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Call for entries: 2016 World Press Photo Contest

The World Press Photo Foundation invites all professional photojournalists and visual storytellers worldwide to participate in the 59th annual photo contest. Entries to the photo contest may only be submitted online via the entry site, which opens today, 2 December, and closes on 13 January 2016, 12.00 (noon) CET. How…

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Marketing: Shutterstock customised Chrome

Great marketing idea here from Shutterstock – you can now have a new image background every time you open a new tab in Chrome. The ‘Shutterstock Tab’ shows a new image a day pulled from their image library and will display time, local weather, and recently visited sites, according to…

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Plainpicture: New site + ‘simplified’ rights

plainpicture are online this week with a brand new website and a new licensing model: plainpicture Rights Simplified They say: ‘plainpicture Rights Simplified (RS) for the first time truly combines the flexibility of Royalty Free with the advantages of classic RM exclusive photography. RS images can be licensed exclusively while…

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The Condé Nast Collection is now at Getty Images

Getty Images are now representing the Condé Nast Collection. With over 30,000 unique photographs, magazine covers and illustrations from leading brands such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ, the Collection will feature iconic images from famed photographers Edward Steichen, Horst P. Horst, Cecil Beaton and many other celebrated 20th-century photographers…

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Call for entries: UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards

Photos @ Nick Ray Awards evening 2014 • This year’s awards are to be held at the Headquarters of the Honourable Artillery Company in City Road London on Thursday February 25th 2016 and will be supported by UK Picture Editors Guild sponsors Bloomberg, British Airways, BT, Christie’s, Fixation, Genesis Imaging…

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Book: London Fire Brigade at 150 – represented by Mary Evans

London Fire Brigade at 150 A new book documenting 150 years of the London Fire Brigade is out now, part of a year-long celebration of the service’s 150th anniversary in 2016. Prior to 1866, responsibility for fighting fires in the capital lay with insurance firms, but escalating costs left them…

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Repeal of Section 52 Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988

This in from Julia Ruxton Picture Manager at Laurence King Publishing Ltd Will – I’m afraid this only concerns your UK picture research audience but hope you will publish it anyway. I know BAPLA have been very active on this already so photographers are probably more aware than picture researchers.…

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Bauer to suspend publication of FHM and ZOO magazines

First published in 1985 as ‘For Him Magazine’, the title changed its name to FHM and went from a quarterly to a monthly publication in 1994. Launched in 2004, ZOO joined Nuts (closed, April 2014) in the newly-created weekly men’s magazine market. They say ‘Over time young men’s media habits…

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Rex Features – staff redundancies taking place

Updated: • Lots of emails in from photo agency owners wanting to hookup with the Ex-Rex’ers – drop PAN a line to connect. It’s been a choppy couple of weeks for staff at photo agencies – Corbis made redundancies early last week, and Rex Features on Friday: this in from a…