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Busy Berline based image licensing agency Favorite Picture have launched the new year with a massive new collection of beauty pictures. They say: ‘Our international photographers, along with photographers from our English twin agency Lickerish, now share their portfolios of beauty, portrait, make-up, modeling, hair-style and conceptual pictures. View &…

Picture desks using the media search platform i-Picturemaxx in the UK and Germany can now access an immediate photo & video feed from celebrity photo agencies Optic Photos and Pacific Coast News. They join a fast growing rich photo base from photo agencies like Cobris’ Splash, Goff Photos, Big Pictures,…

Photo media services company K&R Media are online with an updated website. K&R Media specialises in photo production, picture researche, holiday or other temporary replacements, text and story inquiries, approval and permissions for publishers and advertising agency’s. Owner Carola Strohoff told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning: “The new site now carries a…

UK based exclusive rights managed travel picture library 4Corners Images are online with a new London images gallery. They say: As the eyes of the world focus on London for the 2012 Olympic Games, we’re proud to share our new views of the capital’. View and license the images here…

Sharon McTeir – Creative Publishing Services. ‘In 2005 I set up my own company offering design, typsetting and picture research services. I have worked for companies such as Hodder Education, Harper Collins, Larousse, Canongate, Birlinn, Chambers Harrap, Leclie and Leckie, Mainstream and Whittles on a wide range of projects. I…

New views at large-format rights managed photo agency Panoramic Images include Long and Skinny, Washington DC, New Photographers, Chicago Views…. Explore and license here.…

Hannah Hess (photo above), 44, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the european pressphoto agency epa. She will be taking over from current Editor-in-Chief Cengiz Seren, 58, in the spring. Cengiz is leaving to take up a ‘new challenge’, after a total of 19 years with epa. “Hannah is our ideal…

UK base photo library Topfoto are online with a gallery package of historic world events in pictures : March 1962 – this gallery is part of their ongoing feature ’50 Years Ago’, a monthly pictorial source for picture researchers and photo editors.…

UK photo agency Photoshot has launched an interesting photo packed blog called: Photoshot Live – Features include: Showbiz, Bizarre News, Music, Style and an Upcoming Coverage diary.…

Above one of the clauses in the ‘Byelaws for Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square Garden’ Posted on the Greater London Authority website : Confirmation of Byelaws for Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square Garden Closing Date: 29 February, 2012 On 25 January 2012 the Greater London Authority (the ‘GLA’) made the…

Spotted this on a Twitter feed – ‘NEW! Rex Features launch Corporate and PR photography service‘ They say:’With a prestigious history spanning over half a century, Rex provides a daily service of news and entertainment photos to the worldwide media. We also offer a bespoke and cost-effective PR and corporate…

LSQTV: ‘Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy hit back at Fox News during a UK press conference following the London Premiere of their new film. Fox had publically criticized the film for supposedly pushing a ‘dangerous liberal agenda’ at kids.’…

Malaga based photo library Arcangel – specialists in supplying inspirational, creative and unique stock imagery – are online their latest image upload, 4000 images. Browse and licence the new images here.…

‘SussexPostcards.info is a website for collectors of Sussex postcards. Here you will find information about many of the people in Sussex who published postcards between 1900 and 1980, and also examples of the types of cards they produced. National publishers are not covered because most are already well described in…

They say: ‘The Photographers’ Gallery will unveil its new home for international and British photography in the heart of London’s Soho on Saturday 19 May 2012. The Gallery’s opening will mark the conclusion of its ambitious £8.9 million capital campaign, which has been generously supported by Arts Council England’s Lottery…

An online petition has been posted at Change.org calling for the removal of photographer Ami Vitale from the jury of the World Press Photo competition 2012 Reads: ‘Photojournalism is about telling the truth. An unethical photographer cannot be on the jury of the world’s most prestigious photojournalism competition. Yes, Ami…

UK based ‘Rock n Roll’ photographer Amy Barwell now has images available for licence at specialist music photo library The Hell Gate – owner Helen Giano says: “Ami Barwell’s portrait of Ian Brown (photo above) made us stand up and notice. We’ve been admirers for a while now and are…