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Publishing giants Random House & Penguin have approval from the European Commission to merge.. The BBC has the story: ….’Brussels said the merged business – which will be the world’s largest book publisher – would not raise competition concerns, because it will “face several strong competitors”. Random House’s German parent…

The Press Photo History website has been listed on the British Library’s UK Web Archive. We were contacted last year by the British Library archiving team who had identified the site as a useful resource. The Press Photo History project is currently mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet…

PhotoArchiveNews.com is media partner to fotofringe London 2013 • At Kings Place – a hub for music, art, dialogue and food in London’s Kings Cross – 24 April • Picture researchers, Picture editors and Art directors book your free entry ticket here above – fotofringe 2012 Welcome desk – visitors…

The Picture Researchers Association in the UK have completed a ‘redesign and makeover’ of their website. The new site features a register of experienced Image Researchers and Picture Editors, photo agency and photographer focus pages, information on copyright and industry events. Back issues of the associations magazine Montage are being…

Fast growing microstock photo agency Shutterstock are preparing to launch a new brand called Offset, featuring a curated collection of extraordinary imagery. They say: ‘Offset is aimed at disrupting the marketplace for high-end content, and offers authentic, sophisticated imagery and a simple, transparent licensing model. We’re working with some of…

With the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil looming Getty Images are back in buying mode. Getty Images has acquired 100% ownership of G&S Imagens do Brasil Ltda, its third party distributor in Brazil. Trading under the name of Getty Images do Brasil,…

The Bridgeman Art Library will be attending Fotofringe on April 24 where they are offering everyone who visits their table a choice of 6 of our covetable oyster card holders featuring our contemporary artists, iconic fine art and photography as well as the opportunity to win a print of their…

The New York Times ‘Bits’ blog reports how rare celeb photos taken by a members of the public via Instagram are becoming popular with magazine editors. ‘Earlier this week, a rare and new photo of the pop star Beyoncé and her daughter, Blue Ivy, quickly spread around the Internet, on…

….’With the complete shift to digital we see comparatively little of the researchers who use our images and nowadays even a phone call is rare, so used are we to emailing and ordering online. Which is why it’s so exciting to be attending fotofringe in London for the third year…

Sarah McDonald, Curator at the [Getty Images] Hulton Archive, has posted an article on the Getty Images blog about the first staff photographers at Picture Post magazine. ‘When, in 1934, Stefan Lorant was asked to revamp Weekly Illustrated along the lines of pictorial magazines he’d edited in Germany he had…

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Congratulations to photographer Andrew Boyers at photo agency Action Images who won “Sports Picture of the Year” category at the 2012 Sports Journalists’ Association (SJA) British Sports Journalism Awards this week. The winning image, above, is a shot of South Korea’s Woojin Hwang being dismounted from his horse Shearwater Oscar…

An announcement from Rex Features: Tony Kyriacou started at Rex as an office junior in the mid 90’s. He was offered a staff photographer’s job after smuggling himself into a Spice Girls party at the Oxo Tower, armed with a point and shoot and leaving with his first exclusive set…

Staff at the Getty Images Sydney office got together & ’embraced their most craziest dance moves’ to give you the Harlem Shake Um …Ten out of Ten people! Send your agency Harlem Shake videos to [email protected] The last time Getty Images staff produced a video was in 2010 – PAN…

Alamy are online this morning with a great looking new website – the agency’s CEO James West explained all in a blog post yesterday: ‘As you know if you read this blog we have been working on lots of stuff lately to make buying from Alamy a better experience for…

Stocksy, ‘a digital licensing co-op’ launches today. Founded by Bruce Livingstone, the man who bought the stock photo industry iStockphoto (which he sold to Getty Images in 2006), the platform offers a new concept for contributing photographers: ‘An online marketplace owned collectively by its photographer-members and dedicated to paying them…

The COO of Getty Images, Nick Evans-Lombe, is to leave the agency on 31 March. This just in from Getty Images…. Statement from Getty Images Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Klein “Getty Images Chief Operating Officer Nick Evans-Lombe, who has played a significant leadership role in the growth and…

Developing story …French photo agency Sipa which has been in bankruptcy since December 2012 is to be taken over by UK based photo agency giant Rex Features and Belgium based photo agency Isopix…PAN understands three parties bid for the agency a few weeks ago with the winners being decided by…