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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…

Photo agency Fotolia has received a $150 million growth equity investment. Full report on our U.S. site AboutTheImage.com now…

UK based art, culture and historical image resource The Bridgeman Art Library are celebrating their 40th year in the stock photo business this week. Harriet Bridgeman founded the company in 1972 and has watched her idea grow into a global enterprise. ‘We started with £500 and five hundred transparencies in…

Photojournalism festival Visa Pour L’Image – Perpignan, France has released the preliminary 2012 event programme Runs 1 – 16 September. Pro week is 3 – 9 September.…

Today in New York Christie’s is holding its first-ever sale of contemporary photojournalism prints in conjunction with Friends of Anton The auction will showcase outstanding, signed, mostly editioned prints of work by a select group of acclaimed photographers. In April of last year, the photojournalism community lost a very talented…

Los Angeles-based based celebrity photo agency FameFlynet have confirmed a network of affiliate agencies throughout Europe stepping up their aim to be a ‘dominant force’ in celebrity photo delivery. This just in to the PAN office: BEVERLY HILLS, Ca. May 15th, 2012 – Building on the successful merger that recently…

May 15 The PAN shout-out resulted in the researcher getting the image request below (May 9) and the images licensed! New request from the same company: We are also searching for newspaper articles (probably tabloid) from the period in which Mark Thatcher went missing (12th-15th Jan 1982) along the following…

Shutterstock Founder & CEO Jon Oringer (he started the company with his own digital photos in 2003) announced on the photo agency blog yesterday : ‘I am pleased to share that today we filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a formal document that describes our business and…

Media Mode in Australia are online with a new website at www.media-mode.com Co founder Brendan Beirne told PhotoArchiveNews.com over the weekend: “We started Media Mode a couple of years ago, I worked for agencies and newspapers in London for around 25 years and was the UK Nikon Royal photographer of…

ImageBrief, the photo-on-demand company have expanded their offices to the UK and the U.S. Launched a year ago in Australia by stock photo agency owner Meg Moss and her partner Simon ImageBrief has been a hit for creatives wanting to find a unique shot for a client’s campaign. The idea…

Corbis are offering a couple of new stock photo collections in thier premium commercial offering. The collections, which feature over 70,000 new images include… read on at AboutTheImage.com…

Horst Faas holding the UK Picture Editors’ Guild Chairman’s Award for his contribution to the industry awarded in 2011. Photo: Piced.net Remembering Horst. Horst was an early supporter of Photo Archive News and a major inspiration behind the Press Photo History Project. He called me from his office (at the…

from the Panos Pictures blog: ‘Panos photographer Robin Hammond has been working on a long-term project about Zimbabwe for the past 2 years. Around 21 April 2012, he was arrested in the South of the country while photographing near the border with South Africa. After over two weeks in a…