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New Zealand based Becky Masters offers a full picture research service to international clients covering: Creative researching for a single cover image to the management and research of lists containing thousands of images, copyright clearance, shoot coordination, project management of large image sourcing projects. Becky is the latest picture researcher…

Celebrity photo agency WENN has just appointed Joe Sene to the role of Group Head of Photo Content & Sales. Joe will be responsible for all aspects of WENN’s photo division working closely with WENN CEO Lloyd Beiny who told PhotoArchiveNews.com: “I am very pleased to welcome Joe to WENN…

Corbis has just launched GreenLight Music, the music industry’s first online sync licensing solution for popular music. Launching with the support of four major music companies, the new service offers a simple, one stop solution for creative and marketing professionals to secure usage rights to iconic music for a broad…

PAN EXCLUSIVE! Elbie Lebrecht owner at UK based music & arts picture library Lebrecht sent PAN this shot of her and her husband Norman at Union Station, Los Angeles last week. The crutches? – a broken bone in her foot – Elbie told PAN on the 8th January “I am…

New York based portrait, lifestyle and beauty photo agency August have announced a partnership with modds, a photography agency dedicated to the production and distribution of celebrity portraits, in France. modds roster of photographers includes: Jerome Bonnet, Ludovic Careme, Vincent Ferrane, Roberto Frankenberg, Samuel Kirszenbaum, Antoine Le Grand, Vincent Lignier,…

UK stock photo library FLPA are online with a gallery of some of the rights managed images they have sold today – HERE…

photo: Stephen Webb – 2011 RHS Photographer of the Year The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has launched its global search for the most inspirational and creative garden photography. Amateur and professional photographers of all ages are invited to submit their entries online, for the chance to be crowned RHS Photographer…

Mail Online reports: ….’She was shocked to discover a photograph of her face had been lifted from her fashion blog and placed on the front of a Tesco girl’s sweater.’ ‘She is now taking on the supermarket giants because they used her the image without permission and printed it on…

Russian photo agency RIA Novosti are online and uploading directly from this evening’s protest on Pushkin Square. Extensive coverage of post-election events and demonstrations in Moscow and other cities is being added all the time. Note: translation of captions is ongoing… here: visualrian.ru…

On January 29 Martin Orpen spotted a possible copyright issue over the British Library claiming copyright of scanned images of newspaper pages published on the British Newspaper Archive site…. Full report on our Press Photo History Project…

In a video posted on celebrity news site TMZ a car driver is clearly concentrating on watching the paparazzi shooting Rachel Hunter than the traffic lights…. watch the crash unfold here: TMZ Thanks to James for spotting this one…

New UK photo library at publisher Future Media – Future MediaStore – is online with a set of exclusive cycling images. They say: ‘The Tour de France is fast approaching! Be inspired by our fantastic Cycling collection.’ Cycling images are now available from some of our most popular magazines including…

– iStock Open To iGoogle Users here – ‘Asian Flavors’ photo contest – Photokore here – People Moves: Marci Brennan Is At Everett here…

New York & LA based photo agency Trunk Archive has announced they now represent the Condé Nast International archives of Patrick Demarchelier for worldwide image licensing. They say: ‘Patrick Demarchelier is regarded as one of the preeminent fashion, beauty and portrait photographers of today. His images have appeared on hundreds…

‘One year on from the uprising in Egypt that led to the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, Foto8 presents an exhibition of photography documenting the unrest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during February 2011.’ Guy Martin and Ivor Prickett ~ The Last Days of Mubarak Foto8 Gallery 1 – 5 Honduras Street…

SHE BOP A LULA will feature 70 fabulous pictures celebrating some of the most successful and creative female singers over the last six decades, from Lady Day (Billie Holiday) to Lady Gaga. The photographs, some never seen before, captured by 40 talented and award-winning women photographers, will be a mix…

Glorious UK based world-renowned supplier of quality horticultural/botanical rights-managed images Garden World Images GWI are first out with an invitation to it’s picture buying client base for this years fotofringe London event. PAN is just waiting to hear if they will be running their very popular competition again…. 😉 See…

Two brand new video channels from Getty Images – 820,000 videos and 500.000 creative clips – are now available to i-picturemaxx users in the UK and Germany.…