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PA Group Up 85% On Profits – ‘A Good Year For News’

Guardian.co.uk reports: ‘The parent company of the Press Association reported a surge of 85% in pre-tax profits last year, prompting a 27% pay boost for chief executive Clive Marshall to over £800,000 and the first dividend for shareholders in four years’….read on here: guardian.co.uk…

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Call To Entry: YPA 2012 Mentoring Programme

Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA) has opened up a call to entry to apply for their 2012 Mentoring Programme. The Mentoring Programme links young photographers with leading photographers and picture editors/ art buyers, teaching them how to work to a brief while honing their technical skills and their creative approach. Deadline:…

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Clipcanvas Adds Customisable Royalty Free Music Stock

Royalty-free stock footage agency Clipcanvas are now offering customisable royalty free production music alongside their 325,000 royalty-free stock video clips.The offering starts off with nearly 4,000 music tracks from royalty free music and music soundtrack solutions agency SmartSound. They say; The offering starts off with nearly 4,000 music tracks –…

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The Afghan Photojournalists

aljazeera.com have a great article on their Features page covering a group of photojournalists operating and reporting from Afghanistan. ….Hossaini is one of a handful of young, talented Afghan photographers who, despite scarce funding, have gained international prominence with the encouragement of exceptional mentors. These photographers are now showing their…

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Google Agrees Scanning ‘Opt In’ For French Book Publishers

BBC reports: Google has reached a deal with a publishing group to allow the scanning and publishing of books online – ending a six-year legal battle. A court ruled in 2009 that the search company was in breach of copyright infringement after it digitised a number of French books… read…

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File FX Launches New Photo Buyers Contact Databases – Europe/N.America

Creative and editorial picture buyers database specialists File FX are celebrating 25 years in business with the launch of new and extended creative databases. The databases are: • USA databases featuring Advertising Agencies, Design, Book & Magazine Editorial as well as the Corporate Sector. Select up to 18,000 companies with…

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iStockalypse Berlin – Open

iStockalypse has landed in Berlin for three days of stocky stuff. The iStockalypse was born in early 2005, as an official multi-day iStockphoto photography event. Several times a year, contributing artists and photographers from the international iStock community come together to collaborate, share knowledge, and exchange tricks of the stock…

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Sports Photo Agency Magazine SEEN – Issue 6

Photo agency Cleva Media have launched Issue 6 of their online magazine SEEN Sport Magazine It’s free to view and packed full of stunning independent sports photography and original articles, the latest edition of the magazine content not seen in the mainstream media including: • Saul “Canelo” Alvarez – The…

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Sports Photo Agency Boss Wins Best Photographer – 20 Football Seasons

Congratulations to Photographer Mark Leech, Managing director of UK based independent photo agency Offside Sports Photography, has won the Barclays Photographer of the 20 Seasons award. More than 50 of the best professional football photographers submitted hundreds of pictures from all seasons of the Premier League and the judges decided…

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Niche Photo Library Launches: 5k+ Stock Images – 1900 to 1980

Based in Rome, Italy Colaimages has launched online offering more than 5,000 B&W photographs from the 1900 to 1980 available to license. After 2 years of preparation, Colaimages.com is eventually online. “It is a new website specifically thought for image professionals”, announces Marco Colazingari, coordinator of the project. The library…

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PA Images Launches First eBook – Diamond Jubilee – Free

The Press Association have published their first eBook – above screens- The book celebrates the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and includes 250 images from the Press Association (PA) images and includes 15 image galleries. Tony Watson, Managing Director, Press Association commented: “PA has been charting the key moments, people and events…

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Go See: The Lion’s Roar: Sir Winston Churchill

photos above – Topfoto – click each for more info & to license For the Eden Valley Summer Festival, the negative collections of TopFoto have been combed for rare photographs of Sir Winston Churchill, the Queen’s first Prime Minister and the Eden Valley’s most famous resident. Opened Thursday 31 May…