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Hi Will, Happy New Year! I saw your top 10 article on Splash top sales in 2012. While we are far away from being that big as Splash, we did put together a top 5 of our top stories in 2012. Macaulay Culkin was a big one on TMZ.COM, while…

Splash News & Picture Agency have just sent me these photos, rounding up their top 10 selling celebrity photo packages of 2012 …v.surprised no other agency/library has put anything together ↑ Prince Harry along with friends in an exclusive, heavily guarded, VIP bungalow at Wet Republic in Las Vegas |…

Photoshelter are straight back into the photo marketing arena for 2013 with another free business guide 10 Branding Secrets for Photographers “It’s no secret that competition in the photography industry has gotten fierce. But what makes your photography business stand out from the crowd? First and foremost, it starts with…

Media law expert Charles Swan a partner at photo industry law firm Swan Turton reports: The Government has published its plans for further copyright exceptions in line with recommendations in the Hargreaves Review. It intends to bring the following exceptions into force in October 2013: details here…

‘London is becoming the top summer destination for super-rich Arab tourists and their supercars, but many Knightsbridge and Chelsea residents are now complaining of sleepless nights C4…But the ‘carparazzi’ are loving it! ‘ This Channel 4 documentary -by Oblong Films, Bristol- provides an insight into the influx of supercars and…

Dear Will, Please find as requested a few old photos of Central Press staff from 1965 to 1970, Regards, Alan Coomes Alan is on the right looking for a bus back to Fleet Street…. View all photos on the Press Photo History site Alan heads up the Central Press cricket…

UPDATED above: Mike at the Picture Editors’ Guild Awards 2012 – by PPHP Reader Mike Conway – currently a photo editor at EPA – writes: It was started in the early 1900s by a man called Wallenstein (spelling could be off). Like many of the picture agencies of the time…

McCullin Directed by Jacqui Morris and David Morris – Curzon Cinema Soho London…

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…