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Great access to Prince Charles on this shoot! They say: ‘Charles Prince of Wales had a keen interest in Polo from an early age always watching his father The Duke of Edinburgh play at Windsor. The Prince played his first game in 1963 aged 15, in a team captained by…

In March this year travel stock photo specialist Robert Harding World Imagery acquired Specialist Stock, one of the world’s foremost environmental image and footage collections. Owner Robert Harding has posted a ‘Founders Focus’ Q&A explaining the library’s move into footage ….How was it formed? It was set up by environmental…

Dench: I grew up where books mattered. As a photographer, the holy grail for me was, in 1990, a book and an exhibition. Stoddart: It still is, even more so, because you’re not going to get 20 pages in the Sunday Times Magazine…photographers have to find different ways of getting…

The Associated Press and a group of the world’s ‘leading entertainment photographers’ have teamed up to launch Invision a new photo agency which ‘aims to be a leader in providing inside access to the entertainment industry, offering unparalleled photographic coverage and creating new revenue streams that help support AP’s core…

PAN READER EXCLUSIVE just in from Corbis PR in the States – official announcement going out later today – thanks Jen! Great timing from Corbis as they have just announced an exclusive partnership with Sutton Images, a major name in racing imagery just ahead of this weekend’s F1 Monaco Grand…

They say: ‘Don’t want to distract you all by an angry baby, but that’s exactly what I am going to do after I tell you that we have added over 15 million images to the TinEye index bringing our index to: 2,155,840,279. Sit back, relax and click play. Enjoy! TinEye…

Last week we reported ‘UK based art, culture and historical image resource The Bridgeman Art Library are celebrating their 40th year in the stock photo business: here‘ Above is their 40th Birthday video promo, enjoy!…

The FT reported yesterday evening that Hellman & Friedman are considering a sale or IPO of Getty Images which could value the photo agency at £2.5bn. Reuters have picked up the story here Hellman & Friedman acquired Getty Images in 2008 CNBC reports: ..’Getty is most likely to draw takeover…

above: click left pic to watch how the video was made and right for the finished product Munich based food media agency StockFood is adding a new product to its extensive visual collection: instructional Recipe Videos, offered with a package of additional complementary information services. They say: ‘In food advertising…

Bruce MacKenzie has been appointed vice president of GreenLight at Corbis, focusing on Music partnerships and licensing with Global brands. They say: ‘The GreenLight division launched GreenLight Music earlier this year as the music industry’s first online sync licensing solution for popular music with the support of all four major…

Photo: CTK Photobank This in from CEPIC: London CEPIC week closed on an absolute high on Friday night with an amazing Annual Industry Party sponsored by Corbis at Somerset House where delegates were able to enjoy a fabulous exhibition organised by the prestigious World Photography Association. Afterwards, delegates danced until…

UPDATE May 18 PhotoShelter had a full house for their first UK event last night in London. PhotoShelter Chairman, Co-founder Allen Murabayashi and a panel of photo editors met photographers in What Photo Buyers Want From Photographers at Ideas Tap with Blurb The photo editor panel, put together by PhotoArchiveNews.com…

above: Cepic Congress London, Great Britain 2012. Day third, Thursday 17th, 2012 The Industry Seminar Day at London CEPIC Week will be launched by keynote speaker Dave Coplin (Director of Search for Microsoft UK’s Advertising and Online Business) at 9am. The day will offer a full interactive programme for delegates…

All CEPIC Congress photos: Peter Mlch and Rene Fluger from CTK Photobank CEPIC photographers from Czech News Agency – CTK Photobank have uploaded the first two days of the CEPIC London Congress online to view…

Today at the CEPIC Congress London the 6th edition of the Metadata / IPTC Conference Programme details here…

Andrew Fingerman VP of Marketing at PhotoShelter for the last four and a half years has been appointed Chief Executive Officer at PhotoShelter the ‘websites for serious photographers’ company. Andrew been responsible for the evolution of the PhotoShelter brand and the continuous growth of PhotoShelter customer base, which now stands…

CEPIC, PACA and the Heidelberg Research Group on the Global Stock Image Market, are carrying out the first-ever global survey of the picture industry. This survey includes more than 2,900 stock image agencies and archives worldwide. The study seeks answers to the following questions: What is the size of the…

Portfolio review with Christine Vaughan P. Foster, Ashley Jouhar, D.Taylor-Secretan, A. Capel and S. McKiernan during Photocentric Day Looks like the Alamy team are eating again, this time are making the most of the good weather in London today with a BBQ on the roof terrace at the Venue! Twitpic…