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Today in New York Christie’s is holding its first-ever sale of contemporary photojournalism prints in conjunction with Friends of Anton The auction will showcase outstanding, signed, mostly editioned prints of work by a select group of acclaimed photographers.
In April of last year, the photojournalism community lost a very talented photographer and friend: Anton Hammerl of South Africa. Anton and three other journalists went missing on April 5, 2011 in Libya after coming under fire from Gaddafi loyalists. Libyan authorities said that the group was detained for 44 days, but it’s now clear that Anton was killed on day one. The other three journalists were eventually released and returned home.
Anton left behind three young children, and in an effort to provide ongoing support for his family, the community banded together to form Friends of Anton. The organization works to sell prints by a variety of renowned and respected photojournalists in the Friends of Anton Gallery and donates the proceeds to Anton’s family.
Friends of Anton gallery and prints
More info on the project from PhotoShelter

Los Angeles-based based celebrity photo agency FameFlynet have confirmed a network of affiliate agencies throughout Europe stepping up their aim to be a ‘dominant force’ in celebrity photo delivery.

This just in to the PAN office: BEVERLY HILLS, Ca. May 15th, 2012 – Building on the successful merger that recently brought together Fame Pictures and Flynet Pictures, two of the industry’s strongest celebrity news photo agencies, May 15th, 2012 will mark the launch of FameFlynet’s newest affiliate offices in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Norway, making the agency’s photo database of over 3 million images available in seven languages. This exciting development will broaden the international brand and global network of FameFlynet and solidify it’s place in the industry as one of the largest celebrity news agencies in the world.

“I am very excited for the opportunity to represent the incredible content of FameFlynet and bridge relationships between our partners in the US and Europe,” said Michele Marchand, managing director of FameFlynet’s French affiliate, based in Paris. “I believe we can quickly become one of the most powerful agencies in the world.”

“Representing a brand that will now be widely recognised in the most dominant territories around the world will increase relationships and revenue in an industry where reputation is critical to success and I am very happy to be a partner,” said John Churchill, owner of FameFlynet’s UK affiliate, based in London.

A Los Angeles-based company that provides candid celebrity photo and video content to the world’s premier entertainment print, online and broadcast media outlets, FameFlynet boasts a global network of hundreds of contributing photographers and journalists. Their huge photo database is updated daily with celebrity content from all corners of the globe- adding over 25,000 images since the first of the year. Where and when celebrity news happens – anywhere in the world – FameFlynet are there to cover it.

“Our goal is to be a dominant force in the Global market,” said Boris Nizon, president of FameFlynet’s American operation. “And we believe that working together with our European affiliates will help us accomplish that goal. We’ve seen what FameFlynet can do in the USA market now we are ready to make our mark on the rest of the World.” FameFlynet is proud to announce their expansion into Europe but the plan does not stop there. ‘We are already looking at other territories to open offices in – this is just the beginning.”
Find them here: www.fameflynet.biz

May 15
The PAN shout-out resulted in the researcher getting the image request below (May 9) and the images licensed!
New request from the same company: We are also searching for newspaper articles (probably tabloid) from the period in which Mark Thatcher went missing (12th-15th Jan 1982) along the following lines:

1.) Any articles with Margaret Thatcher stating she is willing to spend money / as much as necessary to find her son
2.) Any articles reporting Mark’s discovery WITH a photo of him in the article. (date: 15th June 1982)

We are also looking for any photos or newspaper/magazine articles about Cecilia Sarkozy who went to the airport in May (either 20th or 15th May)
to meet Richard Attias. Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly drove there in an official car (he was Interior Minister at the time) with sirens blaring.

email for the researchers details will@photoarchivenews.com

May 9
This in from a picture researcher..
Dear Will,

I work for a Japanese TV company based in London. I am currently working on a relatively new production on the Thatcher family. For this, I am looking for a photo of Margaret Thatcher looking distraught or devastated (possibly weeping) when Mark went missing in the rally on Sahara desert in 1982 January.

Do you hold any photos of this to license?

email for the researchers details will@photoarchivenews.com

Shutterstock Founder & CEO Jon Oringer (he started the company with his own digital photos in 2003) announced on the photo agency blog yesterday : ‘I am pleased to share that today we filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a formal document that describes our business and our plans to pursue an initial public offering, or IPO.’
The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined.
The bookrunning managers of the proposed transaction will be Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank Securities and Jefferies. RBC Capital Markets, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel and William Blair will be acting as co-managers.
When available, a copy of the prospectus for the above offering can be obtained from Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Prospectus Department, at 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014, and by phone at (866) 718-1649 or by emailing prospectus@morganstanley.com.

Shutterstock are attending the CEPIC Congress London

Media Mode in Australia are online with a new website at www.media-mode.com
Co founder Brendan Beirne told PhotoArchiveNews.com over the weekend: “We started Media Mode a couple of years ago, I worked for agencies and newspapers in London for around 25 years and was the UK Nikon Royal photographer of the year back in the 90′s. Sarah-Jo, my business partner at Media Mode, has 10 years experience selling media and pictures in Sydney. In an effort to expand quickly we are offering the best available percentages for individual and agency contributors and the fastest payment turnaround.”
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ImageBrief, the photo-on-demand company have expanded their offices to the UK and the U.S. Launched a year ago in Australia by stock photo agency owner Meg and her partner Simon ImageBrief has been a hit for creatives wanting to find a unique shot for a client’s campaign. The idea is not new but the system they have built is and it works like a dream. As a creative you register, upload a brief (including a ‘like this’ image example) and a price budget for the image use. That then gets fired out to the Image Brief hand chosen registered pro photographers. The photographers then digest the brief and return a photo to match either from their library or a freshly shot image…. simple!
Try it here or meet them at NYPH’12

Corbis are offering a couple of new stock photo collections in thier premium commercial offering. The collections, which feature over 70,000 new images include… read on at AboutTheImage.com

Horst Faas holding the UK Picture Editors’ Guild Chairman’s Award for his contribution to the industry awarded in 2011. Photo: Piced.net

Horst Faas the photojournalist and long time photo operations chief at Associated Press has died aged 79. He was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
Associated Press announcement: Horst Faas, AP combat photographer, dies at 79

Remembering Horst.
Horst was an early supporter of Photo Archive News and a major inspiration behind the Press Photo History Project. He called me from his office (at the old central London AP building, Norwich Street) in the summer of 2003. Photo Archive News had been online for a couple of years by then and I was at my day job with a photo press agency nearby… I was standing in his office 20 minutes later.
We then met almost weekly at his office or over lunch where we would talk about the industry and he would suggest small changes to the site, new features and news articles. He steered me into his vast network of colleagues, many of whom have provided the deep knowledge required for the PAN and PPHP websites. His interest in the sites ran in line with a project he had been working on to record the history of the wired photo and wire photo transmission. He handed me a wad of A4 sheets one day and said ‘this is where I have got to’. I believe he intended to write a book on the subject but was already busy with various other projects. One of these was his involvement with the IMMF, Indochina Media Memorial Foundation, which provides practical workshops for aspiring Vietnamese photojournalists. He introduced me to his fellow London based IMMF trustees Sheila Brown and Peter Rimmer who were helping Horst put together an auction of photographs to raise funds for the next workshop – here is part of the catalogue from that auction – I became involved with the auction and joined Horst, Sheila and Peter as a trustee of the IMMF shortly afterwards.
We stayed in touch, mostly via the phone or Skype. On every call we would plan at length another feature for one of the sites, Horst would have to then break off the conversation at the arrival of a carer or his laptop getting too hot on his chest…
Horst lived and breathed photojournalism and always had time, encouragement and enthusiasm for anyone passionate about the subject. I will miss him.
Will Carleton.

Horst Faas 28 April 1933 – 10 May 2012 R.I.P.

from the Panos Pictures blog:
‘Panos photographer Robin Hammond has been working on a long-term project about Zimbabwe for the past 2 years. Around 21 April 2012, he was arrested in the South of the country while photographing near the border with South Africa.
After over two weeks in a jail in Beitbridge he was moved to the capital Harare on Saturday 5 May. After intercession from his lawyers and the New Zealand authorities, Robin being a NZ citizen, he was finally released after 3 weeks in detention on 10 May 2012.
He is being flown to London and from there on to Paris. All of us at Panos Pictures and his family and girlfriend Aude Barbera are delighted that he is free and safe.’
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