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World Press Photo invites all press photographers and photojournalists around the world to participate in the 55th World Press Photo Contest. The 2012 World Press Photo Contest is now open for entries. The deadline for submissions is 12 January 2012, 23.59 CET. Entries may be submitted online via our web…

They say: ‘The BPPA today [30 Nov] wrote to the Leveson Inquiry and asked to be added to the list of those giving evidence. We did this because of the one-way traffic from witnesses criticising photographers and because of the dreadfully lazy television journalism that has painted each and every…

On AboutTheImage.com – ‘The Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) have published a list of websites using photo library content without permission’. here…

The smart looking and feature packed new blog from Getty Images is now online. Featuring everything the photo agency is doing with images including Reportage – photojournalism, Of The Moment – the latest catwalk trends , Podcasts and PEER – new creative imagery… though the ‘Blogs We Read’ section does’t…

Royalty-free photo company 123RF will be offering video motion stock in January 2012. They have opened a stock motion video submissions channel ready for the launch. The say: ‘Recent research reports by Nielsen and Gartner shows the increasing prevalence in the use of video and video based advertisements especially in…

UK photo library Mirropix are online with a selection of images from the 1926 General Strike. Caption reads: ‘The national dispute came about after negotiations between the miners and mine owners failed over wages and the strike began on 3 May 1926. Millions obeyed the strike call bringing transport systems…

Great photo usage for London based photo agency LNP this morning in the Metro newspaper in an article reflecting a day of planned national strikes in the UK today.…

Corbis having been digging through their archives to produce this well edited slide show featuring rock band promo shots called; Shooting the band They say: ‘Rock music ain’t new, but its ear-pleasing melodies and raw howls still form the soundtracks to our lives. These promo shots and revealing candids–some from…

A picture researcher working with Pearson Publishing USA sent us this request via our US stock photo industry site AboutTheImage.com Good afternoon, Will. I’m trying to locate where the Australian Picture Library has migrated to and was wondering if you know or maybe could refer me to someone who would…

Cairo Divided is a unique text and photo essay by Guardian journalist Jack Shenker and Panos photographer Jason Larkin, who examine a city in the process of turning itself inside out. Jason used the Guardian printers but sponsored the publications himself. Jason says on his website: ‘For the last couple…

9pm 1Dec BBC4: ‘Life was an iconic weekly magazine that specialised in extraordinarily vivid photojournalism. Through its most dynamic decades, – the 40s, 50s and 60s – Life caught the spirit of America as it blossomed into a world superpower. No other magazine in the world held the photograph in…

For the past 2 years Véronique Sutra (above) has been in charge of developing multimedia clients for the Magnum Photo archive. Today she is the founder and director of Eyes In Progress which will debut its masterclass workshop program in February 2012, based in France and Spain. Each workshop will…

The deadline for the fifth International Garden Photographer of the Year competition is tomorrow (30 Nov). Don’t miss the chance to be part of this premier photography competition.Top prize £5000 plus cash prizes for all category winners. £2000 for portfolio winner plus Royal Photographic Society Gold Medal. Here…

Stock footage agency Video Blocks is giving 7 days of complimentary access to download ‘anything you want’ from their archive of over 30,000 clips of footage, backgrounds, production music and more. small print reads: Just create a username and password to download: You can download 20 clips per day :…

From Flora Smith, partner, TopFoto.co.uk It is with great sadness that we hear the news of the death of Ken Russell. TopFoto has represented Ken since the negatives of his 1950s photographs came to light in our archive in 2006 and during this time, Ken and his adored wife Elise…

CEO Ray Flemings founder/CEO at Stipple – ‘an in-picture labeling tool that allows publishers to label and share any person, place or thing in the photos on their site’ – explains the service on Scobleizer’s You Tube Channel. By activating Stipple on a site, publishers offer their users a new…

Photographer Jay Brooks has joined UK based photo agency Camera Press. They say: ‘Jay shoots energetic reportage-style work for a variety of fashion and advertising clients, as well as music and celebrity portraiture. Allowing this loose, relaxed reportage style to influence his portraits, he captures something of his subject’s personality…

PAN copy-editor Marc Ballantine (10 October 1969 – 14 December 2011 R.I.P.) spotted this resource: TV Ark – ‘TVARK is an online TV museum. The site is intended as a tribute to the work of television presentation and graphics, and to preserve a slice of our social history. Through images…