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akg-images’ Managing Director David Price-Hughes says, “2014 is an important year for akg-images. Not only is our London office celebrating its twenty-year anniversary, but we have just launched a brand-new searchable website, completely redesigned to help clients find images faster and better than ever before, incorporated many of their suggestions…

click it ↑ to visit – Artist management company INSTITUTE are online with a new website.…

click through it ↑ – if you are on twitter- Great infostat from @GoogleFacts…

Corbis Chief Executive Officer Gary Shenk has been appointed independent director at Mood Media – ‘one of the world’s largest designers of in-store consumer experiences, including audio, visual, interactive, scent, voice and advertising solutions’. They say: ‘Mr. Shenk is a seasoned digital media and communications business executive with significant experience…

above, on the phone again! – Charles Taylor owner at Photoshot ©photoarchivenews.com London based photo agency Photoshot has completed it’s 17th acquisition with the purchase of stock photo specialist library/agency Construction Photography along with The Data Archive a digital asset management software platform developed by Construction Photography owner Jean-Francois Cardella.…

Spotted on superb book publisher Taschen’s site by PAN reader photographer Tom Broadbent: Wanted: Picture editor extraordinaire! Have what it takes to find the photos and illustrations for a TASCHEN book? We’re offering one talented picture editor a freelance research assignment worth $ 5,000. The assignment: Find a sampling of…

The London Evening Standard has chosen eyevine as their official photo syndication agency. From 1st February, photography commissioned by the LES, including many of the exceptional images appearing in the ES Magazine, will be available to republish on licence through agency. ↑ David Ofield at a recent fotofringe event –…

The staff at Keystone Press Agency around 1981. On our Press Photo History Project site – Sad news in from the family of Bertram Garai – Ex owner of Keystone Press London – this morning – “Dear Mr Carleton, this is to inform you for your records that my father,…

Frank Reynolds (1970’s): police inquiry Surrey Police have contacted PhotoArchiveNews.com looking to trace the photographer Frank Reynolds. Frank took photographs that appeared in a magazine titled; ‘The Motor Cycle’ and ‘Cycle Trader’ magazine in the mid 1970’s. The police believe he may be a witness and may be able to…

Flora Nedelcu of Topfoto is putting the finishing touches to this year’s fotofringe, Thursday 22 May 2014. The last few remaining tables have been allocated but those joining the waiting list now will be in line for a table in the event of cancellations: “I already encourage any expressions of…

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Online graphics subscription services agency Vital Imagery Ltd has announced that it has acquired Clipart.com and AnimationFactory.com from Getty Images. They say: ‘These pioneering websites offer royalty-free clipart, 3D images and animations, photos, photo objects, Microsoft PowerPoint templates, fonts, as well as video backgrounds, e-mail and web page backgrounds for…

Feb.27 panel”Vietnam: Defining Images” at 92Y in New York featuring Kimberly Dozier,Peter Arnett & Pete Hamill ‘To cover the Vietnam war, the Associated Press gathered a group of superb photojournalists in Saigon, creating one of the most remarkable photographic legacies of the twentieth century. Join the great war correspondent Peter…

Pierre Omidyar founder and chairman of the eBay auction site is entering the news delivery business with First Look Media which launches later this year. …and they are recruiting ‘ talented journalists, technologists, designers now’. ‘I’m Pierre Omidyar. Among other things, I’m a technologist, philanthropist, and publisher. I created First…

↑ click it – Number 1 – for the Curated collection at Stocksy – ‘We’ve made it, it’s time to officially celebrate our favorite movement of 2013: real people, in real places, doing real things and saying no more bad stock.’ View the other trends on their blog • Stocksy…

BBC reports: An English gourmet crisp company has been criticised for unwittingly using a picture of famed Welsh poet RS Thomas to promote a humorous competition. …The crisp-maker admitted it bought the picture from an image library without realising who it was…. Here:BBC…