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Independent Shares Offices With Daily Mail

UK 28th November 2008 - TimesOnline reports:

Independent moves in with Daily Mail

The Independent is to move in with the Daily Mail in West London next year, in a scheme designed to help safeguard the future of the struggling upmarket title by saving it about £2 million a year.

Read the full report here.

Robert Harding World Imagery

Out of this World…
Robert Harding World Imagery offers some of the most arresting and engaging photos you’ll ever see.

Discover our wonderfully vivid planet and its secret lives, captured and interpreted by the finest photographers of our time.

Global peoples, earthscapes, seascapes, world wildlife, journeys, traditions, cuisine and much more.

No one offers you the world in greater depth or richer diversity. So, if you want to open minds, touch hearts and stop your audience in its tracks…

Get “out of this world”…

Get into www.robertharding.com
+44 (0) 20 7478 4000

Lightbox Photo Provides Solution For DRR Users

In the light of the unfortunate demise of Digital Railroad, Canadian Based Lightbox Photo™
is stepping forward to offer it’s photo gallery software as the alternative solution - with a 15% discount on all purchases made during November and December. Photographers can create dynamic e-commerce enabled image websites empowering them to present their work how they want, where they want and when they want.

Lightbox Photo™ allows users to create their own stock photo libraries or online proofing systems, meaning no more commissions to third party providers. The cross platform, server side software combines PHP and MySQL to produce an inherently fast and highly scalable solution. It is a feature packed online gallery maker and digital asset manager, that gives users the ability to auto generate thumbnails, watermark images, create private galleries, view slideshows, offer a variety of products including instant downloads and much more.

Existing user and world renowned nature photographer Frans Lanting of Santa Cruz, California (www.franslanting.com) comments, " Lightbox Photo™ has played a key role in making our collection accessible to a worldwide audience. We've had great support from Lightbox when we've needed to upgrade or add our own customization to the standard interface."

“Lightbox Photo™ has been a trusted supplier to the photographic industry for over five years,” comments Adrian Ellis co-founder of Lightbox Photo™. “Our solution has a raft of features specifically aimed at photographers wanting to display and sell their work online. This is where our software plays a key role; allowing the photographer greater flexibility in the products and services that they offer, while maintaining full control over their images. It also gives them direct access to the customer who may need additional image research or want to commission a photo shoot.”

Lightbox Photo™ is available as a Standard, Professional or Enterprise Version priced from $399 (approx. £200). Any Digital Railroad customer making a purchase during November will receive a 15% discount. For further information please visit www.lightboxphoto.com or email sales@lightboxphoto.com.

Vintage Motor Signs Available Now At Mary Evans

Renowned tennis photographer Michael Cole has not only captured some of the most dramatic moments of the world’s professional tennis tournaments over the last 30 years, but also owns an enviable collection of classic automobilia. Mary Evans are now representing two new sets of pictures, from Michael Cole and from his cousin Ros Fraser.

View the first group here

Keywording Tip Of The Day.....

'Harmonise Captions With Keywords'
If the caption and keywords fields are both being searched, try to stop the caption sabotaging the keywords by adding in words which mislead researchers, such as mentions of people not visible in the picture.

For more tips and a full keywording service visit Keedup

Lebrecht Represents Maurice Seymour

Music & arts picture library Lebrecht is now representing the Maurice Seymour Estate.
Photographer Maurice Seymour worked from the mid-1930s until the 1970s photographing performers who worked in the nightclubs and theatres of Chicago.

Seymour was born in Russia and together with his brother was apprenticed to a photographer. Later on the two brothers set up in business together. When the ballet Russe de Monte Carlo came to Chicago he was chosen to photograph them and these photos are well known worldwide for their distinctive style and lighting. This was his first ballet assignment and it remained the focus of much of his work. When you look at these examples the images will be immediately familiar to you, although you may not have always read the name of the photographer. Search on our website for more examples of his unique work which is all in copyright.

Wanderlust Magazine: 100th Issue

Wanderlust's 100th Issue

Wanderlust magazine celebrates its 100th issue and 15th anniversary with the publication of the December issue featuring 100 of travel's best secrets.

The magazine is marking the occasion with a feature on 100 of travel’s best secrets, along with features from the likes of Bill Bryson and comic writer and actor Michael Palin.

Haymarket Consumer Media, which acquired a stake in Wanderlust earlier this month, joins two other private investors, John Brown and Mark Ellingham in backing the magazine. However, the majority of the business will still be owned by Lyn Hughes, the editor-in-chief and publisher, who founded the company with her late husband Paul Morrison in 1993.

Image Trends In A Recession Economy

Will the recession affect which images companies choose to represent their organisations?

Dwyer O’Neill, CEO of Reflex Stock believes the answer is yes and is responding by compiling a new series of images that reflects an emerging trend. “In recent weeks, we have seen a reduction in requests for youth based stock photography and an increasing demand for images depicting maturity, wisdom and self-reliance."

“As the recession deepens, my feeling is that businesses, particularly those within the financial sector, will continue to look for images that illustrate maturity, level headedness and wisdom to represent their organisation"

Joanne Tunwell, Head of Picture Research, Reflex Stock adds: "Organisations need to reflect the developments in the changed economy and are looking for new imagery to help them do this. Our latest image collections brought together to satisfy this demand....."

Canon Camera Museum

canon.com/camera-museum

Bletchley Park Print Store Online

The Arrival of Captain Ridley's Shooting Party at Bletchley park

Bletchley Park has created a print store to sell limited edition commemorative fine art prints. Bletchley Park was the home of the World War 2 Codebreakers and the prints have been signed by five of the surviving Codebreakers.

As part of its fund raising initiative to regenerate Bletchley Park, the Bletchley Park Trust is making available a collection of limited edition, fine art prints signed by five of the original World War 2 Codebreakers.

To view click here

These attractive framed prints are being issued to commemorate the phenomenal technological achievements of the Codebreakers that both helped shorten the war by two years and laid the foundations for modern day computing. The proceeds from the sale of these prints will make a direct and vital contribution to the continuing work to restore and regenerate Bletchley Park.

Some pictures have previously been unavailable to the public; these historic pictures of Bletchley Park’s wartime codebreaking work are made even rarer by the fact that cameras were not allowed on-site during the war. They are being reproduced in partnership with CreateOnline, the Bletchley Park based, fine art prints company that looks after the online printing for National Geographic, Punch Magazine Library and many other galleries.

Signed by five of the surviving Codebreakers: John Herivel, Keith Batey, Mavis Batey, Oliver Lawn and Sheila Lawn, the strictly limited edition, framed prints are supplied with a certificate of authenticity from the Bletchley Park Trust and are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Simon Greenish, Chief Executive of the Bletchley Park Trust welcomed the initiative, saying: “These prints offer an opportunity to buy a unique piece of history and will help to ensure that the legacy of the wartime Codebreakers at the home of computing is not forgotten. As well as being an exclusive and attractive historic portrait of the work conducted here in WWII, I hope they will prove to be a valuable investment for their owners”.

A spokesman for CreateOnline said: ”We are delighted and honoured to be working on this project to commemorate the work of the Codebreakers and helping to support Bletchley Park”.

Wallpaper Magazine Appoints Website Publisher

Wallpaper*, the international design, fashion and lifestyle magazine, has appointed Ben Giles to the new role of publisher of www.wallpaper.com.
Ben will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the website, working with both the editorial and advertising teams. He will also continue in his role as international sales director.

Phillips Collection Joins 'Commons'

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog announces:
Phillips photographic collection joins the Commons
'This great image titled ‘Two women boxing’ taken c. 1910 was added in this week’s batch to the Commons project on Flickr. It comes from the Phillips photographic collection that the museum has acquired. This collection of approximately 200 glass plate negatives appears to have be made by a photographic studio from around 1890 through to 1920.'

www.powerhousemuseum.com

New Website: Car And Bike Photo Library

The Car and Bike Photo Library have launched their new improved site.
The library has expanded in recent years to syndicate the work of top motoring photographers worldwide, yet continues to offer a personalised service.

PICTA 2009 - Hamburg

PICTA, The German Image Agency Fair, will be taking place in Germany's leading media city, Hamburg 26 - 29 March 2009.

Don't hesitate! Stands will be allocated as soon the registration is received. For all PICTA booking details go to www.luckwaldtmessen.de

Moodboard Launches Blog

Stock image provider Moodboard have launched a blog, called the factory, to offer photographers and creative professionals a platform to share ideas on anything and everything to do with images.

Alinari Acquires Team Archive

Italian based photo library, Alinari Archives, have bought Team Archive a photo agency covering various topics ranging from the sixties to the present day. 5,000 Team Archive images are already on-line.

Canon: Digital Market May Shrink Next Year

Reuters reports from Tokyo that Canon President, Tsuneji Uchida, said the global digital camera market may shrink next year.

..Canon last month cut its 2008 compact digital camera sales forecast by 6 percent to 23.5 million units, though that would still mark a year-on-year jump of 10 percent. It stood by its estimate for SLR sales to rise 38 percent to 4.4 million units...
Read the article here.

Daily Mirror Archive Now Available Online

UKPressonline can now give you access to the Mirror archive from 1903 to 1980.

This replaces the Arcitext archive of the Daily Mirror. Arcitext users can opt to move their accounts to UKPressonline.

Edition by edition, page by page, all free-text-searchable and available for instant download and printout for private use or research.

Once online, you can have access to the Mirror 1903-1980, along with already-available Daily Express, Daily Star, Sunday Express and Star on Sunday package.

For more details visit UKPressonline.

Travel Library Adds Steam Railway Images

The Travel Library/Don Bishop

The Travel Library, with over 34,000 existing images on-line, have added a set of pictures by railway photographer Don Bishop showing many of the preserved steam railways throughout the UK.

Many of the images show the spectacular sight and capture the power of magnificent locomotives from a bygone era steaming through the British landscape. The images will appeal to Calendar, Greeting Cards clients & publishing companies catering to the railway enthusiast fraternity.

TTL Managing Director Philip Enticknap said “I admit to being a bit of a steam buff myself and had been looking for a photographer to supply us with images to represent the UK tourist railway scene for some time. When I saw Don Bishops images in a specialist steam magazine I knew that his work was right for us and approached him to contribute to the library.”

This sector of the leisure industry attracts over 6 million visitors a year to over one hundred heritage railway sites nationwide and the images are being well received by TTL’s UK travel industry clients.

The collection will complement the library’s growing collection of over 8000 British images, featuring the work of well known UK landscape photographers including David Noton, Adam Burton, Rod Edwards, and Tom Mackie who together provide a wide portfolio of scenic landscapes, dramatic coastlines, cities and villages.

TTL also represents the work of veteran and much respected photographer Andy Williams who has spent a lifetime’s career capturing and constantly updating his extensive photographic coverage of the UK. His images show timeless landscapes from the Scottish Highlands to sleepy Cornish fishing villages, castles, cottages, pubs, gardens, cathedrals, churches, architecture and famous landmarks as well as many subjects that make up the British scene.

Philip Enticknap added “At TTL we are perceived as being a supplier of exotic location images from around the world, which is perfectly true. However the UK tourist industry also requires stunning imagery when it comes to promoting itself. With our specialist knowledge of the travel marketplace we are able to apply our expertise to both the home and overseas markets.”

As the effects of the downturn in the economy may deter overseas travel, UK tourism is likely to increase and The Travel Library is well prepared to meet the demand for any images of Britain that this may bring.

Direct Lighting Open Evening

Direct, the lighting and camera rental company, will be holding an Open Evening for Directors of Photography, gaffers and photographers to showcase the latest Canon EO S 5D Mk II and lighting products from Cirro Lite and Direct.

17th December, 4pm - 9pm, London SE1

Representatives from Canon, Cirro Lite and Direct Lighting will be present to answer any technical questions.

Picturehouse NY A Success

Over 800 buyers attended the annual Picturehouse event held on 29 October this year in New York.

Press Release:

The annual Picturehouse event, held this year at the Altman Building on October 29, was a huge success. A record number of buyer attendees, over 800, visited with one hundred plus photo agencies and suppliers from around the globe.

Representing an almost 25% increase in attendance over 2007, the clients were a virtual cross section of the industry. 32% were advertising and graphic design, 19% magazines and newspapers, 17% book publishing and 32% from new media, travel and other sectors.

Said a first time attendee from McCann Erickson, “everyone was so friendly and helpful. I enjoyed making that personal connection with people I work with over the phone and through email. I had a great time, met a lot of new people and made some great connections.”

Deborah Free, President of Picturehouse Marketing, says this year’s audience growth shows that the event is gaining momentum within the photo industry and creative community. In its eighth year, Picturehouse is the only forum bringing together photo suppliers with buyers, exclusively.

Picturehouse NY 2009 is slated for October 14, 2009 and will take place at a new venue, the Metropolitan Pavilion. Picturehouse Chicago, the next scheduled event, will be at the River East Art Center on April 16, 2009.

New Website: NordicPhotos

© Mads Greve/NordicPhotos

NordicPhotos, one of the leading image agencies in the Nordic countries, has launched a new web site. With new features and extended services designed by Igor Kazakoff, Arnaldur Gauti Johnson, Managing Director hopes the new website will make it easier for all their different client groups to find the images they want.

Press Release:

Image agency NordicPhotos with offices in Stockholm, Reykjavik and Oslo is renewing itself this winter. New web site with a whole new look, containing a lot of extended services, among other things 24 hour download accounts and assignment services. All incorporated in the new graphic profile designed by the multiple awarded graphic designer Igor Kazakoff.

Igor Kazakoff is also designing the company's DM advertising and print.

Through series of acquisitions NordicPhotos has established itself as one of the leading image agencies in the Nordic countries. With the latest acquisition of the Norwegian agency GV-Press based in Oslo, the Norwegian market is opening up. GV-Press office is the NordicPhotos Norwegian branch. The service for the Danish clients has also been improved with a recently established cooperation with a call centre based in Copenhagen. NordicPhotos new web site is now available in five languages; English, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Danish.

The new web site is divided in seven different sections to serve each client group better. The different sections are:
· Creative+ - A gallery with 15.000 hand selected images with artistic values. This is for the creative's that do not want to search through multiple pages of results; this will be the boutique within NordicPhotos.
· Rights Managed - The familiar way of using the right images for a fair price, this section includes 8 different Nordic collections along with 30 foreign collections.
· Editorial - for those looking for specific, unique images, close to 2 million images, anything from famous people, celebrities, art and historical events. Many new collections added such as Mary Evans and Album.
· Features - new for the publishers - stories and images sold together.
· Royalty Free - Introducing a number of new brands including Fancy, Moodboard and many more and of course our very own Simply North, a Nordic RF collection.
· CD's - categorized collections of RF images on CD's - Here you can easily search, choose and buy thousands of CD's and VCD's.
· Assignments - Our new Photographer agency Nordic Photographers. We do any photoshoot requested.

"We wanted to create a site that all different clients groups like. Some designers don't like getting hundreds of pages of results so we created Creative+ a section where we have edited the results for them and then you have editors and book publishers who are looking for all sorts of topics and want variety, for them we will have millions of images to choose from and many different ways also for them to filter their searches. Simplicity and nice design is also on of the key factors in making this site, we really hope our clients will like it."
- Arnaldur Gauti Johnson, Managing Director of NordicPhotos

CEPIC 2009 - Hotel Bookings Open

Hotel booking for the CEPIC Congress Dresden 2009 is now open. 664 rooms in hotels located centrally and close to the CEPIC Congress Centre have been reserved.

To book hotels online, go the the Congress Registration Website.

Alaska Stock Distributed By Hemis

Alaska Stock Images, Alaska's largest stock photo agency, will be represented in the French market by the Hemis agency based in Paris.

Press Release:

Anchorage, AK. - Alaska Stock Images, Alaska’s largest stock photo agency, announced their new distribution partnership with Hemis of France. Globally represented in 29 countries, the Alaska Stock collection provides an excellent source of Alaskan photos from the Great Land to customers of the Hemis image library.

In the spirit of moving forward with plans to broaden Alaska Stock’s world-wide representation, Jeff Schultz, owner and founder, remarked, “I have heard nothing but good things about Bertrand Gardel and the Hemis agency and am excited to see that they will offer our Alaska pictures in the French market."

Hemis is located in Paris, France, and is recognized for its outstanding travel pictures for editorial and advertising use. It remains one of the last independent stock and features agencies, and with the largest collection of stock photos of France, it is also the quintessential photography agency for travel imagery in France and throughout the world. Hemis currently holds over 130,000 web-based images, Rights-Managed and Royalty Free. Hemis CEO, Bertrand Gardel noted, "Hemis, the leading travel imagery in France have found in Alaska Stock, the top quality images and professionalism that is in accordance with our vision of tomorrow’s photography. With no doubt, this collection will have a great success in France."

About Alaska Stock Images: Alaska Stock Images is a specialty photo agency with BIG-time services and world-class photos. With an offering of over 400,000 Rights-Managed and Royalty-Free images of Alaska tourism photos, summer and winter lifestyles, outdoor recreation, adventure, historic, wildlife, global warming and climate change, majestic landscapes, and photos from Antarctica and Canada. Their trusted website, www.alaskastock.com, has all the features of the "big boys" sites --- Fully searchable collection, complete lightbox functionality, price and download instantly, comp-use, thesaurus tool plus much more. And the service is second to none. You'll always talk with a live, intelligent person who is actually in Alaska and can handle your request immediately. They've been providing national clients with dependable top-quality imagery for over 19 years.

Rare Florence Nightingale Photo Exceeds Top Estimate

A section of the Florence Nightingale Photograph

A rare photograph of Florence Nightingale has been sold by UK auctioneers Dreweatts for £5,500, 10 times its top estimate.

See the full report on Newbury Today.

Steve: The Museum Social Tagging Project

'Steve is a collaboration of museum professionals and others who believe that social tagging may provide profound new ways to describe and access museum collections and encourage visitor enagement with museum objects'.

www.steve.museum

Paparazzi Restrictions IN L.A.

The Los Angeles Times blog, L.A. Now reports:
L.A. moves to crack down on paparazzi

Celebrities could drop their children off at school and visit their doctors without fear of being accosted by paparazzi under a proposal introduced by a city councilman this week.

Full article here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com

HarperCollins And WSJ Start Publishing Project

HarperCollins Publishers and The Wall Street Journal have announced the formation of a three-year publishing partnership to develop books written by the Journal’s expert editors and reporters across a variety of topics for a wide range of readers.

Both HarperCollins and Dow Jones & Company, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, are owned by News Corp.

The program will be overseen by Steve Ross, group president of the Collins Group, a division of Harper Collins, and Alan Murray, deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, in conjunction with the Publishers and editorial teams from the Collins, Collins Business, Collins Living and Collins Design imprints.

“This is an example of the many natural synergies that can be developed between Dow Jones and other News Corp properties,” said Les Hinton, chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Company and publisher of The Wall Street Journal. “We look forward to a fruitful relationship with our corporate brethren at HarperCollins.”

“Readers seeking authoritative and timely business-related content know that The Wall Street Journal is the pre-eminent consumer brand in the world,” said Brian Murray, president and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers. “Through this partnership we will build a branded list of guides from the editors of the Journal and enduring narratives from The Wall Street Journal reporters that will stand the test of time.”

“The Journal has long been the authority in business news and has been successfully expanding that position in lifestyle and culture categories. They are a perfect match for the Collins Group,” said Ross. “We look forward to developing must read books authored by some of the most respected names in journalism.”

“We needed to find the world’s pre-eminent publisher and, fortunately, that publisher was very close to home," said Robert Thomson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and editor-in-chief of Dow Jones. “The demand for intelligent and insightful books on business and beyond has rarely been greater, and there is no doubt that the journalists at the Journal and Dow Jones generally are far more intelligent and measurably more insightful than journalists at other newspapers.”

The first guidebook to be published under the agreement will be “The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street As We Know It: What You Need to Know About the Greatest Financial Crisis of Our Time – And How to Survive It,” by Dave Kansas. The book is a definitive guide for Main Street readers who want to make sense of what’s happening on Wall Street. It will be published by Collins Business in January 2009. Additionally, Collins Business will publish “The Wall Street Journal Guide to Management” in early 2010.

Google Provide 'LIFE' Photo Archive Search

The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen.
These are just some of the things you'll see in Google Image Search now.
We're excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s.

View the collection here: http://images.google.com/hosted/life

RACER Magazine Celebrates 200 Issues

Haymarket’s US-based motorsports monthly, RACER, celebrates its 200th issue with an examination of racing’s past, present and future.

Press Release:

For its ‘bicentenary’, the December issue includes a special ‘200’ section. In it, RACER’s respected team of writers and editors celebrates and analyses its first 16 years. They recall their favourite moments, look at how racing has evolved since the first issue in April, 1992, and predict what they want to see happen in motorsport’s future.

Continuing the theme, the 200th RACER also looks at how the classic Michael Andretti and Bobby Rahal battles in Indy car racing have led to their sons Marco and Graham slugging it out in the same series, and asks whether 200mph – once the definitive marker for being seriously fast – is still such a big deal.

“It’s been a privilege to be working on the magazine for such an auspicious occasion,” said RACER editor David Malsher. “I know we have the best team of motorsport writers in North America, and our photographers are second-to-none, so RACER is a pleasure to put together every month. But this particular issue was even more fun, especially compiling the feature on the 100 things we want to see in motorsport’s future, which has triggered a load of response from our readers.”

President and publisher of Haymarket Network USA, Ian Havard, said that the RACER team has been “pleased and also very humbled by the goodwill, warmth and praise” coming from some of racing’s big names. “It’s hugely gratifying to know we mean so much to these guys,” he said, adding that “I look forward to the next 200” has been the common sentiment among congratulations messages from racing names including Mario Andretti, Jeff Gordon and John Force.

“That’s echoed throughout these offices and among all our contributing writers as we continue to make RACER the essential motorsports monthly,” said Havard.

RACER, which is published from Haymarket’s Irvine, California, office, covers the spectrum of international auto racing from an American perspective, making it unique in Haymarket’s extensive motorsport portfolio.

plainpicture - Mini Magazines

plainpicture presents 5 pocket sized journals, designed in typical magazine format.

'The issues imitate the graphic style of editorial titles and cover some common
themes which include dogs, northern travel, food, psychology and camping.
The plainpicture mini-magazines are created as style guides containing a strong
image selection. This shows the variety of subjects and concepts within the
collection as well as presenting different styles of photography'.

All issues of the mini-magazines can be ordered on the
plainpicture website for free: www.plainpicture.com/magazines

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

Now Buying - Christie's Photographs Sale

Christie’s London Photographs Sale in November 2008
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Christie’s King Street

Full detail and sale highlights here: www.christies.com/presscenter/pdfk

Now Showing - World Press Photo Exhibition

© World Press Photo

World Press Photo 2008 Exhibition (LONDON) is at Level 2 Foyer, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre from 13 November to 8 December.
FREE
Since 1955, World Press Photo has invited press photographers of the world to participate in the premier annual international competition in press photography.

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/worldpress

www.worldpressphoto.org

Photo Agency X17 Capture 'Lohan' Flour Bomb Attack

Click to view stills & video

x17online quotes:
'So, in case you haven't heard, Lindsay Lohan was attacked with a bag of flour by a PETA anti-fur activist in Paris on Friday'...

'And boy, did she get covered in the stuff!'

Alamy Provide 'ReadyImages' To CCC

Alamy, has teamed up with rights licensing experts Copyright Clearance Center to help create a revolutionary new way for corporations to access pre-licensed images for internal business uses.
ReadyImages is a corporate-wide subscription service that offers a simple search, select and download process. Alamy has provided more than 1.3 million keyword-searchable professional images to the service.

With no logins, checkouts or credits to track, all employees can add visual impact to presentations to colleagues, customers and prospects without the risk of using unauthorized photos taken from the web or other sources.

Subscribers to the ReadyImages service pay an annual subscription fee to use all the images they need for a range of internal communications needs, such as training and HR materials, company newsletters, emails and intranet postings, as well as in client, partner and trade show presentations.

“ReadyImages is an innovative new service that helps customers find and use the quality licensed images they desire,” said Bill Burger, Vice President of Marketing at CCC. “The breadth and depth of Alamy’s image catalogue made them a logical partner as we offer a cost-effective way to make sure that everyone in the organization has access to high quality, licensed professional images.”
ReadyImages takes the hassle out of using images for business purposes. Subscribers no longer have to waste time searching for quality images, getting permission, navigating shopping carts and completing complicated check-out processes. They can also be sure that the images they are using are properly licensed and available in a variety of sizes and resolutions for a single annual fee.
Alamy CEO James West said: “CCC has used its experience in licensing all types of content to solve a big headache for large corporations. It has recognized that businesses want a safe way of sourcing pictures online for internal communications. We are excited to have the opportunity of combining CCC’s expertise with our database of high-quality images.”

www.alamy.com

PGA Staff Photographers Select Best 2008 Images

PGATOUR.COM asked Stan Badz, Chris Condon and Caryn Levy, the TOUR's three staff photographers, to select their favorite 10 images they snapped in 2008 and explain why they picked each one. Learn more about Badz and the images that he chose.

Stan Badz is a Photo Official/Senior Staff Photographer who has been with the PGA TOUR for over 15 years. He travels to over 20 events per year covering all three Tours. His work has been published in all of the major golf publications.
www.pgatour.com

Nature Picture Library

A specialist nature and travel photo agency based in England and formerly part of the BBC Natural History Unit.

Our collection is especially strong in animal portraits and behaviour but also includes landscapes and travel, pets, plants, tribal peoples, and images illustrating environmental issues. We have more than 140,000 images searchable online with hi res and comp images available for immediate download, as well as graduate staff to assist in your search.

We have recently taken over the specialist marine image library Bluegreen Pictures, www.bluegreenpictures.com. This collection specialises in boats of all types, coastal landscapes, watersports, marine wildlife, travel destinations and waves.

Web : NaturePL.com
E-Mail : admin@naturepl.com.
Phone : +44 (0) 117 9114675
Fax : +44 (0) 117 927 2459

BBC Motion Gallery - New Sports Sales Manager

BBC Worldwide has appointed Matt Wills as its new Sports Sales Manager for BBC Motion Gallery, the company’s international clip licensing arm.
Wills will be responsible for managing the promotion and sales of the BBC Motion Gallery Sports Catalogue across the Asia-Pacific, Americas, UK & Ireland, Benelux, Scandinavia and the Northern Med regions.

Wills joined BBC Worldwide as Senior Sales Executive for Sport in Sales and Distribution in October 2007. Prior to this role he was Head of Archive and Acquisitions at Octagon CSI, managing key archive clients including the Football Association (FA) and the ECB (English Cricket Board). Wills brings over six years of sports archive industry experience to the team and will leverage this to drive sales with sports buyers, federations and event organisers as well as exploiting new broadcast opportunities in the free and pay-TV arenas.

PLUS Adopted By Major Publishers

Three major publishers have called for the adoption of the PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) standards by picture archives, photographersand all other image suppliers.

Representatives of McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,and Pearson each announced that they will adopt the PLUS Picture Licensing Glossarydefinitions in their contracts, and that they encourage image suppliers to begin embedding PLUS license metadata in all images within one year. The publishers voiced their support at the “PLUS Takes Root in the Publishing Industry” event hosted by the Picture Archive Councilof America, during their International Conference in New York City.

The PLUS standards were developed by the PLUS Coalition, an international non-profit organization dedicated to simplifying and facilitating the communication and management of image rights. In the PLUS Coalition, publishers, picture archives,photographers, illustrators, designers, advertising agencies, museums, libraries, artist representatives, educational institutions, manufacturers and their associations collaboratetoward that shared goal. The PLUS standards allow rights and attribution information totravel within image files in a machine-readable format that provides instant access and universal understanding.

“We are very pleased that these major publishers – the largest image licensees in the industry – are aligned in their support of the PLUS standards,” said Maria Kessler, President of the Picture Archive Association of America.

Bonnie Beacher, Senior Director of Contracts, Copyrights and Permissions at McGraw-HillEducation, said “The PLUS standards benefit publishers and their suppliers by simplifying and clarifying the process of licensing and managing images. We are in the process of implementing PLUS standards, and we would find it very useful for our image suppliers to adopt PLUS standards as well.”

Jeff Sedlik, President & CEO of the PLUS Coalition, said “The PLUS standards will allowpublishers to leverage embedded license metadata to increase automation and more efficiently manage images in their digital asset management systems.”

The PLUS Coalition includes participants in thirty countries, and receives significant support from Leadership Circle members Adobe, Adbase, Adobe, Pentagram, Jupiterimages,Digimarc, Belay Development, Getty Images, IDEAlliance, ImageSpan, Photo District News,IPTC, NAPP, PACA, StockPhotoFinder, Swan Turton, WongDoody and Capture.

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LAT And BPI Provide F1 Victory Photos

Lewis Hamilton’s recent World Championship success made Formula One front page news – and it was Haymarket photo agencies LAT and Back Page Images (BPI) that provided the photograph.

Steven Tee was in the McLaren racing team’s garage to capture those tense final laps and the moment that Lewis celebrated with girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger.

The situation was also tailor made for BPI, Haymarket’s all-sport photo agency, who promptly utilised their relationship with all the national newspapers to distribute the images that were published on the front page of the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Independent and Daily Mail – just four of 30 separate shows for the photos that day.

Earlier this year, sports specialist BPI joined LAT Photographic, Haymarket Media Group’s motorsport and motoring picture agency and archive, to create a photographic service covering all major international sports.

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Paris Photo: 13-16 November 2008

© Rinko Kawauchi - Untitled, from the series of "UTATANE", 2001 - Courtesy of the artist and FOIL GALLERY,Tokyo

Paris Photo, one of the top photography fairs, starts later this week in Paris. This year the event boasts about 100 galleries and publishers from around the world.

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Exhibition: DestinAsian

© Saibal Das/ Drik India/Majority World

6 - 16 November 2008
Viewfinder Photography Gallery
London, SE10 8RS

Photographers from Majority World are contributing to an exhibition illustrating journeys to and from the Indian subcontinent, themes of migration and identity, or the evolution of Asian culture from the traditional to the multicultural.