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8:30am: Minutes after the news of a helicopter crashing in Vauxhall London (8am) Twitter users were breaking the news via images and video with many uploads making the the main news sites. 9:15am: Photo agencies Rex Features and Alamy were up early with available pictures directly from their Live News…

Open – TEN Season 2: 10 artists, 10 themes, 10 months and 10 PSD Royalty free photo agency Fotolia have launched a second season of their TEN series. Each month internet users can access a PSD file of a new artist, with all its layers and resources, for free and…

Invision the dedicated celebrity photo agency jointly owned by the Associated Press and some of the world’s leading entertainment photographers – launched May 2012 – will now be shooting for entertainment industry news gatherer The Hollywood Reporter. They say: Invision will act as the exclusive, credentialed photographer for THR, providing…

UK camera store company Jessops have gone into administrator Price Waterhouse Coopers have confirmed to the BBC. BBC reports: Troubled High Street camera retailer Jessops has gone into administration, with PricewaterhouseCoopers appointed as the administrator Here…

Visual and social commerce platform Kiosked has partnered with Getty Images PicScout Image IRC platform to bring a new solution to Kiosked clients that enables publishers to automatically monetise all their online visual content, images and videos, by turning it into dynamic storefronts. They say ‘For publishers choosing to add…

John Lennon in bed with Yoko Ono at the Hilton Hotel Amsterdam, March 1969 © Charles Ley/Mirrorpix Mirrorpix have sent me images of Charles Ley, a Mirror staff photographer for 40 years -retired in 1980- who has died at the age of 87. (3rd Jan) Charles took this famous picture…

“The more I tried to understand Russia, the more lost I became. Russia is like a planet of its own.” Rafał Milach – click the image for the full feature Poland based documentary photographer Rafal Milach has joined photo agency Institute. Rafal graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice,…

The Margaret St Gallery in London is host to the Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA) group show, “Home”: YPA Mentoring 2012 Runs: 8 January 2013 – 17 January 2013 Margaret St Gallery 63 Margaret Street London W1W 8SW YPA’s Mentoring Programme links emerging talent with leading photographers and picture editors/ art…

Polaroid will use the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) as a platform to announce its plans for a series of experiential retail stores where consumers can quickly and easily liberate their favorite images from the confines of their digital devices and turn them into museum-quality art. Polaroid Fotobar stores will…

Daily Mail reports: ‘Justin Bieber has called for new laws for paparazzi following the ‘tragic’ death of a photographer who was run over and killed while taking pictures of the star’s sportscar.’ Full story here: dailymail.co.uk TMZ have this: Bieber Photog’s Death Who’s to Blame?…

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Fab presentation of their best images from specialist travel stock photo agency 4 Corners Images – click it! Steve Lake from the agency told me, “Happy New Year. Hope you had a good Christmas – To showcase some of the best Travel Photography of 2012 uploaded to 4Corners Images, we…

Hi Will, Happy New Year! I saw your top 10 article on Splash top sales in 2012. While we are far away from being that big as Splash, we did put together a top 5 of our top stories in 2012. Macaulay Culkin was a big one on TMZ.COM, while…

Splash News & Picture Agency have just sent me these photos, rounding up their top 10 selling celebrity photo packages of 2012 …v.surprised no other agency/library has put anything together ↑ Prince Harry along with friends in an exclusive, heavily guarded, VIP bungalow at Wet Republic in Las Vegas |…

Photoshelter are straight back into the photo marketing arena for 2013 with another free business guide 10 Branding Secrets for Photographers “It’s no secret that competition in the photography industry has gotten fierce. But what makes your photography business stand out from the crowd? First and foremost, it starts with…

Media law expert Charles Swan a partner at photo industry law firm Swan Turton reports: The Government has published its plans for further copyright exceptions in line with recommendations in the Hargreaves Review. It intends to bring the following exceptions into force in October 2013: details here…

‘London is becoming the top summer destination for super-rich Arab tourists and their supercars, but many Knightsbridge and Chelsea residents are now complaining of sleepless nights C4…But the ‘carparazzi’ are loving it! ‘ This Channel 4 documentary -by Oblong Films, Bristol- provides an insight into the influx of supercars and…

Dear Will, Please find as requested a few old photos of Central Press staff from 1965 to 1970, Regards, Alan Coomes Alan is on the right looking for a bus back to Fleet Street…. View all photos on the Press Photo History site Alan heads up the Central Press cricket…