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Update: Copyright cleared Will, Good news – I have managed to make contact with relatives of the photographer ‘Smedley’, so this case can be closed now. Thank you for your help. Tom Watkinson, Blakeway Productions, London ↑ Do you own the © on this image? Original article publisged 9 June…

Palette is the latest function to be added to the Shutterstock site. You can now explore the collection via curated palettes or create your own palette selecting colours to match your brief. They say: “Designers love exploring the Shutterstock collection using color and we wanted to create a unique experience…

Notice: This in from PantherMedia CEO, Robert Walters Munich, 08th of July 2014: The German stock photo agency PantherMedia acquires the stock photo agency Digitalstock After 10 years of business, Digitalstock GmbH ceases its operation. Customers and photographers receive an exclusive offer to continue buying and selling photos online at…

Click it ↓ The new-look site Los Angeles based celebrity photo agency X17 are online with a new look site this week. Announcing the new site to their 20K Twitter followers the agency wrote: ‘What do you think about our new look?! x17online is bigger and better!’ Take a look…

Getty Images have released a new batch of digitised and licence-ready images from the the Popperfoto collection they took in-house a few years ago from founder Czech photo-journalist Paul Popper.The images are by Ray Bellisario London’s first paparazzo who started papping the Royal family forty years ago. • Popperfoto was…

• 31 July to 1 August 2014 • Collingwood College, Durham University • The fee for delegates is £55 for both days The intersection of photography and war encompasses a broad and complex field. Yet conceptually, “war photography” is often restricted to the activities of photojournalists producing aesthetically compelling images…

The Heritage Lottery Fund in the UK has supplied a £60,000 grant to help Wolverhampton based newspaper Express & Star digitise up to one million photographs from it’s archive. …The project aims to carry out vital archiving work, digitise the collection and make the photographs available through a single web…

‘We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the 19th Annual PACA Conference! We’re returning to New York City, one of the United States’ most vibrant, artistic, and populous cities. The City That Never Sleeps is the perfect setting for PACA, the Digital Media Licensing Association, in our…

With nearly 100 locations every year that attract around 3 million visitors, World Press Photo is pleased to announce that the debut location of its 2014 exhibition tour, at De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, attracted more than 75.000 visitors, a record number for the location. Michiel Munneke, managing director World…

ITN Source, the footage licensing division of UK news and multimedia content provider ITN will now be directly offering clients Still images from Rex Features to back up news clip requests. Full story on FootageNews.com…

Lebrecht Photo Library is delighted to invite you to the first in a series of presentations curated in co-operation with the Ben-Uri Gallery, St Johns Wood, London. Military historian, Sanjoy Mukherjee-Richardson, will take you through life in the trenches and the wider context of World War I. The talk will…

↑ Magnum Members at the 67th Annual General Meeting © Martin Fuchs / Magnum Photos Magnum Photos held their 2014 AGM in New York City last week. The first day of proceedings was held at the International Center of Photography. New photographer members, associates and nominees announced are: Moises Saman…

‘Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989. That was 20 years ago, he was just 24 years of age. The Ian Parry Scholarship was created by Aidan Sullivan, then picture editor and Ian’s friends and family in…