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News Exclusive… Premium stock photo agency Trunk Archive in New York have announced new shareholders. Matthew Moneypenney, CEO at Trunk, explained the new structure to PhotoArchiveNews.com: “Trunk Archive was started by, and had mostly been owned by a consortium of Danish investors. This group recently sold their shares to the…

These images in this week from PAN friends PA Images and FameFlynet both covering the lead up to the Royal birth – the media frenzy is only a matter of days away now! ↑ A collection of ladders stand outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London…

a PhotoArchiveNews.com industry news exclusive Joe Sené (above) who has nearly 20 years experience as a picture editor and agency manager at celebrity photo agency giants Big Pictures, Splash News and WENN is heading up Vantage News, a new London based celebrity news and photo agency, which launches today. Vantage…

This just in: James West (Alamy CEO) and Mike Fischer (Alamy Chairman) have invested in a smartphone video start up called Manything, an innovative new video recording service that uses smartphones and tablets as remote video cameras. Other investors on the board include Dan Germain, Head of Creative at Innocent…

Editorial photographers Rob Clinton Alex Coghe John Hornbeck Gabriele Lopez Theodor Panorios Michael Ernest Sweet and Jonathan Van Smit have got together to produce a magazine called ‘noise’ showcasing their recent work available to licence. They say ‘We are a collective focused on a project. We have not started with…

It’s on eBay! …for £5.99 – London Fleet street novelty entrance door mat 40 x 60…

Photographer Antonin Kratochvil represented by VII photo agency discusses photography & more with Vogue Italy as part of their Vogue Masters series here: ‘Antonin Kratochvil one of the first to introduce an authorial aesthetics in photojournalism’…

UK based photo library Topfoto are online this month with a selection of images from the collection based around the photo news fifty years ago – above is Christine Keeler on her way to the Stephen Ward trial Other highlights in the edit include shots from the Tour de France,…

↑ FIRST PRIZE : Photo Essay Andrew McConnell, Panos Pictures – click it for the slideshow The results of The Press Photographer’s Year for 2013 have been announced. Photographer Adrian Dennis at AFP won three prize categories PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YEAR – FIRST PRIZE : Sports Folio of the Year…

ITV, the UK TV channel covering the Tour de France, are uploading a daily photo gallery of each days racing. They say: ‘We’ll be posting a selection of the best photos of the 100th Tour de France throughout the race’s three weeks. Check back here daily to see them.’ thanks…

Updated: this in from PPHP contributor photographer David Levenson – thank you Daivd! Hi Will I saw your query on PPHP about Joe Waldorf. I met him in the States many years ago on a Queen Tour in 1983. I think he lived in California, and would guess is probably…

Getty Images has partnered with AcademicPub™, a technology platform which enables faculty to create customised course packs with real-time selection of copyright-cleared content from multiple publishers and sources. They say: ‘Under the terms of the partnership, AcademicPub, as part of its continued mission to help educators provide engaging learning experiences,…

Twitter have updated their ‘power user’ platform TweetDeck to enable larger and more flexible previews to make ‘your media shine’. They say: ‘Media previews on TweetDeck used to appear as small thumbnails that you could turn on and off from the settings panel. Now, we offer previews in three sizes…

Multimedia celebrity photo agency FameFlynet are now offering subscription packages aimed at all web and publishing companies ….and catering for all budgets. They say: ‘For a single monthly subscription fee you get access to all the high-resolution celebrity images you will ever need 24 hours a day, 7 days a…

PA images in the UK have launched a logo ↑ and added 16,000 creative stock images from Candybox – all model released…

PhotoArchiveNews.com friend Clare Giles is going to be pounding the turf running 10k in the Cancer Research UK Race for Life event Maidstone, Kent on the 7th July 2013 – She took up the challenge on news of a friend recently diagnosed with breast cancer – SO, if cancer has…

Nic Newman Digital News Report editor – ‘News is becoming more mobile, more social, and more real-time. This year’s survey reveals continuing shifts in how, when, and where people access the news, with digital patterns becoming more entrenched – particularly amongst the younger half of the population. Audiences increasingly want…