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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…

Photo agencies first up with photo timelines for Vidal Sassoon who has died aged 84: click the images or link below to the photos… NI Syndication Topfoto Sassoon Rex Photo Timeline is also online Eyevine AP Images Camera Press…

A new exhibition of images by Magnum Photographer René Burri opens from the 11th May – 9th June at Atlas Gallery. Some of his most unprecedented iconic images are exhibited here for the first time at monumental sizes, whereas Burri has usually been known to exhibit his frames small, black…

The date for the 3rd Fotofringe London event has been released: April 24 2013 Register your interest in exhibiting Here View Fotofringe London 2012 Here PhotoArchiveNews.com is Media Partner to Fotofringe London…

Today, creative photo agency Fotolia releases the 6th installment in their Ten Collection – ‘Once again you will gain instant access to over 100 files and see how each individual graphic component plays a part in creating the final image. You will not only have access to the file in…

Reuters photographer Kevin Lamarque recounts his recent trip to Afghanistan with President Obama… Read on at AboutTheImage.com…

Getty Images newly appointed branding agency R/GA in London have reworked the ‘Watermark’ Watch above….and what it looks like below… very cool! Updated 30 May: Getty have posted a small feature on the the new watermark – they are looking or feedback.…

600 participants from five continents are booked into the CEPIC Congress at the Truman Brewery, London from 15 to 18 May. If you are interested in booking the last Table, please write to Carlos Vicente at [email protected]…