The House of Lords discussed the Copyright debate on Monday this week, Viscount Bridgeman was there…. Viscount Bridgeman: My Lords, I declare an interest as a director of the Bridgeman Art Library, of which my wife is the founder and chairman. I shall speak to Amendment 28DZA in support of…
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Shutterstock have expanded their focus on Eastern Europe and launched a site in four new languages, Turkish, Hungarian, Polish and Czech. The announcement brings the total number of languages supported by Shutterstock to fourteen, and reflects increasing local popularity of the site, enabling easier access for customers, a better user…
Winner: The SABMiller Photographer Of The Year – JASON HOWE Winner: PhotoBox Regional Photographer Of The Year – CHARLES MCQUILLAN The UK Picture Editors Guild are pleased to announce that a collection of photographs from this years awards are on display at the Museum of London between Jan 18th and…
↑ Click for Gallery of Philip Treacy Spring Summer 2013 catwalk show at London Fashion Week Photographer Rob Sheppard, owner at photo agency Catwalk Capture, has posted an article on the agency’s blog highlighting the reasons for hiring a specialist photographer to cover your catwalk event. ‘A common mistake amongst…
Media makers marketplace Pond5 have released version “v2” of their website. They say – ‘The site offers a dramatically improved experience for both customers and contributors, giving filmmakers, photographers, musicians, 3D artists, and all kinds of media makers a place to connect with fellow artists, sell their stock media, and…
Premium stock photo agency Gallery Stock now have a dedicated free image search and request page…
Metro newspaper in London has partnered the World Photography Organisation (WPO) on a new photography competition from WPO called My UK Photo: My UK judge Alan Sparrow – Metro’s Picture Editor ©PhotoArchiveNews.com Entry is now open and asks a simple question – what does the great British winter look like…
Look out for Collage Stock launching later this year – it’s microstock – its 50% commission on image sales – you can apply to be a contributor here They say: We are artists and business owners that were constantly looking for microstock pictures that represented all ethnicities and we consistently…
Photo agency Magnum have reached the half a million followers mark on Twitter (@magnumphotos) – by comparison Getty Images have 67K followers, Corbis 16k, VII 22k, Reuters Pictures 70k …and iStockphoto 47k. PAN is a few 0’s off the Magnum following, we hit the 500 followers milestone this week @PANupdate…
Gwyn Headley, the boss at photo library fotoLibra, has identified a credit card scam set up by a bogus contributor to the library. ….This is how it works. First ‘You’ steal someone’s credit card details. Then You join fotoLibra as a free member and upload one picture. Then You join…
Society magazine Tatler have an online list of ‘The People Who Really Matter’ called The Tatler List. Our very own stock photo industry representative Mark Getty, co-founder of photo agency giant Getty Images, weighs in at number 529 on the list, one ahead of Princess Antonia Of Russia and 528…
UK media copyright experts Swan Turton reports: ‘The High Court has granted an interim injunction preventing the Sun from publishing embarrassing Facebook photos of Edward RocknRoll, who married Kate Winslet in December 2012. …The judge found that Mr RocknRoll had a reasonable expectation of privacy mainly because: (1) the photographs…
Google have announced a change the way it displays and identifies photographs on the Google images search platform. They say ‘Based on feedback from both users and webmasters, we redesigned Google Images to provide a better search experience. In the next few days, you’ll see image results displayed in an…
Photographers like Ben Lowy, Jim Goldstein feature in the latest photo business guide from website company PhotoShelter. The guide covers tips on: • Market your photo business with Facebook • Attract readers to your blog • Improve SEO traffic • Get more work from old clients • Create a lasting photo brand •…
CEPIC Week • Barcelona • 11 – 14 June • World Trade Centre The say “If you register before 31 January 2013, you will profit from low registration fees, even lower than the ones we offered last year for the CEPIC congress in London!” Book your place here…
NYSE Magazine have run a company profile on stock photo agency Shutterstock. Founder Jon Oringer introduced the article via Linkedin – “A few of us at Shutterstock sat down with NYSE Magazine to discuss our founding story, how our search works, how we innovate, and of course: our recent NYSE…
Reuters are live with their relaunched Reuters Pictures website. The say: ‘The new site offers many improvements making it even easier to find exactly what you’re looking for.’ These include: • A faster, more intuitive user experience • A redesigned homepage offering access to more of their latest packages • Auto-populated search…
above: David on assignment – ©unknown kindly supplied by the Farrell Estate David Farrell – Lebrecht Music & Arts photographer obituary Lebrecht Music & Arts announces with deep regret the passing away of their photographer David Farrell on January 3rd aged 93. David has been represented by this photo library…