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‘William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) is widely considered to be the founder of photography. His personal archive, currently in private hands, is now up for sale for an estimated price of £2.2 million. The Bodleian Libraries have been awarded £1.2 million by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and have until…

Click to watch: Steve is the one lifting the cup! – comments on a postcard please… Steve Behan, Picture Manager at Carlton Publishing Group in London sent me this: Hi Will, Hope all is well with you. If you’re frozen to death or snowed in you might want to cheer…

Upon realizing that we are living among the last generation of German concentration camp survivors, VII photographer Maciek Nabrdalik set out not just to capture their portraits but to talk with them, to ask them questions and through their wisdom, gain a better understanding of the human scale of an…

Wildlife, floral, landscapes, fantasy and fashion art licensing stock agency Meiklejohn Graphics Licensing will be attending the following Trade Shows: BRITISH TOY FAIR – London – 22nd-24th January PAPERWORLD – Frankfurt – 27th-29th January SPRINGFAIR – NEC, Birmingham, UK – 3rd-7th February TOYFAIR – Nuremburg – 2nd-4th February See them…

A great resource here, a forward planner from UK photo library giant Mary Evans showing upcoming First World War important anniversary 2013 / 2014 with related images. They say:‘To help you with your projects for the 100th anniversary of the First World War in 2014, we have put together a…

Getty Images have launched of The Feed by Getty Images, an innovative use of the Getty Images’ Connect API applied to social media platforms. This new software integration showcases Getty Images’ content based on trending topics and conversation for up-to-the-minute news, sport and entertainment imagery. They say: ‘Leveraging Twitter’s API…

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…