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Magnum photographer Martine Franck has died. PAN reader Jinx Rodger [wife of Magnum photographer George Rodger] sent this reaction to Martine’s passing on Saturday; Dear Will: Magnum has lost a great photographer. Martine Franck has just died from cancer. I am very very sad as she was such a great…

UK headquartered stock photo agency Pocketstock has launched bidder, ‘a revolutionary new way to buy stock photos’. They say” Before bidder, a royalty free stock photo buyer needed to purchase photo credits, limited by expiration dates, simply to have the opportunity to purchase microstock images. The stock photography seller, not the…

‘Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and Getty Images management announced today they have formed a partnership to acquire Getty Images, Inc., a global creator and distributor of still imagery, video and multimedia products, from Hellman & Friedman for $3.3 billion. Carlyle will acquire a controlling stake…

UK based celebrity photo agency FameFlynet landed their own ‘gold medal’ with over 40 Olympic news images (a couple of examples above) used in UK newspapers on Saturday 11 August. John Churchill, Co-owner at the agency told PhotoArchiveNews.com: “We have had an excellent showing in the papers today (13 Aug)…

Amit Singhal, SVP, Engineering at Google Search has posted a notice on Google’s search blog noting that the search engine will be downgrading copyright infringers on it’s algorithms, the move mainly concerns music and film violations but it’s a move in the right direction. …’Starting next week, we will begin…

above: An example of one of the hidden gems in the TopFoto archive that has been discovered with the partnership of the EuropeanaPhotography project. EU001059 – “Chariots of Fire” legend, Harold Abrahams (blindfolded on left, 4 years before he won the Olympic Gold medal for Great Britain), Cambridge ‘Blue’ and…

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New request on the Press Photo History Project now… Dear Will, I came across your website today whilst searching for the photographers S.A Chandler & Son, originally based in Southampton. I am looking to see if an archive of this photographers photos exists? Any information you have would be greatly…

Dear Will, Thank you for speaking with me on the phone just now. Trinity House are looking to track down the current owners of some photos we’ve had in our library for a long time, with a view to licensing them for use in a book. The main agency is…

Hello Will I was pointed in your direction by Suzy from the PA. I am not sure if you can help, I would love to discover more of my Grandadfathers pictures – not sure if his negs are sitting in an archive somewhere! Attached is his image of Richard Burton…

– Vic Singh; his listing on a web sight is without any phone number-Have written many e-mail s to him but as yet nothing in return-He did live in Chelsea and was in operation and still was working some few years ago Well known in the industry with a great…

View a fresh photo feature licensed through London based photo agency Panos Pictures from photographer Kieran Dodds who visited Carron Valley Forest between Edinburgh and Glasgow, where a life-size replica of a medieval fortified Scottish village is home to an unlikely group of people dedicated to educating others about their…

Good article here – Guardian online reports: The corrections column co-editor on… the challenge of writing picture captions …Mistakes sometimes happen because the subeditor writing a caption is working from sketchy information provided by the photographer, many of whom loathe the job of adding caption material, according to the Guardian’s…

Magnum have launched a great new feature on their blog pages – Ask Magnum. ‘A few weeks ago, we solicited your questions for Bruce Gilden on Facebook and Twitter. We picked a handful that we thought would spark some discussion and sat down with Bruce at the kitchen table of…

Daily News Los Angeles reports: Judge sets trial date in paparazzo vs. Lindsay Lohan ….’Grigor Balyan alleges Lohan’s driver, Paola Demara, ran into him in Hollywood two years ago as he was taking photographs of the actress. He is claiming medical expenses of about $16,500’….. full article here dailynews.com…

Asian stock photography site Photokore is offering its members a special offer during the month of August…. more on AboutTheImage.com now…