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Verbatim is the name for the new photo agency being launched by Getty Images to replace the photo assignments part of the Getty Reportage department. A spokesperson at Getty Images told PhotoArchiveNews.com this afternoon: Getty Images is launching a new subsidiary and venture dedicated to commercial assignments, Verbatim, in October…
Munich based photo library StockFood will now be selling London based Science Photo Library content directly to the German market. SPL say: ‘A dedicated team of scientific experts and specialized translators have spent thousands of hours to create science-photo.de, making it the best German resource for professional picture buyers in…
French photojournalist – and one of Magnum Photos earliest contributors – Marc Riboud has died. My good friend Jinx Rodger the wife of Magnum Photos founder member George Rodger sent me this note remembering Marc: “Dear Will —- a little tribute to a longtime friend, from Jinx. Marc had been…
This week Ross MacRae and his team at BikiniLists HQ celebrated 15 years of collating and providing marketing lists for photographers and photo libraries. Ross told us: “I still have the same guitar and shirt – but the business has grown from a list of 2,000 London art buyers in…
SilverHub Media – launched April this year – have announced 3 key new additions to their London team as they continue with their mission to ‘reinvigorate the editorial picture industry’. Joining SilverHub with a remit to further develop their celebrity and entertainment business are Hannah Marlin, who joins from Getty…
The Mega Agency are having an agency building week with their second announcement here in 24 hours – They say: New media company The Mega Agency continues its rapid global expansion with the opening of offices selling directly in Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. The agency, founded by former Splash…
Photo library Blend Images have released their first Royalty Free images… They say “Now ready for licensing, Blend Images just released a premier interiors and architecture collection, many images of which are available for Royalty Free licensing for the first time. These pictures deliver exclusive inside access to the world’s…
…’The Keynote Speaker this year will be Amy Jun Liang, CEO of Visual China Group (VCG). Since their purchase of Corbis earlier this year the industry has been focused on VCG’s plans and next moves. You will want to be there to hear Amy discuss their strategy and how business…
The Mega Agency will be launching with an archive of 30 million images after signing a global licensing agreement with Newscom, a multi-agency archive of digital images. Mega founder Kevin Smith (above) told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning that the deal with Newscom, which adds more than 50,000 new images and other…
Nice collection of promo goodies just arrived from LA this morning at the PhotoArchiveNews.com UK office …Thanks BEN…
Travel stock photo expert library 4Corners have uploaded a fresh photo edit from New Zealand. The images are a final edit from contributing photographer Justin Foulkes’ trip to New Zealand’s North Island took him around the Firth of Thames from Auckland to the Coromandel Peninsula, taking in Hahei Beach and…
Getty Images have been started looking through the millions of images available to them in the Bettmann archive – the fabulous historical photo collection which came to them via the VCG/Corbis deal. In our exclusive article with Craig Peters the Senior Vice President, Business Development, Content and Product at Getty…
500px are calling it Splash …’Select a color and size for your brush. Then, Splash paint on the canvas and see matching photos appear in your search results. Keep adding colors to see your results change, and adjust the category filter to see different images.’…
Launched in Beta in 2014 photo library Picfair have just launched for real with an updated to their website now offering three million contributors images. They say: “Since the day we launched just over two years ago, we’ve been working obsessively to reach photographers in every corner of the globe.…
The Mega Agency – launched via PAN in February – have made three new hires this week Paul Tetley, David Leigh and Karlo Pastrovic. Tetley, previously VP Global News and Entertainment at Corbis, will be Mega’s Chief Operations Officer (COO). Tetley first worked for Splash, and then Corbis, for 14…
Getty Images are ramping up their push to embrace the ‘consumer’ viewers of their content with the appointment this week of Steve Grimes to the newly created role of Managing Editor & Senior Vice President of Consumer Media. They say: “Steve will have editorial oversight of Getty Images’ new consumer…
Can you help? – A PPHP reader is building a local London history website and would like to clear copyright on images from photographers Peter Pitt, Sydney W Newbery and Morgan-Wells. The images were found in local council archives, traced to photo agencies who no longer represent the photographers. Answers…
Chris and Peter Whittle (above) who’s late father Brian founded UK based news agency Cavendish Press have launched their own agency this morning called Atlantic Images – a new transatlantic picture agency operating in the UK, USA and Canada. Chris Whittle told PAN: “Atlantic Images will work directly with high-profile individuals,…
