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This in from celebrity photo agency WENN… **Exclusive** Sly Steven Tyler has found a new way to let the paparazzi know he’s watching them watching him – he has started posing with a camera phone snapshot of the snapper. The rocking American Idol judge caught a WENN photographer during a…

Photo: David Ofield photographed by Richard Bond David Ofield Picture Editor of the London Evening Standard is the new chairman of judges for the annual UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards. The Awards are established as a premier event celebrating the best of British photo-journalism in association with some of the…

The Press Association, has appointed Milica Lamb (above) as its new Picture Editor. In her new role Lamb will oversee and direct PA’s substantial photographic output on a day-to-day basis, as well as around major events – including the London 2012 Olympics for which PA is Host National News Agency.…

Live Auction: 24 March 2012 – Professional Photo Archive: Carl Simon, Düsseldorf, c. 1910-20 Approx. 23,000 glass slides (9,5 x 8,5 cm and 8,5 x 8,5 cm) with 2 original projectors, accessories, 15 lenses and many scripts, glass slides for the most part hand-painted. Here some motifs: Rome, The Montblanc,…

Full multimedia stock photo platform Pond5 are now offering a search of 1 million stock video clips. The millionth stock video, entitled Hong Kong Night Heavy Traffic, is a timelapse shot uploaded by Hong Kong-based artist Pui Yuen Ng. To celebrate, Pond5 will be paying its artists 100% royalties for…

from Lewis Whyld on Vimeo. UK based photojournalist Lewis Whyld has uploaded a walk through the photo editing facilities on the new iPad.…

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…