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STUDIOCANAL one of Europe’s leading feature film co-production, acquisition and distribution companies have made a selection of stills and posters available as photographic prints from their big name film catalogue. Film titles available include Billy Liar Dam Busters The Railway Children The Wickerman. Print sizes go up to 40″x30″, framed…

Above – arriving in the post this week at the PhotoArchiveNews.com office – NI Syndication (a year in ‘Profile’) 2013 desk calendar | Nature Picture Library 2013 desk calendar | Mary Evans Picture Library 2013 desk calendar The Woodcuts of Watanabe Seitei Thanks!…

CEPIC Week • Barcelona • 11 – 14 June • World Trade Centre Registration is now open for Congress 2013 – early bird deals available…

above: Rebekah Brooks, former head of News Corp.’s U.K. publishing unit News International, leaves after appearing at Southwark Crown Court in London, on June 22, 2012. Jason Alden/Bloomberg …’Alden describes finding a vantage point amid a media scrum with jostling photographers, a stepladder tumbling over and one crucial moment: “She…

Dancers (left to right) Stanislava Belinskaya as Clara, Lydia Rubtsova as Marianna and Vassily Stukolkin as Fritz in the first production of the The Nutcracker, the Mariinsky Theatre, 1892 Credit: RIA Novosti / ArenaPAL Performing arts photo library ArenaPAL are celebrating the 120th anniversary of the first performance of The…

Photo: INDIA Rajasthan Portrait of a Hindu holy man. Eye Ubiquitous/Press Association Images Press Association Images are now representing the Eye Ubiquitous travel photography collection. Mary Egan, Sales and Marketing Director, Press Association Images said: “Working with Eye Ubiquitous enables us to really build on our travel content offering their…

Design Pics Inc., headquartered in Edmonton, Canada, has announced the promotion of Laurie McCampbell to Vice President of Sales and Marketing which encompasses all of the brands and responsibilities for the North American direct sales. She will also be working closely together with Tim Hook, Manager of the London UK…

Update: 19 Dec – Instagram will now NOT be selling your photos …here’s the announcement in a blog post by Kevin Systrom co-founder, Instagram – Thank you, and we’re listening Related: 18 Dec Instagram launches as a commercial photo library – starting Jan 16 2013…

Update: 19 Dec – Instagram will now NOT be selling your photos …here’s the announcement in a blog post by Kevin Systrom co-founder, Instagram – Thank you, and we’re listening 18 Dec: Instagram launches as a commercial photo library – starting Jan 16 2013 Facebook owned Instagram have made a…

Congratulations to photographer Andrew Newey who has won ‘Best Single Image in a Portfolio’ at the Travel Photographer of the Year competition TPOTY 2012 with his image above. Andrew told me: “Hi Will, I know it’s been a while since we last spoke but I just wanted to thank you…

Photo library Mary Evans are offering two free tickets to the Hartnell to Amies – Couture by Royal Appointment exhibition now on at the Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey. London – closes on 23rd February 2013. They say ‘The recipient of the tickets will be the first name pulled…

Adam Patterson has joined Panos Pictures. Currently based in Northern Ireland, Adam has recently worked with the BBC’s Panorama programme in various capacities in Dubai, Chile and the UK. He was given a Special Mention at the 2010 World Press Awards for his role in getting a camera to the…

Updated 12 Dec – Thames & Hudson team were crowned Champions of the Bridgeman pub quiz 2012 won the quiz …see photos ↓ by Alessandro Conficoni Account Manager at Bridgeman. Giovanni Cafagna, Bridgeman Commercial Director and quiz master, with Katherine Millar Craig (used to be in Bridgeman cataloguing team) and…

Alan in the archives with the BBC – click ↑ and start at 19mins in Alan Smith the owner of Kent based image library Topfoto has been helping local BBC News programme South East Today with a feature they ran this week about the film Lawrence of Arabia. Related: From…

Sky News Australia reports: ‘Paparazzo and businessman Darryn Lyons is suing the Herald and Weekly Times and The Geelong Advertiser for defamation over a story they published about his financial situation.’ Full story here www.skynews.com.au…

Microstock agency Depositphotos has reported it grew at a record pace in 2012, more than doubling its stock content library offering to 11 million royalty free stock photographs, vector images, and videos. They say ‘More than 150,000 high-quality stock files are uploaded to Depositphotos’ website on a weekly basis. In…

London based premium stock photo producer Image Source are offering 60% royalties on any imagery produced in North American between Dec 1st 2012 and through to Dec 31st 2013 …and the 60% remains then for the lifetime of the image. They say: ‘The merger of Image Source and Cultura Creative…