The NUJ’s London Photographers’ Branch reports: ‘Following a meeting with Arcadia Group, Adam Goldman, company secretary and Tracy Dixon, Topshop’s regional controller, the company has issued a full apology for the treatment of NUJ photographer Jess Hurd in its flagship Oxford Street store in December 2011.’ ‘Jess Hurd, chair of…
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Hamburg based, family-owned Bauer Media Group has acquired 100% of ACP Magazines. ACP, which was established in 1933, is Australia and New Zealand’s largest magazine publisher,reaching over 15 million Australians each year. With leading magazine titles in almost every category, ACP’s major brands include The Australian Women’s Weekly, Woman’s Day,…
UK based specialist subject photo agency Writer Pictures have introduced their most recent contributing photographer via a Q&A on their blog – get to know Lisa Carpenter and her photography we say: Great marketing! – more of these please…
click above to preview ‘An Eye For Music – exclusively at photo library ArenaPAL ‘An Eye For Music’ by Sisi Burn: ‘As another successful season of the Proms draws to a close, we present this Limited Edition photo book by Sisi Burn celebrating her passion for all styles of music’.…
Hello! Magazine has announced it is to push up market by dropping general celebrity coverage favouring lifestyle & fashion as it’s main content …Pap agencies read on here…
James Naughtie profiles Rupert Murdoch, the global media magnate. Despite the phone-hacking scandal, his political influence and business skills elicit both fear and admiration. Here…
The Wall Street Journal reports: ‘Carlyle has announced 11 buyouts worth $22.3 billion this year, making it the most active private equity buyer this year, according to Dealogic’ …full report here Thanks to PAN reader John for flagging this one up…
Getty Images’ new owner the Carlyle Group are buying the auto paints unit of Du Point the paint company for $4.9 Billion …they got Getty Images for $3.3b …WSJ.com has the story Thanks to PAN reader John for this one…
New post on the Press Photo History Project now: Hi, Will. I just wondered if you knew dates (birth/death) for [photographer] Drees who… PressPhotoHistory.com…
**Early Bird Registration Discount extended to 7th September! FOCAL International Seminar – The Business of Archives Date: Friday 28th September 2012 Location: Pullman London St. Pancras Hotel, UK Sign up here 3 August 2012 Topics to be discussed: • How can we encourage the libraries, commissioners and producers to buy…
Splash Founder Confirmed Speaker At Luminance… full report on AboutTheImage.com…
Camille Pecnard on the ILO website reports: ‘Copyright infringement by digitalisation of photographs without authorisation’ ‘The First Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court rendered a decision regarding the digitalisation of photographs by a press agency without the photographer’s express authorisation. The court considered whether such digitalisation must be expressly mentioned…
They say: In response to the overwhelming industry concern about preserving today’s motion picture and television content long into the future, Kodak has developed an affordable, innovative color film specifically designed for asset protection. The new KODAK Color Asset Protection Film 2332 is optimized for content owners who originate or…
The Huffington Post reports on the growing problem of monitoring porn images uploaded by users of photo sharing app Instagram. …’The explicit images run afoul of Instagram’s terms of service, which prohibit “nude, partially nude, or sexually suggestive photos.” But while Instagram can ban certain activity, it can’t always police…
Visa pour l’Image pro week runs 1 – 6 Sept Below are details of shows sent into PhotoArchiveNews.com from photo agencies VII, Panos, and Noor. Happy to build this article/showcase so send in your Visa news and links… thanks [email protected] VII: click the photographers to view Projects by VII photographers…
Newly formed Matrix Media Group brings together Matrix Picture Agency, Matrix Studios and Matrix Australia all under one banner. A spokesman for the group told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning: ‘Matrix Studios has been a great success since it’s launch earlier this year, bringing in collections from studio photographers from around the…
Photo: Elbie and Lily at lunch This just in….. Hi Will, We recently ran a competition and have an image of the winner out with our Managing Director Elbie Lebrecht. Author Pictures at Lebrecht competition winner Lily Richards of Random House enjoyed an exquisite French cuisine lunch with Elbie at…