UK based photo agency Rex Features will be sponsoring the CEPIC Congress 2012 Welcome Reception at The Truman Brewery in London on Tuesday 15th May 2012. CEPIC’s President, Christina Vaughan commented: “It is an honour to have Rex’s support in London to welcome our guests to one of the most…
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–pan exclusive–if you use this article please credit and link back to www.photoarchivenews.com Tues 14 feb: PAN reader David Herrod writes: My connection with Imagestate goes back to when it was called Images. The transition to Imagestate went smoothly. However, recent events have left me high and dry. No notice…
14 Feb 2012: Reports coming in suggest the founder of phototime Jun Chen LI has left the company and is pursuing other opportunities. More about Jun Chen LI here – (open in Chrome browser to translate option) Update 13 Feb 2012: Reports coming in via email suggest Phototime may be…
Updated Feb 14 2012: Cassie Marsden announcement: It is with great sadness that I have to announce the sudden death of Simon. I will continue to run the Marsden Archive as usual, and we will reopen for business on Wed 22nd Feb. Sales of limited edition prints and signed properties…
Vogue publisher Condé Nast are online with a company time-line including the first Vogue full colour photo cover… more details and the link at our Press Photo History Project…
Hearst-Rodale UK (Nat Mags) has launching the first edition of Women’s Health in the UK. ‘Women’s Health is a completely unique offering in the women’s market, pioneering health and fitness as a lifestyle, with a fresh approach to psychology, sex, relationships, fashion, beauty and celebrity. Women’s Health emulates the ethos…
Whitney Houston’s Last Appearance? LA based photo agency Splash are online with a video of what appears to be Whitney Houston’s last public appearance shot two days ago as she made her way to her car after a night out. They say: ‘In this video taken on the night of…
6.00am UK: Rex Features in the UK, dpa Picture Alliance in Germany and AP Images are first up with time-line photo galleries Whitney Houston who died in Los Angeles yesterday. Click on the agency page shots above to visit the gallery.…
Journalist Jonathan Kent has written an account of his negotiations with a couple of UK newspapers after they ‘lifted’ an image from his blog. …’This week a couple of newspapers ‘borrowed’ a photo of Mary-Ann Ochota from this site without asking. Mary Ann got caught up in a bit of…
Guest Editor at the Getty Images blog rock photographer Janette Beckman waxes nostalgic. ‘Londoner Janette Beckman began her career at the dawn of punk rock working for The Face and Melody Maker. She shot bands from The Clash to The Specials as well as three Police album covers. We asked…
Corbis contributing photographer Samuel Aranda has won the 2012 World Press Photo of the year for his work on Yemen for the New York Times. Aranda shot the Yemeni Pro-democracy activists taking to the streets, protesting a decision to grant President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity. Samuel Aranda worked anonymously in…
UK photo library FLPA recorded three usages of the same image (above) in three newspapers websites on one day this week – see the usages here: The Sun Daily Mail Daily Telegraph Photo caption: Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris) adult, with Sociable Weaver (Philetairus socius) flock, feeding on biscuit from…
Couple of new members of staff at photo agency Plainpicture – in fact you can see all the staff on an animated Team page which also shows where each person sits in the office….…
Following our last report PAN reporter John Balean attended the latest meeting between BAPLA and the IPO – Intellectual Property Office last week at the Press Association HQ in Victoria, London. BAPLA discusses the Digital Copyright Exchange Feasibility Study with Richard Hooper BAPLA held another pro-active meeting with the IPO…
Frankfurt based photo agency dpa Picture Alliance have visited the production line of the iconic Porsche Carrera 911 S on it’s production line in Stuttgart Zuffenhausen. They say “Our photographer had the chance to get a glimpse for you on the production line of this sports car”. See the image…
above – the ‘commercial’ press photo – used on a book cover Martin Bailey at The Art Newspaper reports: ‘A new book by Munira Mirza, the culture adviser to the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has been withdrawn because of a legal problem over a Tate image on its cover…..Mirza…
Stock photography community Dreamstime has announced that its site is now accessible in an additional five new languages: Chinese, Greek, Polish, Russian and Swedish. Search here: Dreamstime…
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent at the Guardian.co.uk reports : ‘The private lives of celebrities are of legitimate interest to the media, the European court of human rights (ECHR) has ruled in landmark judgments involving a cocaine-possessing German TV actor and Princess Caroline of Monaco.’ … read his article here:…