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Rinky Dink at EyeCandy Images

Rinky Dink Images

EyeCandy Images, the newly launched production company, is launching a new micro stock collection called Rinky Dink.

"Whilst our RF and RM collections are very much liked by our customers, and business is growing all over the world without seeing any foreseeable change, we feel that some customers are not reached. Our style is distinct and very popular with New Media clients, who choose Micro as their first preference for images, before opting for higher priced material elsewhere. Through Rinky Dink we will connect with customers across all platforms, ensuring that Eyecandy content is available to everyone at the right prices." says Maurice Van De Mosselaar from Eyecandy Images

See www.rinkydinkimages.com

Sony Push Their Photo Archive

The New York Times reports:
'Sony Taps Into Photo Archive as a Resource During Hard Times'

Some of Sony’s music executives believe there is a gold mine under the company’s New York headquarters on Madison Avenue. It doesn’t look like much: just a small room, three floors below ground level, with a wall full of the sliding shelves you’d find in a law firm or university library.

......To sell photos from the archive, Sony BMG gets the permission of the artists or their estates and gives them a cut of sales. Since photos do not interfere with the mainstream merchandising business, most musicians have given the company their blessing.....

Here: www.nytimes.com

Advertising Archives - stock library

The Advertising Archives is a unique collection of over one million British and American press ads, TV stills, magazine covers, catalogues, greetings cards, posters, illustrations and cultural ephemera dating from 1850 to the present day.

Our specialist research team helps clients including newspapers, magazines, book publishers, TV and film production companies, advertising agencies, design groups and academics find the perfect picture. All images can be supplied promptly as high resolution scans to meet pressing deadlines.

Please call us on 0207 435 6540 or email library@advertisingarchives.co.uk with your requests.
Visit our website at www.advertisingarchives.co.uk to browse the collection.

Photo Competition - Prize Pool $70,000

2007 winner Rodney Dekker, 1 of 10 in the series Drought.
©Rodney Dekker/RovingEye.com

RovingEye's 2008 Expose Your World photo competition has a prize pool of over AUS $70,000 (about £35,000).
“The focus of this year’s expanded competition is travel with winners sharing more than $70,000 worth of prizes from major sponsors including Abercrombie & Kent, Tarraleah Lodge, Nikon, SanDisk, AsukaBook, Asus and Vibe hotels,” says RovingEye’s Business Manager Dianne Engesser.

Deadline for submissions 25th July 2008.

Competition categories are:

Photography
- Photo Essay
- Single Shot
- Young Australian Photographer of the Year
Video
- Short Video or Multimedia Presentation
Travel Writing
- Travel Story Less Than 1,200 Words
Australian Adventurer of the Year

Entering the competition is as easy as uploading images directly to the competition website where RovingEye’s new system processes information automatically in readiness for judging.

This year’s panel of judges includes Alan Davies, Curator of Photography at the NSW State Library; Mike Smith, Travel Editor of The Daily Telegraph; Bruce Permezel, Director of ABC’s Logie-award-winning documentary series Choir of Hard Knocks; Mark Munro, Federal Vice-President of ACMP; Geoff Brown, Photographic Director at Singleton, Ogilvy and Mather Group; as well as other key figures in the photographic and travel industries.

Entry to this year’s competition is open internationally to all levels of photographers, writers and filmmakers in most categories, while nominations for the Young Australian Photographer of the Year and nominations for the Australian Adventurer of the Year are required to be Australian citizens.

Finalists in all categories will also be part of an end of year winners’ exhibition with photos and video presented by Pixel Perfect Prolab. A selection of the winners’ images and stories will feature in the Australian Traveller magazine, be displayed in the stunning RovingEye coffeetable book by Asukabook and have the opportunity to be represented by RovingEye.

“Last year’s competition unearthed an extraordinary depth of talent both locally and internationally,” says Engesser. “Their collective of works have provided RovingEye Photo Library with an enviable edge, and we’re looking forward to discovering many more outstanding and talented artisans through this year’s competition.”

Since winning the Expose Your World competition last year with his poignant Drought series, Rodney Dekker has appeared on national television and currently has nine of his prints on exhibition in Old parliament House, Canberra, as part of the Beyond Reasonable Drought photography project.

2007 finalist Belinda Mason has since won the prestigious 2008 Moran Contemporary Portrait Prize held by the State Library of NSW. Both photographers sit well beside the RovingEye stable of contributors which includes World Press and Walkley winners who share a plethora of other international awards between them.

Full terms and conditions and list of prizes available at www.exposeyourworld.com

New Magazine - Power

Infinity Media Hong Kong Ltd to publish new POWER magazine.
POWER, to be launched in October in Hong Kong and Macau, will be a new business lifestyle magazine, the first of its kind in Asia.

POWER will be produced by the team behind the award-winning luxury lifestyle magazine, Prestige Hong Kong. Infinity is the sister company of publisher 3cm Media Ltd.

POWER will feature exclusive cover profiles of international leaders and business titans, interviews with influential Asian CEOs and trailblazers, and analyses of the biggest trends in the global economy. It will also celebrate the luxury lifestyle of the successful executive with the latest fashions for working women and men, exclusive and adventurous travel features, the most impressive places to dine, health tips, and how to invest in art and property.

“We believe POWER creates a completely new category of magazine which will be required reading,” says Brian Chow, publisher of Infinity Media. “Hong Kong’s business people – young and old, male and female – are the most dynamic and resilient in the world, so they need to know the ideas that are driving change in all spheres, from business and politics to the environment, arts and culture.”

“POWER is for Hong Kong’s sophisticated and elite professionals who read the Financial Times, the IHT or Wall Street Journal in the morning, and Vanity Fair at night,” says Anne Lim-Chaplain, managing director of Infinity Media. “They’re serious, but they want to have fun too. In one part of the magazine, they’ll pick up some ideas on how to make money. In another, how to fully enjoy it.”

The English-language magazine will be published monthly and made available throughout Hong Kong and Macau at selected newsstands and bookstores, as well as in hotel rooms and on airlines. The initial print run is 30,000 copies, and a significant portion of the controlled circulation will go to private banking clients, directors and CEOs of companies, investment bankers, fund managers, lawyers and other professionals, and privileged consumers of luxury watches, jewelry and fashion.

Anthony Spaeth, former executive editor of Time Asia and two-time bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal - Asia, has been appointed editor of the magazine. “We’re going to focus on the people as much as their money or businesses,” says Spaeth, also a veteran of Bloomberg Newsand Forbes. “We’ll run stories that educate, caution, illuminate, amuse and inspire. POWER will also be one hell of a sexy magazine to look at.”

Lim-Chaplain says the company plans to expand the magazine’s distribution in China and eventually to other Asian and international markets.

See: www.powerthemagazine.com/

Corbis - New Spanish Representation

Corbis have appointed Cordon Press as its representative in Spain for the editorial market, effective from June 1 2008.
“Cordon Press is a forward-looking, dynamic agency and with a proven track record in the Spanish market. This new partnership will help us bring our global offering to magazine and newspaper clients across Spain.” said Paul Harraghy, Director Global Channel Sales, Corbis.

Covent Garden Exhibition

An exhibition of photographs by Clive Boursnell showing Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower markets between 1968 and 1974.
Open 13th June to 21st June 2008
No.1 The Piazza, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8HA

FourFourTwo in Middle East

FourFourTwo will become the first football-dedicated magazine in the Middle East when it is published by a Dubai company, the Media Factory (TMF), under licence to Haymarket June 2008.

ITN Source Represents UTV

ITN Source has signed an exclusive global clip sales representation deal with Northern Ireland based broadcaster UTV to represent its news and regional programming content, with access to almost fifty years of unique Northern Ireland footage across politics, entertainment, wildlife and sport.

ITN Source already represents a collection of footage libraries including Reuters, Channel 4, Granada and FOX Movietone. The UTV agreement adds a further 50,000 hours of content.

As well as featuring video tracing the Northern Ireland troubles, the UTV collection features rare interviews with Bing Crosby, car inventor John DeLorean and a range of celebrity interviews from Kelly, UTV's chat show which ran for almost 20 years until 2004. The collection also features rarely seen interviews with Rolling Stones and the Beatles in their heyday.

Asha Oberoi, Content Director, ITN Source said:"Northern Ireland has a very rich history and UTV has captured most of that on camera over the last 50 years. This representation expands the depth and breath of ITN Source's editorial based content with unique Northern Ireland footage making ITN Source the number one stop for all customers' content needs."

Robert Lamrock, Channel Development Manager, UTV Television added: "With almost half a century of footage in UTV's archives, this partnership with ITN Source will enable UTV's unique collection to be accessed by producers from all over the world. "

For further info, visit www.itnsource.com

New Keywording Software

Swiss photoagency Kursiv will be releasing a new keywording software called "KIM Keywording" in early summer 2008, which should speed up and improve keywording for high volumes of images.
KIM Keywording will be pre-released during the CEPIC conference in Malta in June.

For more info visit: www.kursiv.com

IGPOTY 2008 Winners

Kenrokuen Gardens, Japan by Claire Takacs

International Garden Photographer of the Year, 2008. The overall winner of the £5,000 prize for the best single image is Australian, professional photographer, Claire Takacs for Kenrokuen Gardens, Japan (above). This evocative photograph of the famous Japanese gardens in a flurry of snowflakes was selected from the Garden Views category.

Best Portfolio
The Best Portfolio Prize, for £3,000 cash plus £2000 Calumet vouchers, goes to amateur photographer, Henrique Souto from Portugal for Leaves, a collection of six images. These immaculate studio shots of autumn leaves reflects Henrique’s passion for the natural world and above all, trees.

Young Garden Photographer of the Year
The Young Garden Photographer of the Year title goes to Fergus Gill for the best single image from an under 16 year old, for Partridge Reflection. Fergus is 15 years old from Perthshire, Scotland. Fergus wins a Canon EOS 40D 17-85 kit plus more that £500 worth of vouchers from Manfrotto, Kata and Visible Dust.

Category Winners
Each category received £700 cash and over £700 of equipment vouchers from Kata, Manfrotto and Visible Dust.

The winners of each category were:

Plant Portraits - Chinch Gryniewicz for Marguerites in Rain.
My Garden - Dennis Frates for Desert Garden
Garden Views – Claire Takacs for Kenrokuen Gardens
Life in the Garden - Andrew Bailey for Tug of War
Trees - Colin Roberts for Ash tree on The Downs.

The ’Trees’ category complements Kew’s Summer Festival of Trees, which will be celebrated from 24th May – 28th September 2008.

Professor Stephen Hopper, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew said "We are delighted to be showing the Garden Photographer of the Year exhibition here at Kew Gardens and hope that seeing these wonderful photographs will inspire more people to share the beauty of plants and gardens through photography. We are particularly pleased to see such fantastic international response and are already looking forward to next year when the new "World Botanic Gardens" category will complement Kew's 250th anniversary celebrations.”

The prizes were donated by Canon, Calumet, Manfrotto, Kata and Visible Dust.

The exhibition runs from Saturday 24th May until September 2008 in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. For information about how to get there, go to http://www.kew.org.

2009 competition is now open. For more details, including “early bird” offers go to http://www.igpoty.com

BigStockPhoto Hits Two Million!

BigStockPhoto has just added the two millionth royalty free image to their online stock library.
They also announced the launch of RapidView Image Display aimed at speeding up the system for their picture buyers.

RaidView Image Display is a new visual search tool aimed at significantly fast tracking image search and selection on the site.

With RapidView Image Display, users doing a search can browse and immediately view up to four times more images at once, within a compressed visual area-allowing them to scan and locate the image they need in about half the time as conventional search displays.

"With the continuing growth of our image library, which now boasts over two million royalty free images, it's imperative that we provide users with search features that provide both efficiency and ease of use," said Tim Donahue, founder and CEO of BigStockPhoto.com. "We're extremely proud of both the astounding quantity and stunning quality of images on BigStockPhoto.com and are thrilled to offer this new feature, which gives photo buyers quicker and easier access to our incredible royalty-free image library."

Conventional search displays typically occupy screen space with text data related to each photo, such as: the title of the photo, photographer, and number of downloads. Instead, RapidView Image Display eliminates the text data and displays a mosaic of images matching the search criteria-thus allowing more images to be displayed at once and enabling users to visually scan more search results instantaneously. Depending upon a user's preference, they can toggle back and forth between the two different image display modes with a simple click of the mouse.

A sneak peak of the new RapidView Image Display in action is available by visiting: http://www.bigstockphoto.com/search.php?rmode=brief&q[md]=new. The new feature is also accessible from the BigStockPhoto home page.

BAPLA CEO Resigns Today

It is reported on the BAPLA website today that 10 years CEO of the British Association Of Picture Libraries & Agencies, Linda Royles, has resigned from the association.
Also leaving is Christina Berry who worked with Linda on membership and the BAPLA Picture Buyers’ Fair since 2005.

Full story here: www.bapla.org.uk

FourFourTwo licensed in Nigeria

A Nigerian publishing team has launched a licensed edition of FourFourTwo magazine, to bring the Haymarket football title’s reach to 13 territories worldwide.
Publisher Rotimi Pedro and managing consultant Samm Audu this May launched their first Haymarket title, FourFourTwo Nigeria, with an initial circulation of 10,000.

Dennis Communications signs deal with PKR

Dennis Communications has signed a year long deal with PKR, one of the world’s biggest online poker operators, to produce a quarterly PKR print magazine for their players.
The first issue of the magazine will be published in June 2008.

The PKR publication will be distributed free of charge to an international selection of PKR customers as a premium benefit of playing at PKR.com, and is targeted specifically at advanced poker players. Bespoke content will include advanced poker strategy and advice, poker news, PKR promotions and relevant player reviews.

Look Magazine Marketing Push

Look, the weekly glossy fashion mag from IPC Media, has unveiled a national TV advertising campaign. This is the first campaign launched since Grey London won the account in March 08.

Mary Evans Launches The History Album

Mary Evans Picture Library, the specialist source for images of history, annouced its new user generated content website, The History Album.
"Social networking web sites can be said to be the phenomenon of the noughties. This takes the concept a step further - a historical networking site, linking not only places and family names but also a shared love of images of the past." says Paul Brown, Managing Director at Mary Evans Picture Library.

Launched at the National History Show at Olympia, in London, earlier this month, The History Album is designed to bring to light photographs which form a unique view of our heritage and would otherwise remain unseen.

The library, which has been supplying publishing and the media with historical pictures for over forty years, is bringing its expertise within the image industry to provide a platform for viewing, uploading, sharing, annotating and printing the pictures which have for years lain undiscovered in keepsake boxes, albums and attics around the country.

The History Album can be found at www.thehistoryalbum.com.

"Our heritage is there to be discovered and shared," says Paul Brown, Managing Director at Mary Evans Picture Library. "Although we are a commercial business, we wanted to start The History Album because we felt there was no other online facility which made the sharing of photographs, the sharing of history and connecting with the past so accessible, and which would be backed by a high level of historical expertise."

The easy-to-use site will allow users to upload scanned photographs and to comment and add essential keywords which will make them searchable to other users and family history researchers. Other features enable users to order prints of their chosen photograph and to share their favourite images with others.

"Social networking web sites can be said to be the phenomenon of the noughties. This takes the concept a step further - a historical networking site, linking not only places and family names but also a shared love of images of the past. The latter is the foundation on which Mary Evans Picture Library is built, and so we hope that the public get as much pleasure from this site as we do from working with images every day," says Brown.

Though in its infancy, the site is already growing, and will shortly be linked to a network of other historical sites to generate interest.

Fujifilm Increases Prices

Fujifilm UK Ltd announced that it is to increase the prices on its photographic papers and films in the UK. The prices will be increased from July 2008 and will range from between 10% and 20% depending on the product group. The price increases are being implemented worldwide.

To sustain its photo imaging business, FUJIFILM has been undertaking intensive structural reforms to reduce fixed costs and improve productivity, and has been absorbing the increasing costs of raw materials used to manufacture films and papers over the past few years. However, the recent soaring costs of such materials as silver and crude oil mean that FUJIFILM is no longer able to absorb these costs during the production process.

Fujifilm remains fully committed to this important market and plans to continue its product development of new photosensitive material.

Photographic Exhibition At The Tate Modern

Norman Parkinson, Wenda, Times Square, NYC, September 1949
© courtesy Norman Parkinson Archive, London

"Street & Studio" is an exhibition of international photography, presenting a history of photographic portraiture taken on the street or in the photographer’s studio.
Runs: 22nd May to 31st August 2008
Tate Modern, London

Over 350 striking works are gathered in this stylish exhibition, by some of the world’s most famous and important photographers including Francis Alÿs, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Norman Parkinson, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidibé, Paul Strand, James Van der Zee, Juergen Teller and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Focusing on photos taken in buzzing cities, with their cosmopolitan cast of hipsters, businessmen, beauties and criminals, Street & Studio builds an engrossing urban history of photography, ranging from early black-and-white pictures from the late 1800s, to elegant fashion photography from the mid twentieth century, to cutting-edge portraiture by contemporary artists.

www.tate.org.uk

Dispatches: New Quarterly Launched

First Issue Cover of dispatches - launched in May 2008

"Objectivity and fairness, vital as they are, can be difficult to define. But authority and credibility are ironclad terms, and those are our watchwords." - Mort Rosenblum (journalist/author) / Gary Knight (photographer), co-founders of dispatches

www.rethink-dispatches.com

New Work At Millennium Images

"The Vanishing Of The Images" by Florian Beckers

"My work is about photographic images that emerge from darkness and disappear partly into it again.."

In some cases the process will be pushed to the limit of visibility. But the vanishing of material recognizability has its own character of announcement, like the showing of it. In other photographs the vanishing will be defined as a central theme by the content or the subject. Space and time can no longer be registered. This creates a field of tension between illusion of three dimensionality and surface, between representationalism and abstraction, between documentary realism and fiction.

In some images the "fragments of reality " will be reduced to an almost complete vanishing of reality. How much must be shown to the observer in order to make a notion of reality visible. I understand my work as plumbing the the limits of the medium photography. By that I understand an omission, a veiling, a covering, but not the complete elimination of material representation. The things which are just visible serve only to trigger off something that exists beyond reproduction but means the essential. The process of reduction, of the taking away, of blocking out induces a process of decoding in which the observer is included. The images can thus only disclose themselves to the observer himself. They must be completed by the power of his imagination. Text by Florian Beckers

See the portfolio at www.milim.com

0257069 - Under the catwalk ©Harold Chapman/TopFoto

MaXx Images Represents Eyecandy

maXx images, a North American stock photography agency, is now offering a royalty free collection from New York and London based Eyecandy Images.
"We continue to search for collections that are inventive and unique," said Dave Maquignaz, President of maXx images

"and with the addition of Eyecandy Images, we're adding an exceptional royalty free collection that maximizes the visual communications that our clients require and demand for their design and branding projects."

"We focus on providing photography that cutting edge creatives have difficulty finding elsewhere", added Richeille Formento, Creative Director at Eyecandy Images, "we are excited about our partnership with maXx images and the ability for their editorial and advertising clients to have access to our unique imagery "

Producing innovative, daring and sexy royalty free imagery, Eyecandy Images showcases radical, bold and innovative visuals seasoned with multicultural spices.

Offering the highest quality rights-managed, royalty-free and subscription based stock photos in both Canada and the U.S.A., maXx images' extensive stock photo collection provides high quality images for advertisers, graphic designers, publishers and multimedia producers worldwide.

www.maxximages.com

Paris Signs Photo Agency Mug!

Paris Hilton signing the Mr Paparazzi mug

MrPaparazi.com, the busy celebrity pics and gossip blog from photo agency Big Pictures, managed to get Ms Hilton to sign a mug on her recent press call at Selfridges.

".....caught off guard we threw a Mr. Paparazzi mug into her hands and she signed it with a sweet smile. “Is this for you to drink your tea in, that’s so sweet” she giggled. So, did she actually love London? “Yeah I do,” she answered in her trademark high-pitched tones: “I love to party here, London’s great for that...."

Full story: click the link......and.....you can vote what they do with the mug!
When Mr.Paparazzi.com Met Paris Hilton

Pro Shots new site

Sports photo agency Pro Shots have launched their new Infradox powered site.
'We have now included some special features for our professional users such as light boxes and galleries. In addition premium customers have been given the possibility to download several pictures at the same time thru ZIP file dispatch. Feel free to let us know if you think you should have ZIP file dispatch as well.'

www.proshots.nl

PhotoAlto Move into Assignments

PhotoAlto, the photography agency, has announced that it will form an assignments division.
Matthew Goodrich, formerly of Stockland Martel and Getty Images, will help launch and grow the division.

In his new position Matthew will be serving as V.P of Business Development for the new operation.

Matthew brings years of experience and proven senior leadership in the photography assignment industry. In particular, Matthew’s background and expertise will be instrumental in taking PhotoAlto’s existing annual production schedule, global shooting locations, in-house production and post production assets, and further utilising them for individualised assignment work.

In keeping with his native roots, Matthew and the new division will be operating out of the PhotoAlto’s NY office.

Further inquiries and future developments about the assignments service can be found by contacting him and the New York office:
Matthew Goodrich
V.P., Business Development
PhotoAlto Agency
161 W. 15th Street, Suite 1C, New York NY 10011
tel: 646.827.2368
Fax : 646.435.1146
cell: 917.838.0721
matthew@photoalto.com
www.photoalto.com

PhotoAlto is a photography agency founded in Paris in 1994 by two photographers and a graphic designer. As a company founded by creatives for creatives, PhotoAlto has been known and recognized for offering photography with techniques and themes that are in the avant-garde of the industry. A decade of work has created a comprehensive photographic library of exceptional quality with thousands of images. Their love for pictures did the rest...
www.photoalto.com

Picture Alliance at CEPIC

Picture Alliance, Frankfurt based picture agency, will be attending the CEPIC Congress for the first time this June in Malta.
"..being present at internationally renowned fairs and congresses such as the Picture Buyers' Fair (BAPLA) and the CEPIC Congress plays a vital role in expanding our position on the global market.." explained Tanja Ploghaus, International Sales Manager for Picture Alliance.

To contact them and attend CEPIC visit www.cepic.org

New York Photo Festival - Open

GPOTY Finalists Announced

The Finalists in the International Garden Photographer of the Year 2008 have been announced.
All the finalists' photographs will be exhibited at Kew Gardens, London, from 22 May when the winners will be revealed.

Which would you choose? view the finalists at www.igpoty.com.

Tetra's New Creative Director

Tetra Images, a US-based royalty free stock image production company, has named Scott Gordon as its new Creative Director.

Gordon comes to Tetra with a lengthy resume which includes a stint as an art director for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, followed by art directing for Ambrosi & Associates in Chicago and, most recently, a 3-year run with the Canadian stock picture library Veer, most of which was spent as their sole U.S.-based art director.

“All of my previous work has contributed to the expertise that I bring to Tetra,” says Gordon, “but certainly my work with Veer prepared me most directly for the challenges I face with Tetra. I’m very excited about the opportunity to help build the Tetra brand’s ‘visual look’ and work directly with a highly creative group of photographers from around the world.”

Tetra Images was founded just over two years ago by stock industry veteran Tom Grill, who is best known for co-founding the Comstock picture agency in the 1970s and then serving as its chief photographer for almost three decades. Tetra is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey and has built a worldwide distribution network for its pictures which includes over 60 partners around the globe.

“Tetra is still a relatively young brand,” said company president Valerie Saunders. “but we’ve now evolved to the point where we wanted to bring a knowledgeable industry veteran on board who can hit the ground running and not only give strong visual direction to our image collection but also actively recruit new contributing photographers. Scott is a terrific fit for that position.”

www.tetraimages.com

PAN Business Services

Over 10 years PhotoArchiveNews has built a vast knowledge of the stock photo industry and relationships with the very best industry suppliers.

We are now making this knowledge available to you!

Here: PAN Business Services

Festival De Cannes - 60 Years In Photos

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As the 61st Festival de Cannes opens the organisers are celebrating 60 years of photography at the event.

"Join us as we look back over the past sixty years, celebrating the many photographers who have captures and immortalised moments from the Festival de Cannes."

Here - (select a year from the scroll down top left of the page)

Sutton Images Celebrate Image Milestone

Keith Sutton CEO Sutton Motorsport Images with Sir Jackie Stewart and Mark Sutton.

Sutton Images today celebrates setting a new milestone as its online image archive passes the 500,000 mark.

Sutton Images is the World's largest independent motorsport photographic agency, with over four million images in its archive. With the creation of the Sutton Picture Desk online archive in 1997, the agency began the task of transferring these images into digital format, a process that continues to this day. Combined with continually growing coverage of contemporary motorsport, the Sutton online archive now boasts over half a million images.

To celebrate this milestone, three-time Formula 1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart paid a visit to Sutton's head office in Towcester, near Silverstone, England, to congratulate the company and its founder and CEO Keith Sutton. Sir Jackie played an important role in the story of the company, for it was his skill behind the wheels of the Ecurie Ecosse Tojeiro and Cooper Monaco which, at Oulton Park in 1963, first ignited the motorsport passion of the then four year-old Sutton.

With the inspiration of Sir Jackie Stewart's racing exploits, Keith Sutton embarked on a career as a motorsport photographer and in 1980 went on to establish Sutton Images, a global motorsport photographic agency which today employs some of the world's best racing photographers. The company has always maintained strong links to the Stewart name, becoming the official photographic supplier to Paul Stewart Racing and latterly to Stewart Grand Prix.

Although Sutton himself was too young to capture Stewart's own F1 career on film, the success of Sutton Images allowed the company to purchase the photographic archive of the late David Phipps, which documents the years from 1960-1987, including all three of Sir Jackie Stewart's F1 World Championship successes. These stunning images form an important part of the ever-expanding Sutton archive.

Keith Sutton: "Today's milestone is a tremendous achievement for Sutton Images. I am delighted to welcome Sir Jackie to our offices, and to show him the work that we, as a company, have spent our lives creating. In many ways, the inspiration for it all lies with him, and so I am naturally honoured that he has chosen to be a part of our celebrations.

When we first launched www.sutton-images.com, we were one of the first agencies to utilise the internet to aid our clients with their image searching needs. Today, as we pass the milestone of half a million searchable images online, I would like to thank everyone who has worked for this company, and the talented group of photographers, both past and present, whose work is contained within our archive.

We never stop uploading images to our digital archive, and I look forward to the day we pass the one million mark."

Sir Jackie Stewart: "I am delighted and honoured to be considered such an inspiration to the Sutton brothers and Sutton Images and also to be asked here to mark their 500,000th online image. Who would have thought that that young boy of four years of age would have achieved such heights and made such a success story in the very competitive field that he went into.

Sutton Images are real professionals in the sport that I have spent most of my life involved in. I congratulate everyone in what is obviously a successful team in achieving so much and those that have rapidly developed the technology that has allowed the Suttons to create such an extensive archive.
I wish Keith and Mark Sutton and all at Sutton Images every success for a long and prosperous future."

www.sutton-images.com

CEPIC Congress - booking fast!

"On Friday 10 May we have 636 delegates registered for the Congress ! From the 124 tables, 114 are gone."

THe 2008 CEPIC Congress is in Malta - 4 to 8 June.

www.cepic.org/info

New Art At MGL

Indian Princess 12464 By Andrew Farley

Meiklejohn Graphics Licensing (MGL) have new images available for licensing.

View the collection at www.mgllibrary.com

Alamy - Financial Results Q1 2008

Alamy's quarterly financial statement for Q1 2008 can now be viewed here:
http://www.alamy.com/contributors/statements/default.asp

PACA - New Executive Meet To Define Objectives

President and Staff Meet In Arizona To Set Goals Including Expanding Copyright Education and Continuing Progress on Orphan Works Legislation

'Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) Executive Board members converged in Phoenix for a few days of extensive brainstorming and planning meetings. The retreat served as a kickoff of two-year terms for six Executive Board members. The new leadership looks to enhance a positive momentum the organization has enjoyed in recent years.'

“I hope to continue to build upon the already solid foundations that PACA has laid in the past few years as a voice for copyright awareness and as a participating advocate for copyright protection,” New PACA President Maria Kessler stated.

Kessler takes over the reigns from Patrick Donehue, who remains an officer as Immediate Past President. Kessler, the Vice President of Creative Business Affairs at Jupiter Images, brings vision, dedication and enthusiasm to the role.

Kessler’s “cabinet” on PACA’s Executive Board features Christina Vaughan (Image Source) - Vice President, Nancy Carrizales (Animals Animals/Earth Scenes) - Secretary, Dave Herbig (Danita Delimont Stock Photography) - Treasurer, Ben Winters (UpperCut Images) - Members-At-Large and Michael Teaster (Getty Images) - Members-At-Large. Cathy Aron, PACA Executive Director, and Nancy Wolff, PACA Counsel, remain on the Board bringing continuity to the community.

The Executive Board broke from the extensive and collaborative meetings in Arizona with objectives clearly defined and initial plans outlined for achieving these goals. Most prominent on the list is Orphan Works legislation, which has proven to be extremely beneficial to PACA’s membership. Copyright education and the general protection of the copyright laws that sustain the industry are also top priorities.

Kessler firmly believes that a community acting together can make a difference. Under her guidance the Executive Board will continue to promote the organizations mission to foster and protect the interests of the picture archive community through advocacy, education and communication. “During the upcoming term I also hope to guide PACA in an effort to shine a brighter spotlight on available and emerging industry standards for meta data and image identification. I am looking forward to serving the members of PACA.”

Assisting the Executive Board are several PACA members who are rotating into the seats of Committee Chairs. The new Committee Chairs attended one day of the planning sessions in Arizona. They set goals for their committees for the year and added insight to some of the general topic on the agenda for the coming year. Here is a list of the new PACA Committee Chairs:

Carissa Fair (Animals Animals/Earth Scenes), International Conference Chair
Maura Mulvihill (National Geographic Society), Education and Communications Chair
Lynn Eskenazi (Jupiter Images), Legal Chair
Ron Harvey (Everett Collection), Finance Chair
Jonathan Thomas (Look Photo Agency/Built Images), Membership Chair
Laurie Campbell (Alaska Stock Images), Public Relations Chair
Robert Henson (Blend Images), Technology Co-Chair
Luke Vines (Image Source), Technology Co-Chair
Sonia Wasco (Grant Heilman Photography), Marketing Chair
Cheryl DiFrank (Stock Connection), Nominations and Elections Chair
Lauretta Dives (The Picture Desk), Ethics and Grievances Chair

PACA, the Picture Archive Council of America, is the trade organization in North America that represents the vital interests of stock archives of every size, from individual photographers to large corporations, who license
images for commercial reproduction. Founded in 1951, its membership includes over 100 companies in North America and over 50 international members.

www.pacaoffice.org

Bloomsbury Auctions' First Photographic Lot

Bloomsbury Auctions, London, is to hold its first auction of photographic prints on 22 May 2008. Viewing is possible from 19th May.
There are examples of 19th and 20th century Portraiture, Fashion, Nudes, Hollywood Icons, Jazz Musicians, Street and Humanist photography, Photojournalism, Technical, Industrial & Colour studies, Still Life, City and Landscape photography.

To see the photographs for sale online visit Bloomsbury Auctions

Foto8 Summer Award 08

Have your photographs exhibited and sold in London’s HOST Gallery... seen and judged by respected industry professionals... and the chance to win the first annual Foto8 Award for Best in Show and £1000.

The Foto8 Award & Summer Show 2008: A photographic award, exhibition and print fair open to all photographers. Details here.

ageFotostock Open In Paris

age fotostock, based in Barcelona, Spain has registered a new company in France with an office in Paris at Gare de Lyon, Tour de l'Horloge, 4 place Louis Armand, bureau 204, 75012 PARIS.
The company, called age fotostock France EURL, will be distributing the age fotostock RM and Pixtal RF image collections, together with many other collections of images that are part of the impressive 7 million professionally edited images from over 250 Providers and more than 1300 photographers.

MyLoupe.com Expands With Tetra Images

MyLoupe.com, a Chicago-based stock image library, announced this week the addition of nearly 13,000 high-quality royalty free photographs from Tetra Images to its online database.
Covering a broad range of subjects including lifestyle, business, fitness etc you can browse the collection here.

From the press release:

Advertising, design and corporate picture buyers will be especially pleased, as all of Tetra’s photographs are model-released for commercial usage.

Tetra Images LLC is a Jersey City NJ-based production company founded in 2006 by stock photography icon Tom Grill. Grill is known as one of the pioneers of the stock industry due to his co-founding of the Comstock picture agency in New York, where he also served as chief photographer for almost three decades before leaving the company to pursue other business interests in 2001.

“We’re very pleased to be teaming up with myLoupe,” said Grill from his Jersey City studio. “Over the past couple of years Tetra Images has assembled a global distribution network for its pictures, and we feel very strongly that myLoupe has the sort of world-class qualities we look for in a partner.”

MyLoupe.com is a web-based visual resource which was founded in 2005 by Brian Heston with 50,000 royalty free and rights managed images; today, the company has over 370,000 high-quality images supplied by individual photographers from around the world as well as picture agencies and royalty free production companies. MyLoupe serves a diverse universe of both commercial and editorial picture buyers.

Job: Weekend Night Picture Desk Assistant (freelance)

THE WORLD ENTERTAINMENT NEWS NETWORK (WENN) is the world's leading celebrity news and photo agency providing media around the globe with, among other content, the very latest celebrity photos.

Due to continued expansion WENN have a further vacancy on its busy London picture desk.

Ideally applicants must have at least one years experience at a celebrity photo agency or on a newspaper or magazine picture desk.

You will have strong computer skills and a sound knowledge of Photoshop. You will also be familiar with FTP and have a good command of the English language.

You should have an interest in, and a good knowledge of, the fast-moving world of UK and international movie, music and showbiz celebrities. You will also be knowledgeable about the latest styles and trends in the fashion world.

You will be a good communicator with the ability to multi-task, make decisions, prioritise work under pressure and be flexible enough to meet the demands of a fast moving industry.

In return, WENN can offer a competitive salary and a guaranteed 3 shifts per week with the option of more shifts covering holidays, illness etc.
Owing to the 24/7 nature of this fast-paced industry, some shifts take place during unsocial hours.

Applicants should apply with a covering letter and cv to:
RuthAnthony
Picture Desk Manager
ruth@wenn.com

www.wenn.com

Your application will be treated in strict confidence. We regret that we are only able to reply to successful candidates. WENN is an equal-opportunities employer and encourages diversification in the workplace.

WENN, 35 Kings Exchange, Tileyard Road, London N7 9AH

Job: Weekend Night Picture Desk Assistant (freelance)

THE WORLD ENTERTAINMENT NEWS NETWORK (WENN) is the world's leading celebrity news and photo agency providing media around the globe with, among other content, the very latest celebrity photos.

Due to continued expansion WENN have a further vacancy on its busy London picture desk.

Full details here: P A N Industry Jobs

Lebrecht launch Author Pictures

Author pictures at Lebrecht - where else would you look?

Music & Arts specialists Lebrecht have launched a photo collection dedicated to images of Authors.

"Author Pictures contains thousands of images of authors and their works. By author we mean everyone who has ever written a book for publication - whether novelist or historian, poet or politician, playwright or philosopher."

www.authorpictures.co.uk

www.lebrecht.co.uk

Imagestate Media Launches Oneprice

Imagestate Media has just launched a new concept - a single price website for both stills and footage in one search - 'oneprice'.
As an incentive for people to try 'oneprice', you can purchase images for just £1 each from a selection that changes daily by registering on the 'oneprice' site.

Imagestate Media, a leading provider of stills and footage in both the rights managed and royalty free markets, launched 'oneprice’ – www.imagestateoneprice.com – the first site that allows access to both stills and footage via a single search.

oneprice enables web and multimedia users to buy both still and moving, web-resolution images with a simplified licence. For £39, end users can buy an image or video clip in one resolution, that they can use online for one year.

Also unlike other sites, oneprice lets users select, purchase and download images or footage in one go without registering, rather than having to search independently within different sections.

Sheldon Marshall, CEO of Imagestate Media, says: “We strongly believe that our customers will benefit from the greater flexibility offered by oneprice. As well as getting a great deal for web-use, our main site, www.imagestate.com enables them to extend the licence for advertising and print use as and when required.

“oneprice is the first of several product offerings that Imagestate Media will be offering to customers in the UK, USA and worldwide in the coming months.”

Stills and footage are available immediately from www.imagestateoneprice.com priced at £39 excluding VAT, US$79 and Euros 59.

Public Exhibition - Paris

2002, Venice, Giovanni Simeone, 4Corners Images

Le Figaro Magazine will show their favourite 80 images of the last 30 years in their exhibition "30 Years of Emotions" in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, until the 15th July 2008

See here for further information (in French).

Topfoto - ClassicStock USA Package

1980 1980s RED HEAD SKATEBOARDING SKATER SKATING SMILE

Topfoto Gallery Package - ClassicStock USA

New Site Preview at PBF 08

4Corners Images will show a preview of their new website at the Picture Buyers Fair this year.
The site developer, Fabio Gava of Bloomtech.it, will also be there to demonstrate the online submission editing software that 4Corners uses.