend after two weeks putting the final touches to his photo agency's first American office. The New York office opened last Monday. Photoarchivenews.com caught up with him for a quick Q&A about what it was like setting up shop in the U.S.

Why did you feel Barcroft Media needed an American office?
We've been producing lots of material out of America recently and we wanted a hub to coordinate everything from.

How does business in America differ from the UK?
Far more financially motivated in downtown New York than in London.

Continue reading the Q&A with Sam on our Interviews page.

Portfolio: Michael Putland

Diana Ross Wembley arena London 2005

Click image to view the full Michael Putland portfolio.

Topfoto Offers Holy Land Images

Topfoto is now representing Albatross Aerial Photography. Based in Israel the collection flies at the cutting edge of aerial photographic technology which reveals the Holy Land’s history, archaeology and landscapes of biblical sites from a different, sky-high perspective.
See image selection here

Shutterstock Acquires Big Stock Photo

Subscription-based stock photo agency Shutterstock has acquired BigStockPhoto, a credit-based stock photo agency, headquartered in Davis, California. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“BigStockPhoto is a leader in the stock photo industry, and an excellent fit for Shutterstock as we expand into the credit-based market,” said Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock. “This addition will enable Shutterstock to better satisfy the diverse payment preferences of stock photo buyers worldwide.”

Nature Picture Library Fly With Disney

click to view the trailer

This Friday, 25th September, Disneynature's feature film The Crimson Wing will be released in UK cinemas nationwide. Against the dramatic backdrop of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania, the film follows the birth of a tiny flamingo hatchling, and the perils and fortunes of her life in the wild.
Nature Picture Library represents photographer Anup Shah, who has documented the remarkable birth, life and survival of a million crimson-winged flamingos for the film's production. Anup was the stills photographer for the film, he was commissioned by Disney to make some new pictures and they also used some of his older material. Requiring specialised equipment to work in hot, caustic waters, Shah has captured extremely rare and intimate images portraying this incredible event in depth.

It's Back To 35mm For The Pap

the guardian.co.uk reports: Roman Abramovich's secret weapon.
Abramovich's new mega-yacht comes complete with an anti-paparazzi system

...The boat's anti-paparazzi system, described in several reports as a "laser shield", is a little less science fiction than it sounds. The lasers – beams of infrared light – are used to detect the electronic light sensors that digital cameras use instead of film. The camera is then targeted with a focused beam of bright light that disrupts the potential photo, making any shots unusable. It's not so much a space-age Star Wars laser shield, then, as a big budget version of shining a torch in someone's face....
Full article here: guardian.co.uk

NMR Works With Mary Evans To Push Archives

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The Mary Evans Picture Library , has announced that it will 'promote sales of some of the fantastic photographs kept by the National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage.'
Paul Brown, Managing Director, Mary Evans Picture Library, said: "We are delighted to be working with such a prestigious collection. This fits well with our ethos to make history in all its forms available to a worldwide audience and preserve cultural heritage for the future."

English Heritage is best known for its historic properties, but it also looks after over 10 million photographs of England's past, many of which document social history.

Rex Represents Major Newspaper Image Archives

Rex Features is now representing the entire historic photo archive of Associated Newspapers - from the beginning of the 20th Century to the present day.
The archives span over 100 years of the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday and Evening Standard.

James Balog Presents on TED

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Aurora Photographer James Balog recently created a presentation incorporating his sequenced, time-lapsed images from the Extreme Ice Survey illustrating the rapid rate at which glaciers are receding. TED, a nonprofit dedicated to spreading innovative ideas on technology, entertainment, and design, is currently featuring Balog’s presentation on their website, www.TED.com

Framepool teams with AFP

Footage agency Framepool, has announced its cooperation with Agence France-Presse (AFP), the global news agency.
AFP's more than 40 international video production units produce a wide range of reports in several languages 24/7.

Job: GENIUS SALES EXECUTIVE - Demontix

Demotix have a vacancy within their London office for a brilliant, charismatic, outgoing, hungry and massively motivated Sales Executive.
The ideal candidate for this role will be a natural communicator, with business to business sales experience. The role requires a person who is organized and hard-working with a keen interest in current affairs, culture and the media landscape.

Fulll details here: Industry Ads

Photographers Wanted: UK

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URGENT: Photographers needed at UNP.

Signs of recovery in the UK economy combined with our continued quality, reputation and competitive prices has created additional demand for photographers in and around the Following areas: Leeds, Bradford, Lincoln, Nottingham, Sheffield, Kent, Bournemouth and Dorset

Fulll details here: Industry Ads

Offside Launches World Cup Collection

Offside Sports Photography have launched their iconic World Cup Collection containing football images from every tournament since 1930.
Over the past few years, Offside have been sourcing, licensing and buying collections of World Cup images including many pictures that are unseen.
The Offside image collection includes the work of Gerry Cranham, John Varley, Mark Leech and L'Equipe.

Spotted: Mark Getty Attends Bookbinding Prize

Winner Alain Taral (above) with competition sponsor Mark Getty. photo credit: Greg Smolonski

Culture 24 reports:
A French wood veneer craftsman has become the inaugural winner of a bookbinding prize launched by the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
Alain Taral beat competition from nine countries across the world to win the Sir Paul Getty Bodleian Bookbinding Prize, using wooden joints, a steel axis, a slipcase covered in birch and precious veneers including palm, yew, bubinga and elm burrs.
Here

Grazi Neri Update - UK Image Partners Comment

We asked these Grazia Neri UK image partners to comment on the news that the agency is closing:

Daryl Bradford - Camera Press.
Graham Cross - Eyevine.
Lloyd Beiny - World Entertainment News Network - WENN.

Picture Researcher Request

This in from one of our regular readers:
Do you happen to know who may have the photoarchive of The Sphere Magazine? (The Empire's Illustrated Weekly)
Images from the magazine needed from the 1920's.

Contact the PAN office: will@photoarchivenews.com and we will pass you on to the researcher.

FOUND: THE COLLECTION IS AT
Mary Evans picture library

The Observer Will Continue Publishing

guardian.co.uk reports:
Guardian News & Media rules out Observer closure
.......There has been speculation about the future of 200-year-old Sunday newspaper as a wide-ranging strategic review was conducted at GNM, which publishes the Observer, Guardian and the guardian.co.uk website network, including MediaGuardian.co.uk........
Full report here: guardian.co.uk

Grazia Neri To Shutdown

PDN Online reports: Italian Photo Agency Grazia Neri Plans to Shut Down

Grazia Neri Agency, a major distributor of editorial photography in Italy, is shutting down, according to a message to business partners from its director.
In a message dated September 17, Michele Neri, the son of agency founder Grazia Neri, writes that the agency is entering liquidation and voluntarily winding down. He blames a “crisis of the Italian editorial market.”...............
Full Daryl Lang report here: pdnonline.com

FourFourTwo Selected For The Maggies

A FourFourTwo magazine (Haymarket Media Group) cover featuring footballer Lionel Messi is up for cover of the year in a UK-wide public poll.
FourFourTwo’s August 2009 cover, designed by art editor Anthony Moore, is nominated in the Maggies alongside memorable images including US President Obama on the covers of Esquire and Time. It stands to win best sports and men’s magazine cover of the year.
The Maggies is a national (UK) poll to celebrate and award the best magazine covers of the past year. The inaugural awards are voted for by the public via themaggies.co.uk and is an initiative of iSUBSCRiBE, the UK’s leading magazine and newspaper subscription site.

Looking For Fleet Street - A History Of Press Photography

As part of an ongoing project at Photo Archive News we have been mapping the photo agencies and photographers who worked in and around Fleet Street. We aim to produce a 'family tree' to include dates, names and 'where-are-they-now' information to preserve and highlight the press photography industry - from the beginning. This information will be used to help find original owners of content and provide an educational resource centered on the history of press photography. Some agencies and press photographers are still located close to the famous street, but most collections have been sold into larger companies or have just disappeared.
Photo Archive News has already been involved in reuniting press photographers with their photographs particularly where a photographer was a staff photographer working for a fleet street photo agency. We have mapped the path of many newspaper photo libraries, many of them having been split between various owners over the years. Many sections of the photographic archives of newspapers and agencies are still lost or, in one case we know about, buried under tonnes of concrete!

Deutsche Telekom Launches Online Photo Agency in UK

New Microstock Site Offers Wider Exposure for Professional Photogra-
phers and Talented Amateurs

Polylooks already contains more than 35,000 UK-generated images alongside its extensive European portfolio and the site is looking to expand its British photo collection, including 20,000 from its UK partner Monkey Business Images. The microstock market is currently dominated by North American providers, the company said, meaning more European-specific content was needed to cater for rising demand this side of the Atlantic.

Cleva Media Sue Ex All Black Player - Copyright & Non Payments

Cleva Media, the independent photo agency, will have its day in a French court this week as it sues the former All Black rugby player Byron Kelleher and his clothing brand, BK9, for serious copyright infringement and non-payment of more than 35,000 euros in fees plus damages and other compensation

iStockphoto Legally Guarantees All Content up to $250k

iStockphoto protects customers from copyright, moral right, trademark and other intellectual property and rights of privacy disputes up to $250,000

Starting today, iStockphoto becomes the first micropayment royalty-free image, video and audio provider to legally guarantee all files in its collection – at no cost to the customer. iStock promises that files purchased and used in accordance with the iStock license, will not breach any trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights or rights of privacy. The iStock Legal Guarantee provides that, if a customer receives a claim, iStock will cover the customer’s legal costs and direct damages to a combined total of $10,000. iStock customers looking for additional peace of mind can also purchase an extension of the Legal Guarantee for 100 iStock credits, increasing iStock’s coverage for legal fees and direct damages up to a combined total of $250,000.

Injured Child Photo Triggers Care

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Spectrum (the photo supplement in the Sunday Times Magazine) recently published an image by Jonte Wentzel from Swedish Photojournalism agency Kontinent (represented in the UK by Camera Press) of Farah, a 3 year old girl from Gaza who had been badly injured in a phosphorus attack by the Israeli army on 4th January. Her mother later died of her injuries.

The image in Spectrum was brought to the attention of David Altschuler who is the Co-Founder and Fund Chairman of the One to One Children's Fund. As a result of seeing the photograph in Spectrum, the charity has offered to pay for Farah's medical care.
It's an amazing response to a photograph and in these troubled times for photojournalism a reminder of the power of the image.
Kontinent's Magnus Laupa says "It's what every photojournalist works for, but seldom achieves."

PantherMedia - new subscription offers

PantherMedia, a rapidly growing marketplace for Royalty-Free photography with over one million images and illustrations, has just introduced its new image subscription plans for web- and print usage which start at $39.00 per month and offer images for as low as $0.13. PantherMedia unveils also the novel Corporate License, adapted to meet the specific needs of major enterprises.
Full details on their blog

A Year Of Global Change

On the 1st year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman brothers Reuters latest multimedia project produced in association with MediaStorm spans 365 days of global financial crisis.
Watch here: Times Of Crisis

PictureGroup Launches With AP Distribution Deal

From the press release:
Leading music and entertainment photographer, Frank Micelotta, has announced the launch of PictureGroup, a unique digital media production company poised to provide top entertainment companies with an integrated solution for producing, distributing, licensing, archiving, marketing and managing their photo needs and assets. Based on years of experience and in response to his high-profile clients’ input and feedback, Micelotta has developed a unique strategy to reduce costs, ensure a maximum return and exposure for clients’ visual content and manage entertainment brands’ photo and video assets.

PictureGroup also announced a strategic alliance with The Associated Press to license photos through the AP Images platform. Under the arrangement, PictureGroup will distribute content through the AP Images Web site to more than 57,000 users worldwide. At the same time, AP Images will offer premium content from PictureGroup to its online clients. Furthermore, AP Images will be able to offer entertainment assignment services and the option of using PictureGroup photographers.

Photographer Don Hunstein is VIP At The Lebrecht Garden Party

Music, arts and authors picture library Lebrecht enjoyed another successful garden party this year as renowned American music photographer, Don Hunstein, took to the mic. Despite having taken some of the most iconic music photographs of all time – the album cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Leonard Bernstein at work, Johnny Cash in his classic black attire, Billie Holiday recording in the studio – Don was a modest and humble speaker. Norman Lebrecht, writer and broadcaster, with careful and intuitive questions, enabled him to explain how he worked with these artists.
Full report and photos on the Lebrecht blog here

Cadbury For Sale - Famous Ads

With the world's chocolatiers fighting to control Cadbury we have found a useful set of famous Cadbury adverts at The Advertising Archives. Here or click on an image above.

Suzanne Viner runs the Advertising Archives Library - find and read her photoarchivenews.com interview (Nov 2007) by scrolling down our Interview page.

Barcroft Media Opens In The USA

On Monday 14th September Barcroft Media will open the doors to it's New York news operation.
Based in the heart of Manhattan, Barcroft USA's team of journalists, videographers and photographers will produce high value exclusive editorial content for newspapers, magazines, websites, TV news channels and documentary makers across the world.
They will provide a full service news bureau that will work on commission to supply reporters, photographers and resources to companies who require a high quality, reliable and trustworthy service that understands their needs and which will give them extra capabilities in one of the world's most important cities.

News production will be headed by James Nye, formerly based at Barcroft Media's Indian operation in Delhi. Features will be run by Isla Harvey, an award winning writer who comes via Barcroft's London HQ.
The launch of the Barcroft USA office adds to Barcroft Media's network of news bureaux in London, New Delhi and Melbourne.

Chinese Censorship Block Corbis.com

When someone tells you about the economic growth of China and how you need to get a presence there you probably consider copyright and low prices to be the major stumbling blocks but what do you do if the Chinese Government blocks your site from the customers? Photo Archive News has confirmed reports that one of the many international companies currently being blocked by the Chinese authorities is the Corbis.com website. Corbis have had to implement plans to continue to serve customers in China as normally as possible through other means, including with an alternate web site that has select imagery relevant to the Chinese market. Resolving the issue may not be easy and lets hope it's solved soon before censorship makes China off limits to more picture agency websites.

KeedUp Launch The 'Celebrity Micro' - Keywording From 6 pence

Keywording company Keedup is aiming to inject some much-needed searchability into the world of paparazzi images with a celebrity keywording standard priced at less than sixpence per image.

The Celebrity Micro standard will cost gossip photo agencies 13c New Zealand a picture, which is the equivalent of US 9c or a little under Euro 7c or UK 6p.

“We’re not talking about just a handful of words either,” says Kevin Townsend, CEO of the company based in Auckland. “Celebrity Micro is based on the work already done on our main celebrity keywording standard which focuses on the most crucial aspects of paparazzi images such as the news angle, the clothing style, designer labels and so on.”

Go See: 'Off The Page' - 2009 Photojournalism Graduate Show

From 10 September 2009 until 15 September 2009, 20 graduates from the MA Photojournalism at the University of Westminster will be exhibiting at P3 in London, near Baker Street.
11 – 14 September – 10:00 – 18:00
15 September – 10:00 – 20:00
Full details and photos here: photojournalists.org.uk
In association with Canon

Framepool Expands Whole World Footage Content

Framepool, the footage collection run by filmmakers, entered into a distribution agreement with BlackLight Films. Founded by award winning cinematographer, director, and producer Louis Schwartzberg, BlackLight Films offers a broad range of excellent HD imagery and 35mm cinematography - all of these are accessible now very easily via Framepool’s online collection.

The portfolio of BlackLight Films spans aerials, city scapes, wild nature, sports and cultural portraits as well as extraordinary close-up views of nature phenomena. All of these shots are distinguished because of their technical accuracy and carefully-chosen perspective. No wonder that owner and founder Louis Schwartzberg won several industry awards for his TV spots and feature films during the past years.

Topfoto Land Front Page Image - On Press Deadline!

The Saturday Times newspaper (5 Sept) ran a fully credited Topfoto image across most of it's front page, see above.
The obituary image of Keith Waterhouse - credit John Hedgecoe / TopFoto.
A spokesman at Topfoto told us "One of our researchers had left for the day on Friday when she heard the news of the death on the radio, she immediately called the office and arranged for the remaining staff to send a Keith Waterhouse photo file to all papers"

Google Defends Scanning Books Project

Watch Channel 4 News report click above

Google has defended its scanning and publishing of millions of books online by saying it is making finding information on the web more democratic.
And now, in trying to convince the European Commission, Google has incurred the wrath of France and Germany, who are worried about authors' copyright.
...The European Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding told Jon Snow she thought that Google was an asset but only as long at it played by the rules.

"The rules in Europe are of course to respect copyright - copyright is the remuneration for our authors and we need this to happen the European way......

CEPIC Against Google Settlement

CEPIC takes position against GOOGLE Settlement Agreement

Today, the European Commission has called a hearing on the implications of the Google Book Settlement for European authors, where interested parties can comment on the Settlement.

...CEPIC’s membership is directly affected by the Settlement as millions of books digitized by Google include photographs. A small part of our members licence illustrations for children’s books – included in the Agreement – other will represent photographers who hold copyright in books. Sooner or later, Google will pursue all photographic rights and work out its conditions, as has been done for writers’ rights in the present Settlement.....

Leibovitz Sued For Picture Usage

Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz is being sued by an Italian photographer who says she used his pictures without permission.
Paolo Pizzetti claims Ms Leibovitz used photos he took in Venice and Rome, and passed them off as her own in a 2009 calendar for a coffee company.
He is seeking a court order to stop the images from being used and $300,000 (£183,000) for copyright infringement.
More here: BBC

Corbis at 20 - a PAN report

Corbis celebrated its twentieth anniversary in the UK last night with a champagne party on the rooftop "Deck" of the National Theatre in the South Bank, London. Invited guests were also treated to a selection of iconic celebrity photographs from the “Storied” exhibition, all including anecdotes by the key Corbis' photographers who took them.
To find out more about Corbis Storied visit www.corbis.com/storied

Now at 20, Corbis can almost be considered an industry veteran as it predates the Digital, Royalty Free, and Microstock revolutions (or evolutions) of the picture business. It certainly played a key role during these changes and also made its mark in the great buyouts over the last decade or so. The consumation of some long establish agencies (Bettmann and Sygma for example) and some of successful start-ups (like Veer) has changed the industry landscape and we can only ask if the next 20 years will be as frantic? Time will tell but lets just hope it all ends up with another party, I am sure it will.

Christmas Past At A Luna Blue

click to view Christmas Past selection

Stock footage library A Luna Blue are offering a new selection of Christmas Past clips - starting at $29.

Mary Evans Will Market Ronald Grant Archive

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Mary Evans Picture Library, has announced a new collaboration with the Ronald Grant Archive. From September 2009, Mary Evans will be handling the international marketing and sales of this prestigious collection of cinema history on an exclusive basis, giving the Ronald Grant Archive immediate access to an extensive network of international clients and agents.

...."The history of cinema is a perfect addition to Mary Evans as it fills one of our few remaining gaps, and we are now in a position to offer clients the complete range of history, all in one place," said Mary Evans Managing Director, Paul Brown......

Corbis Grows News Coverage With Latest Photographer Signings

© Archival; Turnley/Corbis

Corbis has announced that it has signed several acclaimed photojournalists as new contributors as the company continues to expand its current events and contemporary archival photo coverage in news, sports and entertainment.
“Corbis is pleased to welcome some of the most prestigious names in photojournalism to our roster,” said Anil Ramchand, Director of News, Sports and Entertainment at Corbis. “World-class editorial photography is part of our heritage, and these talented photographers help strengthen our current events offering for media customers.”

Getty Images Partners LA Times via Contour

Jennifer Aniston - Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Contour by Getty Images

Contour by Getty Images will now represent the Los Angeles Times' high-end contemporary celebrity portraiture including photographs of some of Hollywood's biggest names such as Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman, and many more. The collaboration between Contour by Getty Images and the Los Angeles Times will give publications worldwide a unique opportunity to access their extraordinary exclusive celebrity archive.

'Visa' Via IPod

If you own an iPod you can get all the Visa pour l’Image exhibitions by downloading the free Visa pour I'image App.
Once downloaded you will be able to see previews of all the exhibitions around Perpignan.

Go See: Brigitte Bardot And The Original Paparazzi

At Night Time - stamped on reverse:Reporters Associés

Brigitte Bardot And The Original Paparazzi. An Exhibition Of Rare Vintage Photographs.
James Hyman Gallery, London. 03.09.2009 - 03.10.2009

Coinciding with the 75th Birthday of Brigitte Bardot on 28th September 2009, James Hyman Gallery presents an exhibition of 75 vintage photographs by some of the most famous paparazzi photographers.
Details here: James Hyman Gallery

ITNSource New Classics

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ITN Source's New Classics collection has digitised a raft of rarely seen footage to commemorate the 70th anniversary of WW II

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of WW II, ITN Source has digitised rarely seen footage from newsreels offering British, German and American perspectives on the biggest war in history.

The content has been added to ITN Source’s New Classics collection giving users the chance to preview a variety of coverage on WW II. It includes the Deutsche Wochenschau newsreel; a history of the Third Reich produced by the Nazi’s, which ran from 1940 until the end of the war. Heavy on propaganda, it includes a rarely seen story reporting the apparent French surrender in the railway carriage originally used for the 1918 Armistice signing at Compaigne. However, a Gaumont British story also forming part of the New Classics collection shows Charles De Gaulle rejecting France’s surrender to Germany.
More from the ITNSource: WWII Site

Launched: Canon EOS 7D

Canon have launched the EOS 7D digital SLR camera – a completely new design to meet the specific demands of photographers. Incorporating a new 18MP APS-C CMOS Sensor, developed by Canon, the EOS 7D also features: Dual “DIGIC 4” processors to offer fast, high-quality performance in all light conditions, an ISO range expandable to 12,800 and continuous shooting at 8 frames per second – without the need for additional accessories. Impressive technologies are matched by excellent build-quality designed with the photographer in mind – to create a whole new photographic experience.