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Newly formed photo agency SilverHub Media has appointed multi-award winning sports photographer, Bob Martin, as the company’s Director of Photography. In his role, Bob will oversee photography at SilverHub – shaping how the business shoots its news, entertainment and sports pictures for editorial and media clients, corporate brands and rights-holders. During…

Shutterstock’s Jon Oringer featured on the CNBC Mad Money show last night in the US – he discussed copyright, selling 5 images a second and 1.5 million new customers in the last 12 months. click above or HERE…

EPFL Quartier Nord – Ecublens, Switzerland ©Fernando Guerra The Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards 2016 is now open for entries. Shortlisted photographs for the Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards 2016 will be exhibited at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin in November. The overall winner will be announced at the Gala Dinner. We…

Dancing Couple ©Richard Balzer/Bridgeman Footage Bridgeman Images have a new collection of  looping animations from Richard Balzer. The animated 19th century phenakistoscopes, thaumatropes and zoetropes, are available as gifs and video files exclusively from Bridgeman Footage. Richard Balzer, a devoted collector of early motion picture imagery and ephemera, started his collection more than 30…

Spotted by one of our regular readers – Click through above or HERE to watch Contact Press Images tackle a photo assignment in 1978 – great footage! – more please if you know of any – [email protected] Thanks for sending this in JB!…

Another photo agency online with a brand new website this week is The Hollywood Archive Agency – ‘We are home to a collection that traces the history of Hollywood from the silents, to today’s films, TV Shows and modern day Red Carpet events and premieres.’ Owner Joseph Martinez told PhotoAerchiveNews.com…

London based editorial photo agency eyevine are online this week with a brand new-look website. They say “As well as much improved and simpler navigation, the redesign displays larger showcase images of the most topical sets of images such as portrait shoots and breaking news events on the home page.…

A cow being milked on a platform at Kings’ Cross Railway Station, London Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images 1926:  Britain Through The Lens, is opening at the Getty Images Gallery on May 18th. It takes us back to the year when Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was born.  In exploring both…

These days he is more likely to be found behind a computer screen or outside perfecting his drone piloting skills but a couple of weeks ago Shutterstock boss Jon Oringer decided to document the action on the red carpet first-hand at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival – from behind the…

Getty Images and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have announced a new long-term agreement, with Getty Images serving exclusively as the Official Photographic Agency of the IOC and as the Official Imagery Supplier to the IOC. ‘The extension of this long-standing relationship underlines Getty Images’ commitment to the IOC and…

‘Photofusion means something special both to creativity in London, and to the community in Brixton. We are gravely threatened by a combination of falling funding and rising rent. Please help us to move, survive, and carry on doing great work! Photofusion is a hub for photography that has been based…

As promised by Gary Shenk in a PAN interview last month… From their presser: ‘Corbis Entertainment, the world’s leading end-to-end solution for branded integration, celebrity content, and rights and music clearances, announced today that the company has been renamed to Branded Entertainment Network (BEN). The corporate rebranding reflects the evolution…

• UPDATE 5 May 2016 – this in from Nature Picture Library Hi Will, Sheila Corr, freelance picture researcher, was the lucky winner of the Nature Picture Library draw to win a £300 voucher towards a Sawday’s Canopy and Stars glamping weekend. She’s currently deciding what to choose from their…

What the visitors said on the day: • “It was the first time I had been free to attend and I was really impressed at the range and number of image libraries that attended.” photo researcher • “The event was of enormous benefit to me personally, as a freelance archive researcher, to…

Great little reminder here to the masses on photo usage – BBC Academy training manager Mark James presents a video guide to staying on the right side of copyright law when choosing pictures. – click it to view…

‘Effective online search is an essential tool for the discovery of images and Google Images dominates this market. Today, the Google Images format promotes “right click” piracy by making hi res imagery easily available, with no requirement for the user to go to the source site to find out how…

Updated 10 May 2016: And the winner is…. Aerial photo experts High Level Photography …and they celebrated correctly! April 26 2016 This in from Ross MacRae, Managing Director at photo marketing company BikiniLists sponsors of the fotofringe London event last week There’s still time for fotofringe exhibitors to enter to…