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Erickson Stock - Download your next campaign.

Contact: Jesse Hughes
707-782-9800
jesse@ericksonstock.com

Erickson Stock is home to over 21,000 unique images available for rights managed, commercial licensing.
Founded by renowned photographer Jim Erickson, this library of images is gaining positive ground as the source for emotional lifestyle and business photography. Erickson's images feature diverse topics such as travel and leisure, family and friends, business, architecture, and adventure, to name a few. With a new office in London, Erickson Stock has grown and expanded from its established California location.

Find your inspiration. Download your next campaign.

http://www.ericksonstock.com

South Africa's History In Pictures

R5.5 million project to ensure South Africa’s story is available in pictures to world publishing markets ahead of 2010 World Cup focus.
africanpictures.net, as part of Africa Media Online(AMO) (Pty) Ltd, is at the heart of an effort to ensure that when the world media turns their attention to South Africa ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup, they can find the pictures to tell the nation’s story.

Known as the African Image Pipeline (AIP), the project has been made possible with 70% grant funding from the European Union through Gijima KZN, an initiative of the Department of Economic Development in South Africa.

The AIP enables AMO to: train photo entrepreneurs from historically
disadvantaged backgrounds; digitise additional images; upgrade their
online media library and sales management system including
introducing a multi-language search facility; and provide quality
images to global audiences.

AMO makes African heritage and media digital collections accessible
to global art, media and product audiences. The company believes that
the long term ownership of African commercial and heritage
collections must remain in Africa with revenue returning to those to
whom the collections belong. While others may have access to them
(both locally and internationally) they need to be preserved in
Africa for future generations. In this way, it will be Africans that
tell Africa's story.

www.africanpictures.net

www.africamediaonline.com

Getty Images Photographers Help Compassionate Eye Foundation

Behind the scenes at a Summer Solstice shoot this year, by Bill Bon

Last week Getty Images contributing photographers as well as art directors, models and crews donated their time to participate in the third annual Summer Solstice creative photo shoots in cities across America, to benefit the Compassionate Eye Foundation.

Established by Getty Images contributing photographer, Robert Kent, the organization seeks to improve education, health care and economic opportunities in developing countries.

By donating royalties from the licensing of imagery captured during Summer Solstice shoots through Getty Images' Web site, the photographers help generate a steady source of funding for the Compassionate Eye Foundation's philanthropic projects. To date, the foundation has built an elementary school in Tuixoquel, Guatemala and is heading several other successful projects including a scholarship fund, a women's health group and a program that educates rural teenagers.

For more information on the Compassionate Eye Foundation's partnership with Getty Images and to view imagery captured during past Summer Solstice shoots, visit: www.gettyimages.com/cef.

Imagery from last week's shoots will become available on the Getty Images Web site in the coming weeks.

Kodak Stock Rises

Reported On Reuters 24 June.........

By Franklin Paul
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co (EK.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Tuesday it would buy back up to $1 billion of its stock, driving the photography company's share price up nearly 17 percent from historical lows.

Read the full article at www.reuters.com

Job: Epicscotland Seeks New Library Manager

Epicscotland is seeking a new member of the team to develop the picture library and manage the commissions. Based in Glasgow the position is full time and the salary is dependent on experience.

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Epicscotland Seeks New Library Manager

Epicscotland, the best respected photo agency north of the border is seeking a new member of the team to develop the picture library and manage the commissions.

Based in our offices in Glasgow the position is full time and the salary is dependent on experience.

You will have a proven track record in the picture library industry and have a broad knowledge and understanding of copyright coupled with the ambition and vision to develop existing client relationships and bring in new business.

Responsibilities:

Overall manager of the archive, overseeing metadata and keywording on
Digital Rail Road database.

Taking commissions, dealing with picture requests and providing quotes.

Identify potential picture sales

Managing the diary and a small team of photographers on commissions.

Managing some aspects of the commercial relationship – invoices,
remittances.

Essential skills / experience:

Thorough understanding of copyright and proven track record in licencing
images.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills to develop existing client
relationships, bring in new business and manage the team of commissioned
photographers.

Strong organizational skills with a close attention to detail.

Ability to prioritize.

Photoshop, Photo Mechanic, Excel & Word (Filemaker preferred)

To apply: send your CV with a covering letter to ashley@epicscotland.com
Will consider job sharing applicants.

Outsourced Keywording On The Up?

CEPIC Convention 2008 - photo: Paul Brown

The tide is starting to turn from in-house to outsourced keywording if the recent CEPIC convention is anything to go by, says Keedup managing director Kevin Townsend.

“Between the PACA convention last October and CEPIC this month (June) there has been a noticeable change in the number of companies interested in the outsourcing message. That same pattern was repeated in talks with a series of British photo libraries after the convention.”

Mr Townsend put the change down to two main factors – constantly changing keywording standards and the growth of digital imagery.

“Because companies such as Getty, Corbis and Jupiter are so influential in the market you have to stay up with the play as their standards change. Many photo libraries simply don’t generate enough images to warrant keeping up to speed with what is required. We heard from a number of companies at CEPIC who were complaining that they found the whole thing was too difficult to keep up with, and who can blame them.

“It’s not just a matter of paying attention to the changes, staff have to be trained and re-trained, software has to be altered. All of that adds greatly to the cost as well as the angst.”

As the number of images being produced in the digital age continued to grow, the problem of managing workload was getting much harder.

“You would think that more images would enable in-house teams to flourish. In some cases that’s true, but for many libraries the problem is dealing with production spikes.”

Bigger volumes of images made such spikes proportionally bigger and the feast and famine cycle added greater stress for photo library managers.

“The choice is to always get images out quickly, but suffer from overstaffing to achieve that, or to keep staffing at reasonable levels but be unable to cope when the pressure goes on.

“Often keywording is being done by people who would be better off spending their time selling images, recruiting photographers or editing production.”

Mr Townsend said the problems for editorial photo libraries were even worse, and some companies which had been adamant a year ago that their keywording would always be done in-house were now considering making the move.

The problems of production spikes were multiplied several times over because of the very high volumes amongst celebrity and news photo agencies, plus they had the problem that their images need to be out in the market place within hours.

“We know very well from our own experience that managing keywording operations around the clock isn’t easy or cheap. But if you are serving a global market your images need to be on that market keyworded and captioned and ready to go. Waiting around for the day staff to come in means you will be that much behind the competition.”

www.keedup.com

ITN Source In Deal With Al Jazeera

ITN Source has signed a six figure global deal with Al Jazeera giving the network access to over 800,000 hours of video content for use in its programming.

Al Jazeera and independent production companies making programmes for the network now have unlimited access to all footage libraries represented by ITN Source including the Granada, ITN, Reuters, Channel 4 and British Pathe collections as well as a growing catalogue of HD stock footage. The licence agreement covers unlimited global transmissions on the Al Jazeera Network, their associated carriers and online outlets including Al Jazeera’s YouTube pages for a period of 5 years.

Neil Meadows, Sales Director of ITN Source said: “ITN Source has worked closely with Al Jazeera to deliver a flexible and transparent deal that brings first rate video content including a wealth of global and historical Middle East footage. This agreement will give Al Jazeera and production companies working with them priority service and simple clearances.”

Tony Burman, Managing Director of AJE from Al Jazeera Europe said: “This deal helps us plan and budget our productions costs more effectively. ITN Source has an impressive collection of editorial led video content that spans over three centuries and will add great value to our programming”.

New Editor At Blend Images

Blend Images Names James Doherty as Senior Editor
Doherty joins the Editing Team to focus on Artist Recruitment, Content, Art Direction, and Editing

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blend Images, the world’s leading multiethnic stock photography agency, today announced that James Doherty has been appointed to the position of Senior Editor.

In this role, Doherty will be responsible for artist recruitment, content art direction, and editing for the Blend collection. He will be based on the East Coast and report to Sarah Fix, Creative Director at Blend Images.

Doherty has more than 13 years of experience in the stock photography business. Most recently, as a Photography Editor at Getty Images, he edited and maintained the Getty house collections, while also providing art direction to contributing photographers. Previously, he was with the Stock Market Photo Agency where he held positions as Senior Photo Researcher and Account Executive.

“As we develop the Blend collection, it’s important that we continue to generate the very best lifestyle and business imagery in the industry,” said Rick Becker-Leckrone, CEO of Blend Images. “Jim’s knowledge and experience in the industry, and the longstanding relationships he has with photographers, will be valuable as we expand the collection to include rights-managed imagery, and develop the world’s first ethnically diverse online stock content portal, blendimages.com.”

ACAP Adopts Plus Image Licensing Standards

ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) and the PLUS Coalition (Picture Licensing Universal System) have just announced that ACAP has adopted the PLUS image licensing standards to allow internet search engines to recognize image rights information.
The integration of the PLUS standards within ACAP is a milestone for both organizations, and will allow image creators, distributors, users, museums, libraries and educational institutions to more easily identify, access and understand rights information associated with images.

ACAP, the new, global, non-proprietary, machine-readable protocol that enables publishers to control how their online content is re-used, is to adopt semantics of the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS). The PLUS standards simplify and facilitate the communication and management of image rights, providing for increased automation and machine readable image licenses.

ACAP will use the PLUS License Data Format and PLUS Media matrix standards to supplement the existing ACAP vocabulary for communicating license-related information in a machine-readable form to web crawlers and other automated devices that use web content. ACAP has previously concentrated on text-based web resources, and its adoption of PLUS semantics is part of a planned extension of ACAP to meet publisher requirements to communicate more precise terms for use of photographic and other media resources by web crawlers.

Project Director Mark Bide said: "PLUS is a perfect fit for ACAP. We have said from the start that ACAP is not about re-inventing the wheel but about filling in the missing pieces of jigsaw to allow all content providers to express, in a machine-readable way, how they wish their content, whether that be pictures, music, film or the written word, to be re-used in the online environment."

Jeff Sedlik, President and CEO of the PLUS Coallition said: "ACAP has made astounding progress in a very brief period. By adopting the PLUS standards, ACAP will now expand beyond textual content to the communication of image rights. The close collaboration between ACAP and PLUS will benefit everyone involved in creating, distributing, using and preserving images."

To find out more visit: www.the-acap.org or www.usePLUS.org

Job: Picture Researcher at Lebrecht

Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library are looking for a Picture Researcher.
A graduate with one year's picture library experience to work in a small friendly and expanding library in north-west London.

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Surfers Attack Paparazzi

Reported on www.Enews20.com.......

A 29-year-old photojournalist trying to photograph and videotape actor Matthew McConaughey at the beach on Saturday told police that he was attacked by a group of surfers who threw his camera in the ocean and stuck him.

Read the full story at www.Enews20.com

Picture Researcher at Lebrecht

Picture researcher at Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library
Graduate with one year's picture library experience to work in small friendly and expanding library in north-west London. We are looking for someone who is:
- graduate with excellent grades and one European language (French or German preferred)
- computer literate
- confident with clients on the telephone and prepared to ring new accounts to establish new business
- thorough in keeping records
- familiar with keywording and writing captions
- motivated and self-starter
- experienced in administration using a database
- anticipate and respond to client needs
- negotiate RM picture licenses
- good knowledge of music & literature desirable

Contact Elbie Lebrecht at elbie@lebrecht.co.uk with CV and covering letter

Stephen Butler - Photographer - TV Specialist

Documentary News and Television stills photographer Stephen Butler has worked on most major BBC shows from parkinson to match of the day.
Clients include Daily Mail,American Media Inc,News Limited Australia,BBC,
West London based.
Available now for film stills or stills for drama,entertainment.
Call Steve on 07970 430606
Email: stevebphoto@hotmail.com
Web: stephenbimages.com

Getty Images Shareholders approve sale

from the press release:

Getty Images Stockholders Vote to Approve Acquisition by Hellman & Friedman
SEATTLE, June 20, 2008 - Getty Images, Inc. (NYSE:GYI) announced that its stockholders voted at a special meeting today to adopt the merger agreement entered into on February 24, 2008 providing for the acquisition of Getty Images by affiliates of the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC.

Adoption of the merger agreement was subject to two votes. Under Delaware law, the merger agreement was required to be adopted by the holders of a majority of the shares of the company’s common stock outstanding on the record date of May 20, 2008. Holders of approximately 75% of these shares voted in favor of the adoption of the merger agreement, representing 96% of the votes cast.

In addition to the vote required under Delaware law, the merger agreement was required to be adopted by the holders of a majority of the shares of the company’s common stock present in person or by proxy and voting at the special meeting, other than Getty Investments L.L.C., Mark Getty, The October 1993 Trust, Cheyne Walk Trust, Ronald Family Trust B and Jonathan Klein. Holders of approximately 95% of these shares voted in favor of the adoption of the merger agreement.

Under the terms of the merger agreement, Getty Images stockholders will receive $34.00 in cash, without interest, for each share of Getty Images common stock held at the effective time of the merger. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions, the transaction is anticipated to close during the week of June 30, 2008.

GreenLight To Rights

Balantine Ad
GreenLight, Corbis' rebranded Rights Service, has recently announced its rights and music clearances work for advertising campaigns for leading brands such as Old Spice, Ballantine’s (above) and American Family Insurance.
It has also signed several licensing agreements on behalf of the Steve McQueen estate.

GreenLight has recently worked with leading advertisings agencies in North America, Europe and Asia including Weiden + Kennedy, Publicis, Element 79, and Y&R. The announcement was made at Cannes Lions 2008, the 55th International Advertising Festival, held June 15-21 in Cannes, France.

Weiden + Kennedy of Portland, Oregon turned to GreenLight to help clear a photograph of actress Kim Novak to be used in a print ad for Old Spice deodorant. After W+K’s creatives stumbled across the photo in a book of historical celebrity images, GreenLight was able to locate and secure the appropriate copyright so that the advertisement could feature the image of the famous actress along with the memorable tag-line “Blondes Prefer Gentlemen.” The ad was initially intended to run just once, but it drew such a positive response that Old Spice extended the campaign.

“We knew that the image we discovered would be perfect for our campaign, and GreenLight really came through in quickly handling the clearances for us,” said Heather Smith Harvey, Art Buyer, Weiden + Kennedy. “Their involvement helped us create a really fun ad that connected with consumers.”

GreenLight also worked on behalf of Publicis UK to clear the use of images of John McEnroe, Steve McQueen and other iconic personalities to appear in Ballantine’s Whisky advertisements in Spain and Portugal.

The Intellectual Property service firm, signed ligensing agreements on behalf of the Steve McQueen estate for the production, marketing and sale of limited edition motorcycles, racing gear and other apparel by companies including Métisse-Motorcycles, Johnson Motors, a2z Racer Gear, Toys McCoy and Triumph Motorcycles.

“We free up creatives to spend more time and energy on developing great concepts,” said Mark Sherman, Senior Vice President and Head of GreenLight. “Our mission is to provide airtight clearances quickly and cost-effectively to help great advertising ideas fly.”

www.greenlightrights.com

Image Source launch "Sneak Preview"

"We decided to showcase this current collection in paper format as we remain excited about how well our images work in print and we want to confirm to any designer that they can be bold in using our imagery large and out loud." said Christina Vaughan, Image Source Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

Image Source launches “Sneak Preview” – portraits for advertising and design with attitude and authenticity

Image Source, producer of royalty free stock photography, today announces the launch of its showcase catalogue “Sneak Preview” demonstrating its latest collection of high end imagery including a folio of World Portraits, the innovative ‘Fair Trade’ photo collection that directly benefits the people photographed. The uniqueness of World Portraits is that every time a photo is sold, the sitter receives a royalty and can share in the profits.

The new 54 page booklet is innovative in its touch, feel and creative format and is set to inspire designers worldwide. Working closely with Hamburg based designers, elbstern.com, Image Source wanted to draw in modern media techniques combined with traditional artisan skills, hence the unusual cover of 4 colour print coldfoil on 350 gram Profigloss paper stock. Internally, showcasing the contrasting collections of raw World Portraits against the highly polished Celebrity styled portraiture are two distinct paper stocks of 150grm Taurus Offset white naturepaper and150 g/gm Profigloss glossy white.

“It is some time since Image Source produced a print book, as we have chosen to work increasingly in other media, partly to reach a growing customer database online and partly to demonstrate our commitment to reducing our carbon footprint” said Christina Vaughan, Image Source Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

“Sneak Preview” is available now from Image Source direct sales offices in London, Cologne and New York. www.imagesource.com

Job: Lebrecht Require Picture Research Assistant

Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library are looking for a recent graduate with good academic grades, to join our small, friendly and expanding office in north-west London.

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John Birdsall Commissions Offer

John Birdsall Social Issues Photo Library is offering 50% off photography commissioned before the end of July.
If you need tailor-made photos involving older people this offer may be worth looking at, for more details visit www.johnbirdsall.co.uk

Picture Research Assistant at Lebrecht

Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library are looking for a Picture Research Assistant.
We are looking for a recent graduate with good academic grades, to join our small, friendly and expanding office in north-west London. The ideal candidate will be a good English speaker with fluent French or German, interested in IT with good computer skills and a knowledge of photography. The successful candidate will be well-organised, have a confident telephone manner, be accurate, curious, hard-working, prepared to be pro-active and with good general knowledge.

Email CV and covering letter to elbie@lebrecht.co.uk

Job: Picture Researcher Required at Mary Evans

Picture researcher required to join growing team at Mary Evans.
The last eighteen months has seen considerable expansion of the business, both in terms of clients and the increasing size of their collection. Subsequently, Mary Evans are seeking an enthusiastic and knowledgeable new member of staff to join the picture research team.

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Mary Evans - Picture Researcher

Picture researcher required to join growing team at Mary Evans.

Mary Evans Picture Library is the UK’s leading resource for historical pictures and has been supplying the publishing, media and design industries with images from its extensive archives for over forty years. The last eighteen months has seen considerable expansion of the business, both in terms of the clients we work with and the increasing size of the Mary Evans collection. Subsequently, we are seeking an enthusiastic and knowledgeable new member of staff to join the picture research team.

Responsibilities will include:
• Online picture research from the large collection of images already scanned and available through the website.
• Offline picture research and retrieval of original material from the archive.
• Primary responsibility for handling enquiries concerning the Illustrated London News Picture Library.
• Prioritising picture requests so that all deadlines are met comfortably.
• Regular contact with clients in order to check on project progress and to maintain good long term working relationships with clients.
• Negotiation of picture usage fees with a broad range of clients.
• Captioning and keywording of pictures.

Skills and qualifications ideally required
• Excellent communication and telephone skills.
• A good eye for detail.
• A keen interest in and knowledge of history.
• Broad general knowledge.
• Proven administrative experience and computer literacy.
• Proven ability to prioritise work.
• Education to degree level, ideally in a history related subject.
• Foreign language skills would be advantageous, but not essential.

Please visit our website at www.maryevans.com for more information about the library.

To apply, please send your CV, along with a covering letter in support of your application, and your salary expectation, via email to Mark Vivian at mark.vivian@maryevans.com

Or by post to:
Mark Vivian
Picture Research Manager
Mary Evans Picture Library
59 Tranquil Vale
Blackheath
London
SE3 0BS

Deadline: 30th June 2008

PhotoShelter Plan to Replenish Global Photo Stock

PhotoShelter, with co-sponsors Nikon, Adorama Camera and Shoot Digital are planning an event to on 20 July 2008 aimed at replenishing the global stock photo supply in areas of the greatest buyer demand. Registration for Shoot! The Day is open.

PhotoShelter have also launched The School of Stock , a new online guide to understanding what stock photo buyers' want and how they want it - directly from the minds of leading image buyers and successful photographers.

These announcements are a direct response to insights from a recent stock photography industry survey conducted by PhotoShelter that captured the impressions of over 700 photo buyers, editors and art directors. The survey confirmed the stock photo supply is outdated and has run dry in key, often-used areas.

Register for Shoot! The Day at www.shoottheday.com.
Visit the School of Stock at http://blog.photoshelter.com/school)

PhotoShelter Industry Survey: Buyers Are Bored
Through its industry survey, PhotoShelter uncovered stock photo buyer discontent, with:
nearly 75% of respondents indicating they have seen all the content currently available through major channels.
Buyers indicated the worst categories in stock photography, in terms of quality and breadth of available imagery, were:
- healthcare (87.7%),
- multicultural and diversity lifestyle (86.1%),
- senior citizens lifestyle (85.6%) and,
- consumer technology and products (84.4%).
The full results are available at the School of Stock (http://blog.photoshelter.com/school).

With these new initiatives, PhotoShelter is mobilizing the global community of photographers to address buyers' most critical needs.
"It's surprising to see such a huge communication gap between two sides of an industry that depend on each other to succeed. Buyers are searching in frustration for fresh images, while thousands of talented photographers worldwide continue to invest time and resources into shooting for stock without any awareness of buyers' most pressing needs," said Allen Murabayashi, CEO of PhotoShelter. "Starting today, PhotoShelter is closing the gap. We're creating an unprecedented dialogue between photographers and image buyers. We're then empowering photographers with access to new information to create an evolving pipeline of imagery that is precisely attuned to customer demand. And, we're all going to have some fun together while we do it."

Shoot! The Day: July 20, 2008
Register at www.shoottheday.com.
On Shoot! The Day, photographers worldwide are invited to help replenish the current supply of stock images in five key categories -active seniors, youth culture, family and kids lifestyle, business settings and still life. All participants will have the opportunity to compete individually and in groups for prizes provided by sponsors, and for recognition and sales. Simultaneously, at Shoot Digital Studios in New York City, hundreds of photographers will gather for a full day of symposiums, and 20 photographers will be chosen to accompany renowned experts for live, on-location photo shoot seminars focused on the same five image categories, with best-in-class gear provided by Nikon.
Beginning today, photographers can register free of charge, at www.shoottheday.com to participate in all Shoot! The Day events including:
• Shoot! Anywhere Online Community, and Remote Groups. Photographers worldwide are encouraged to register for the event and participate remotely either individually or as part of a regional group or association. Participants can create their own local events that include organized shoots in the day's five main image categories and where appropriate, expert instruction and parties. Several PhotoShelter partners have already started assembling online groups and remote events in key cities worldwide, including the Advertising Photographers of America (http://www.apanational.com), Slideluck Potshow (http://www.slideluckpotshow.com/), and Strobist (http://strobist.blogspot.com/). The Shoot! The Day global community, accessible through www.shoottheday.com, will begin growing online starting today.
• Shoot! On-Location. 20 spots are available, by application only, for PhotoShelter Collection contributing photographers to join recognized experts for live photo shoots based on the day's five key image categories. Top-of-the-line equipment will be provided by Nikon, and models, stylists, makeup artists and photo assistants will be provided by PhotoShelter. The application deadline is June 25, 2008 and selected photographers will be announced June 30, 2008.
• NYC Live Gathering. 500 spots are available, on a first-come, first-served basis, to register and attend this all-day event at Shoot Digital Studios filled with demonstrations and panel discussions featuring photographer, technical and image buyer experts. Partners Nikon, Adorama Camera and other leading industry brands will be on hand offering hands-on product demos and special discounts. The event will culminate with an evening party and a sampling of the five on-location photo shoots from earlier in the day.
• Competition, Prizes, and Image Sales Opportunity. All photographers who take pictures in the five Shoot! The Day categories are encouraged to submit their work to the PhotoShelter Collection, PhotoShelter's stock photo marketplace, where images can be licensed as stock photography to top buyers. By submitting images by July 27, 2008, photographers will be eligible for prizes and large scale recognition. Best images from Shoot! The will be selected by a panel of leading image buyers. Winners will be announced September 8, 2008.

"This industry has been missing fresh thinking for a long time," said Doug Schneider, Director of Photography, Benchmark Education Company. "It seems like PhotoShelter has nailed a solution for us. I'm so excited to see how the photographers across the world respond, and of course, how quickly I can access their new images."

"From professional shooters to casual shutterbugs, this is a great chance for photographers across the world to learn about the important role that quality stock photography plays in everyday life," said Edward Fasano, general manager for marketing, SLR System Products at Nikon, Inc. "By actively contributing as the exclusive camera manufacturer for Shoot! The Day, our aim is to educate the photographer, and provide them with the equipment and the knowledge that helps to unlock the creative potential that resides in all of us."

Promotional partners for Shoot! The Day include JPG Magazine (Lead Media Sponsor), the Advertising Photographers of America, Slideluck Potshow, Strobist, Blind Spot Magazine, City Magazine, FlakPhoto, Artlog, and Humble Arts Foundation.

Photographers Get Schooled on Stock...by the Customers
The School of Stock is PhotoShelter's new effort that will provide photographers with clear guidance on how to succeed in the stock photography business. On an ongoing basis, the School of Stock will provide practical insights culled from interviews with stock photography's "power users"- art buyers, photo editors and creative professionals at leading magazines, advertising agencies, publishing companies and corporations. Moreover, recognized pro photographers provide production insights on shooting for stock. Participating buyers for the features include professionals from media outlets like McGraw Hill, Discovery Communications, American Express Custom Solutions, MTV and advertising firms like Grey Worldwide and Agency RX. School of Stock content is presented for all experience levels including seasoned photographers looking for new ideas, the art or commission photographer who wants to get into stock for the first time, or the hobbyist who believes their work might have commercial potential.

About PhotoShelter - visit www.photoshelter.com

Virtual Museum of Art - Open

Corbis announced the grand opening of the new Museum of Art for the Arts (MofAA). The MofAA is a virtual museum fictitiously based in New York City that is dedicated to being the foremost art and image museum in the world..

Take a virtual tour www.mofaa.org

Through the leadership of its mostly imaginary Trustees and staff, the MofAA manifests its commitment to the arts by acquiring, preserving, and displaying collections of superior quality. The MofAA collections reflect past, current and future visual expression and transcend national and cultural boundaries. It’s also a great way to explore and have fun with the Corbis images that fill the museum.

The virtual three-story building perched high above Broadway in the Flatiron District of New York City houses the main collections and temporary exhibition galleries with 250 landmark works of art plus thousands of other images borrowed from Corbis’ world famous contemporary and historical collections. Much of the MofAA is also translated into English, French, German and Italian for visitors from around the world.

Each floor represents a different level of access for visitors. The first floor is general admission that is open to the public and features one exhibit. The second floor is open to members, or people who are registered with Corbis, and features additional exhibits and activities. The third floor, dedicated to benefactors, features additional exhibits and benefits for select clients.

Visitors to the MofAA enter into a multimedia experience with photography, paintings, audio tours and music, which is provided courtesy of Trackdown Music (www.trackdownmusic.com). There are also community features like blogs for exhibitions and a live newsfeed of the latest real and fanciful happenings in the art world such as recent art thievery and ‘suddenly’ discovered priceless works. New features and functionality will be added in the coming months to continue to enhance the experience and enable dialogue amongst visitors, including the ability for users to curate and share their own exhibitions.

“The MofAA is helping to create a greater sense of community amongst art enthusiasts who appreciate humanity’s enduring fascination with art and photography through the ages,” said Brooke Hendricks, the mythical President Emeritus of MofAA. “We invite everyone to wander through our galleries and engage in a series of open-ended arguments and counter-arguments that reflect the issues of our lives -- or just write funny comments about the pictures!”

Current exhibitions include “Tes One”, a contemporary artist blurring the lines between graffiti art and graphic design; “Music Legends”, featuring photographs of the some of world’s most famous artists; “Car Songs”, an ode to our love affair with cars; and “Music & Lyrics”, an inspiring mix of images that invite patrons to write their own title or lyrics.

The MofAA is the brainchild of FWIS, a New York City graphic design firm. Firm partners Ben Pieratt, Eric Jacobsen, and Christopher Papasadero built the MofAA to create a dialogue between the established and the avant-garde, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of contemporary culture, while being accessible to a public that ranges from the scholarly to the casually curious.

“Corbis’ collection is astoundingly deep and broad, and the images contained within it have profound impact on our culture – creative or otherwise,” said Christopher Papasadero, Creative Director, FWIS. “The MofAA highlights this imagery as a modern museum should - through well-curated exhibitions and public participation, on display."

Photographer Accuses Marvel and Paramount

According to Photo District News, a Los Angeles photographer has filed a lawsuit agains Marvel and Paramount.
Ronnie Adams, a freelance photographer, claims the makers of the movie Iron Man illegally used one of his photos in the film as part of a mock newspaper front page.

See the full article at www.pdnonline.com

New: Foundation Degree In Press Photography

The Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education’s East Coast Media Centre and The Press Association are due to launch an exciting new Foundation Degree in Press Photography for September 2008.
Jez Goffin, Course Coordinator in Press Photography at the Institute said: "This course is a new and exciting opportunity for people wanting to forge a successful career in press photography, whether they are straight from college or have been working in the industry already, this course is designed to meet the needs of a diverse range of applicants.”

The course is being offered to fulfil the industry’s need for graduating photographers who have essential skills specific to press photography, including video production, digital processing and how to operate on a pictures desk. Alongside practical skills, training on newspaper practice, law and public affairs will be delivered.

Students will use the highest standard of equipment and state of the art facilities as training is delivered at East Coast Media, which is part of the Nikon Academy network. The Press Association’s top professionals will deliver training on a regular basis alongside industry-experienced tutors.

Martin Keene, Group Picture Editor at The Press Association said: “The Press Association is delighted to be working with the Institute’s East Coast Media to help deliver a course that we hope will ensure that the next generation of press photographer will be better equipped than ever before with the skills that they need for a successful career in this rapidly evolving industry.”

Visit the website at East Coast Media Centre

Corbis launches "GreenLight"

Corbis today announced that it is rebranding its Rights Services division to “GreenLight” and will begin offering talent negotiation.

GreenLight (www.greenlightrights.com)

Talent negotiotion will help companies and advertising agencies secure celebrities for advertising and other promotional activities. The announcement was made at Cannes Lions 2008, the 55th International Advertising Festival, held June 15-21 in Cannes, France.

The launch of GreenLight, effective today, advances Corbis’ strategic approach to create a network of brands to serve different customer segments. The GreenLight brand will more clearly distinguish Corbis’ Rights Services division from its well-known image licensing business.

“There is phenomenal growth in the use of music and other iconic content in both advertising and consumer products, and the launch of GreenLight underscores what we see as a huge long term trend and business opportunity,” said Gary Shenk, CEO of Corbis Holdings. “The GreenLight brand will accelerate our momentum in this market while continuing to complement our image licensing businesses.”

GreenLight will also expand its offering to include Talent Negotiation, helping marketers to broker endorsement deals with sports, film, television, music and other celebrities for new product launches as well as for advertising and marketing campaigns. With the addition of this new service, GreenLight offers companies and advertising agencies one place to handle all types of rights and clearances services.

“Our mantra is that ‘It’s easy when you know who’ — and we have relationships with the key agents, music publishers, TV and film studios and other rights holders in Hollywood and around the world,” said Mark Sherman, Senior Vice President and Head of GreenLight. “We’re one of the most experienced global rights services firms with a team of dedicated experts across three continents. And to protect our clients, we indemnify them for the rights we clear.”

Red Cover Brings You Grey Crawford

© Grey Crawford, Red Cover
Red Cover now offers a selection of the work of US photographer Grey Crawford who has worked with many high profile magazines and has produced 14 books.

To view a selection of Grey's work see www.redcover.com

Red Cover also have a new image collection from Practical Pictures.

Media Storehouse - e-commerce solutions for images

Media Storehouse provides premier e-commerce solutions to organisations large and small allowing them to maximise the profit from their images.

A minimum of effort is required to make your images available to customers old and new worldwide as quality photographic products. We take care of getting the application up and running for you, all you need do is provide the images.

Once launched we manage the site, the commerce, the fulfilment and customer services. You have full control over the content of your site, the products and prices and have real time access to performance and sales metrics. As we work on a profit share basis we even remove any risk. As well as providing you with your own branded site your images can also appear on our portal which due to the variety and quality of the images on it gets excellent traffic opening up a valuable new stream of potential customers.

Web: www.MediaStorehouse.com
Email: sales@mediastorehouse.com
Tel: +44 (0)1923 802822

Shoot Magazine No More

It has been widely reported in the press that Shoot magazine is closing down after nearly 40 years. The IPC football magazine, so popular in the 70's, 80's and 90's, has suffered from falling sales.

Read the news at: Mail Online, The Guardian.

Offside Sports Photography

Offside Sports Photography - Quality Sports Photography: Past and Present.

Offside are Britain's leading independent sports photo agency. Offering great service and sports imagery from around the world.

Offside sells the following collections:
The Mark Leech Collection.
Gerry Cranham's Sports Archive.
The L'Equipe Archive.
The Marca Collection.
John Varley's Football Collection.

email: mail@welloffside.com
web: www.welloffside.com
tel: +44 (0) 20 7253 3344

Dreamstime Goes Multilingual

Dreamstime are now offering their images in multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German and Portuguese).
Dreamstime.com now offers more than 3 million images in seven different languages, "Certainly, this enhancement is in keeping with customer demand,"said Serban Enache, CEO and co-creator of Dreamstime.com "....makes Dreamstime more accessible to more buyers. People are simply more confortable reading their own language.."

Contributors will upload in English, while the Dreamstime software automatically translates all information (including the title and description of images) into the various languages.� Users can then access all material in their native tongue through the following links:

http://es.dreamstime.com (Spanish)
http://de.dreamstime.com (German)
http://fr.dreamstime.com (French)
http://it.dreamstime.com (Italian)
http://pt.dreamstime.com (Portuguese)
http://nl.dreamstime.com (Dutch)

For more information visit www.dreamstime.com

Exhibition & Sale: Elliott Landy Prints

Norman Baugher will be presenting an Exhibition and Sale of Elliott Landy's fine art photographic prints on Thursday 19 June 2008 in New York .

The exhibition will include over 40 of Elliott's images of Bob Dylan, The Band, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, The Woodstock Festival and more. The prints are limited edition silver gelatin prints and signed by Elliott.

The exhibition will be from
6pm to 9pm, Thursday 19th June, at
The Belvedere Hotel,
The Hudson Room,
319 West 48th St.,
New York.
(between 8th and 9th Avenues).

To view Elliott Landy's photos and find out more information about him, visit www.LandyVision.com

Offside Photographers Shortlisted

Manchester united v Reading, 2007 © Matt Roberts / Offside

Two Offside photographers have been shortlisted for the Barclays Photographic Awards 2008.
Both Mark Leech and Matt Roberts have been nominated in the categories of Photographer of the Season and Shot of the Season. The winners will be announced in early July.

Exhibition: Live By the Lens Die By the Lens

Michael Caine, 1965, Bob Willoughby (b.1927), National Media Museum Collection © Bob Willoughby

Film stars are the embodiments of dreams, their glamorous publicity images carefully crafted and controlled. There are a range of photographers involved in creating the star 'image' while yet others delight in exposing the reality behind the glamour. This exhibition looks at the complex world of film publicity and the photographers whose image-making talents can make or break a star's reputation.

Place: Gallery One, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
Time: 20 June 2008 - 28 September 2008

For more info visit www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

Corbis Offers Home Video Clips

Corbis Motion is adding a new selection of humerous user-generated clips from Hollywood Licensing.
"As the trend towards real content such as home videos in advertising accelerates, we expect these will become increasingly popular."said Tammy Treglia, Co-Chairman, Hollywood Licensing, LLC.

The user-generated clips are from the Hilarious Pix® Video Collection, the collection from Hollywood Licensing, LLC for Vin Di Bona Productions.

Corbis Motion is extending its selection of premium footage with the addition of humorous user-generated clips collected by television producer, Vin Di Bona. The clips may now be previewed on the Corbis Motion website and have been prepped for easy licensing and rights clearance so that creatives can quickly and easily use the clips in their next project.

“We’re really pleased to expand our relationship with Hollywood Licensing, which has proven to be a great partner,” said Skip d’Amico, Director of Photography, Corbis Motion. “The Hilarious Pix® collection is unlike any other in that the clips are both authentically spontaneous and truly entertaining.”

www.corbismotion.com

Mary Evans - The 'New' Site

Mary Evans Picture Library, have launched a new and improved website.
Completely rewritten on a new platform by Mary Evans IT Director, Mark Braund, the website is designed to make finding pictures on the site easier and quicker. The new search engine means more accurate search results; handling metadata in such a way that descriptive information does not compromise valid search results.

Take the tour! www.maryevans.com

"Having looked at the various website options commercially available, nothing quite gave us the flexibility we wanted, so we decided to produce the website ourselves. This enabled us to accommodate suggestions for improvements made by our clients" said Braund.

"We wanted to produce a website focused on simplicity and speed. As well as one-click downloads from thumbnails and preview images, Mark has also developed a powerful range of tools that allow more in depth searching for those who need it." said Managing Director, Paul Brown.

Visitors to the home page will see that the style of the website has also changed to become more information driven. New images and collections are given prominence with a section that allows site users to keep up to date with the increasingly diverse additions to the library's holdings. Another section devoted to image themes aims to inspire clients and agents with ideas for anniversaries, features or to give contemporary topics a historical twist.

The new "collections" section also showcases the many varied areas of history covered by Mary Evans. With images being drawn from a growing army of contributors, as well as the Mary Evans core collection, this has increased considerably over the last few months to include fine art, personalities, vintage posters, events of the 20th century and the world wars. And, with the web access to this incomparable collection more streamlined, efficient and user-friendly, Mary Evans can now truly be regarded as the one stop shop for history.

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens

If you missed Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens, that was shown on Tuesday 10th June on the BBC, you can see the one hour documentary again through BBC iplayer until 17th June 2008.

Documenting the celebrity photographer on the BBC

BBC Motion Gallery and Newscom

BBC Motion Gallery Short Programmes Collection is now available to Newscom Customers.
Newscom, a provider of text and visual content from around the globe, announced the addition of video content from BBC Motion Gallery, the archive sales division of the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide.

The BBC Motion Gallery Shorts are 3-5 minutes in length, and are categorized by subject matter, including nature and wildlife, travel, history and lifestyle.

Notable shorts include Around the World, a collection of travel pieces that showcase some of the best destinations around the globe. Days that Shook the World explores some of the pivotal events of the 20th and 21st centuries. Magic of Making offers a glimpse of how things are made – the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the paper on which we write. And In From the Wild tells the stories of what happens when wild animals find their way into towns and homes.

“The BBC Motion Gallery Shorts collection offers a depth of subject matter that will appeal to audiences around the globe,” said Newscom Managing Director Bill Creighton. “Newscom has always enjoyed an outstanding reputation for offering text and photos that are fresh and relevant. We recently expanded our menu to include video offerings, and this collection from BBC Motion Gallery demonstrates our commitment to providing our customers with content in all formats that is useful, unique and compelling.”

“Our collection of motion imagery is one of the largest in the world. Partnering our Short Programmes collection with Newscom’s vast array of still images and illustrations is a natural fit for both brands,” said Clara Fon-Sing, Vice President BBC Motion Gallery, America-East Coast & Latin America.

The BBC Motion Gallery Shorts collection is available to Newscom customers in north and south America, Europe and Australasia in Windows Media and Quicktime formats and can be accessed via www.newscom.com.

NI Syndication

The most comprehensive newspaper libraries in the country are the first stop for the world's leading newspapers and magazines.
Our diverse resources include the best of the news, sport, features, fashion, celebrities and events from The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, the News Of The World. thelondonpaper and the archives of the Today newspaper, which covered the world in colour from 1986, as well as an outstanding archive of material dating from the start of the century. This unmatched service is available to clients not only in the UK but all over the world.

To gain access to the richest collection of newspaper content in the world, contact us on:
t: +44 (0) 207 711 7888

e: info@nisyndication.com

www.nisyndication.com

Splashdown - Changing World -

Splashdown Direct is a multimedia library covering the aquatic world with carefully documented material covering the most impressive species and behaviours both underwater and at the surface.
Due to heavy demand the conservation collection has been expanded and rebranded as Changing World Motion.
This environmental collection covers changes to the climate, our cultures and the entire natural world. Many of the major producers of this material in the world today are represented by Changing World and Splashdown including Greenpeace International, Save the Children, Christian Aid, Water Aid, Save Our Seas Foundation along with 80 commercial or independent contributors.

www.changingworldmotion.com

V&A Images and Corbis Reach Agreement

V&A Images and Corbis have reached agreement regarding the images taken by Cecil Beaton and Houston Rogers held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A selection of Beaton’s portraits of the royal family and Houston Rogers’ images of the performing arts can be viewed at www.vandaimages.com

Photolibary Ad Campaign a Winner

Photolibrary campaign from TBWA\TEQUILA\ Singapore goes from strength to strength.
The campaign of 3 print ads was launched in December 2007 to promote Photolibrary's royalty-free images, it ran across Asia, Australia and the US. To date the work has won awards at the following regional and international shows: The Spikes, One Show and Clio. The campaign has also made it into D&AD.

TBWA\TEQUILA\ Singapore has only had the regional Photolibrary account since late ‘07. But the work has already raised the client’s profile in the ad industry.

Photolibrary is a global stock image provider to the Advertising, Design and Publishing Community. The brief from the client was that they wanted their advertising to work harder for them.

The work soon got the ad industry talking. And since the target audience is advertising creatives themselves, another indication that the ads have struck the right chord is the awards that have recently been gathered.

This makes it the only campaign from Singapore to be recognized at all these competitions.

Glenn Parker, Chief Executive Officer of Photolibrary commented: “It’s fantastic that our work has been honoured this way. We know advertising juries aren’t easily impressed. We see this as the first of many marketing activities by TBWA\TEQUILA\ to promote our brand not just in Asia, but also globally”

The 15th World Editors Forum

Reported on the Haymarket website:
""Investigative journalism and expert analysis ... more important that ever.." that's the message that Mark Payton, digital editorial director at Haymarket Consumer Media brought back from the 15th World Editors Forum (WEF).
"...Audiences now have a greater expectation of immediacy.....18 to 34-year olds are crying out for context and depth."

Read the full article at www.haymarket.com

Visit the 15th World Editors Forum webisite.

See the Associated Press Research press release.

CEPIC in Pictures

CEPIC Committee Member, Paul Brown, has produced a photo record of the CEPIC Congress last week in Malta, below are some of his pictures.

The networking room - '120 tables for agencies in one place'

Networking at the Congress

Networking at the Congress.

Networking at the Congress.

St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta is where CEPIC listened to a choral performance.

The outdoor gala dinner.

CEPIC Congress 2009 - Dresden -

The next 2009 CEPIC Congress will take place in Dresden, Germany. This was announced by its Committee in Malta at the opening of this year’s congress, which from 4 to 8 June gathered around 750 professionals coming from more than 50 countries from all five continents of the world.

The German city was chosen to be the centre stage for the next Worldwide Picture Summit, to be held between June 3-7, 2009. As usual, online registration for the Congress and hotel bookings opens in January, with discounted fee.

Each year in June the CEPIC Congress is the meeting place for all the picture agencies (stock, press and heritage) from all around the World. After Stockholm, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Budapest, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Prague, Biarritz, Florence and Malta, it is now the turn of Dresden.

www.cepic.org

Alamy Launches "Limited Use" Scheme

Alamy, the stock photo site, is launching a new scheme offering customers the chance to buy images for limited uses for as little as 60p.
Aimed at new users like teachers or bloggers who do not normally buy pictures, the Limited Use scheme, due to go live imminently, is initially being trialled in the UK only. It will be launched worldwide in the near future.

Customers looking for photos for certain web uses such as blogs and social networking sites or for educational uses like classroom presentations can buy from Alamy for as little as 60p per picture.

So far around 3.5 million images – approximately a quarter of the 12 million pictures on the Alamy site – are available for Limited Use. The choice will increase as the Alamy’s ever growing collection continues to expand.

Contributors to Alamy have the option of making their images available for Limited Use as well as being sold conventionally, giving them the opportunity to earn additional income without cannibalising their existing sales.

Alamy CEO James West said: “This opens up our encyclopaedic collection to customers who can’t afford conventional licences. It also allows our contributors to compete in the low cost markets without undermining their existing revenue streams.”

The scheme differs from micro payment because it covers RF and RM images, the images are for sale at ‘normal’ prices elsewhere and the pricing may differ according to the project.

Find out more and see what people think at http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2008/06/05/2786.aspx

Historic Air Photos Online

The Royal Docks, London in 1968 and 1996.
© R Pike/ Skyscan (B&W) © Skyscan (colour)

Skyscan, air to ground oblique photography experts, working with aerial survey specialist, Bluesky, have launched a new concept in historic aerial photography.
Users can search online the largest collection of historical UK aerial photographs.

Visitors to www.oldaerialphotos.com can search through millions of aerial images dating back as far as the 1940s by simply entering a postcode, address or grid reference.

Detailed search results, including the age and ground coverage, of every image that matches the search criteria are displayed and the visitor can choose to purchase either a hard copy print or digital image file.

Visit www.OldAerialPhotos.com to check out what historic aerial photographs exist of your location and see how it has changed with time.

Splashdown Direct - World Ocean Day

Splashdown Direct, the multimedia library covering the aquatic world,
is helping to raise the profile of our oceans on World Ocean Day (8th June)
by offering: -

SPECIAL DISCOUNT: 50% off sales requested by Friday 13th June, 08
NEW RIGHTS READY: £40 for a picture, or clip, for a website for 1 year

Full details here

CEPIC Industry Guide: ITI

Coinciding with its 2008 Congress, held in Malta last week, CEPIC, The Coordination of European Picture Agencies Press Stock Heritage has begun distribution of the current edition of its directory, now called ITI - Image Trading International.

With around 200 pages packed with useful information and a minimum guaranteed print run of 5,000 copies, this true "Guide to the International Image Industry" includes an up-dated CEPIC Directory of Members for 2008 - 2009 and lists the Complete Delegate Companies from the recent CEPIC Congress Florence 2007.
"It is full of reference articles and attempts to foresee the future", said Alan Smith, President of CEPIC, when presenting this newly named directory to the industry gathered in Malta.

Copies of ITI will now be selectively distributed to CEPIC members and other industry players, who handle more than 80% of the world’s traded images, but also worldwide as the delegates from more than 50 countries at the CEPIC Malta Congress are given a copy.

Distribution plans addressing the picture buyers are being enhanced and copies of the ITI will be widely and selectively distributed to picture buyers across all sectors notably at the next Frankfurt Bookfair, at PICTA, at the BAPLA Picture Buyers Fair and at other similar events around the world. Copies are also being made available to the EU Commission, to copyright lawyers, to industry suppliers, accountants, distributors, software specialists, security systems suppliers, the World Intellectual Property Organisation and to the industry trade press.

FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact
Sylvie Fodor at CEPIC

www.cepic.org

The Press Photographer's Year for 2008

Thirteen prizes have been awarded, and there are 146 pictures in the final edit that the jury selected from the over 7,500 submitted for The Press Photographer's Year 2008.

Results

Slideshow

Jupiter Uses Capture Keyworder

Jupiter Images has chosen Capture Keyworder as the online tool to unite and streamline its keywording process that takes place in various centres across the US.
Capture Managing Director Abbie Enock said "We are pround and pleased to be working with Jupiter, who have very demanding standards in this area. Metada has always been central to our systems.."

Full info: Capture Keyworder

Maysles Films' Footage at Corbis

Corbis will offer clips from films, outtakes and previously unreleased footage in HD from Maysles Films.
One of America’s most recognized documentary filmmakers, the Maysles brothers are responsible for more than 50 years of film, including Gimme Shelter, Meet Marlon Brando, With Love from Truman, Salesman, and Grey Gardens.

Job: Account Executive - Lebrecht

This is an opportunity for the right person to make a difference to Lebrecht sales and profile.
We are looking for an Account Executive with at least one year's experience in a target-led role.

Full details of this job and others here: P A N Industry Jobs

Lebrecht looking for Account Executive

This is an opportunity for the right person to make a difference to Lebrecht sales and profile.
We are looking for an Account Executive with at least one year's experience in a target-led role . We have just launched a new site called www.authorpictures.co.uk which complements our music specialist site at www.lebrecht.co.uk - and our long-term strategy is to continue to develop new products.
The job requires someone to build our sales in the editorial market, to work with existing clients and to create new clients. Lebrecht is a photo library with heritage and contemporary material. Our key subject areas are Music and Literature. We are offering a competitive salary and bonus for this job.

Task and responsibilities:

- Build relationships with key customers at all levels

- Manage commercial relationship - invoices, repro rates, admin.

- Spot trends and new business opportunities

- Follow up on image downloads, price quotes etc

- Follow up on e-mail and marketing campaigns

- Keep clear records and up to date database

- Meet daily outbound call quota

-Work with everyone else in the library team to make sure service is at a very high standard

Skills required:

- experienced and confident in phone-based customer relationship management

- excellent written and verbal skills

- computer literate including Excel and Photoshop

- sales or account management experience

- initiative and ability to work independently and meet sales targets

- proven negotiating skills

- self-starter and energetic

- attention to detail

- good communications and interpersonal skills

- experience of image cataloguing and searching

- knowledge of music and literature, past and contemporary

Send CV and covering letter to:

elbie@lebrecht.co.uk

Clips & Footage on You Tube

Archive film and contemporary stock footage company, Clips & Footage, have uploaded a showreel for you on You Tube.

HERE or click the image above

New Keywording Service

Words for Images is a new professional keywording service launched by Shannon Routzahn.
Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Words for Images offers keywording and creative editing services to stock image agencies and photographers worldwide.

Specialising in providing quality captions and keywords to stock professionals, their services tackle the ever-changing requirements of the top industry image search providers at competitive pricing.

To contact them see www.wordsforimages.com

Outdoor-Archiv Goes International

Outdoor-Archiv, founded in Germany in 2006, is now represented in the Netherlands by Hollandse Hoogte and in Switzerland by Kursiv.
Specialising in rights managed outdoor-themed images, Outdoor-Archiv are planning future strategic partnerships across Europe.
See them at www.outdoor-archiv.de/en

Image Keyworder Releases 'Alamy' Upgrade

OnAsia has announced the release of an upgrade to its Windows-based Image Keyworder software.
The new version includes a customized ‘Alamy Mode’ for users submitting images to the UK-based photo agency Alamy.

“Throughout the development of Image Keyworder we have aimed to create a tool that is tailored closely to the needs of digital photographers faced with the challenge of indexing their images and submitting to online agencies,” said Yvan Cohen, Director at OnAsia.

The new functionality for Alamy contributors means that Image Keyworder is currently the only commercially available software that has been tailor designed to accommodate the specific annotation requirements of Alamy. The tool enables Alamy contributors to work on batches of images; speeding up the workflow for getting their images online.

“When Alamy announced that it was changing its metadata requirements a few months ago, we saw an opportunity to customize our Image Keyworder tool for a very specific group of users,” explained Mr Cohen. “Alamy was extremely supportive throughout this process and we now hope that their contributors will see the benefits of the customized functionality we are providing for them,” he added.

Image Keyworder comes bundled with a thesaurus comprising over 40,000 terms, including synonyms, alternate forms, spelling variations and singulars and plurals. The thesaurus is continually being enriched and updated.

“The thesaurus function means that with a single click you can add several relevant terms to an image. It’s much easier and faster than keywording manually,” explained Mr Cohen.

Having grown out of OnAsia’s experience as a professional keywording service, Image Keyworder also offers users a number of features aimed at combining comprehensive keywording with productivity. Groups of images can be processed in batches, templates can be created and saved for repeat image types and keywords can be selectively added and removed from sets of images.

Available at www.imagekeyworder.com

FAB Futures Award 2008

"Hot Sauce" by Winner of the FAB Futures Award, Teco Cipriano from Portugal,

The winners of the FAB Awards 2008 were presented at a ceremony in London on 22 May 2008.
The StockFood Group, the image agency specialising in food and beverages (FAB), sponsored a new category this year, the "FAB Futures Award" which honoured outstanding design talents. See the winning poster above.

To see the full list of nominees and winners of all the categories at the FAB Awards go to www.fabawards.com