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Getty Images London have announced the promotion of Andrew Saunders to the position of Senior Vice President, Creative Content. He will be overseeing the development of contemporary imagery, video and music at the stock giant. Saunders predicts that the proliferation of stills, video and the growth of social media has…

“Photo Finish: The Sports Photography of Neil Leifer” opens today in Washington DC.…

PhotoArchiveNews.com subscriber Australian based photojournalist Renee Melides is back in Brisbane after an internship with the VII Photo Agency office in Paris and shooting personal photo stories in Sri Lanka. The stories included range from daily life in Sri Lanka, male prostitution, tsunami survivors, cricket coaching clinics and more. To…

UK based RM photo library Loop Images are online with a new site which features new branding and new content. Co-founder Paul Mortlock said: ‘Today marks the re-launch of Loop into an ever more competitive market place, but we feel we have the website, content and momentum to drive us…

A new series of ads from clothing company Benetton showing world leaders kissing on the mouth has caused a stir at the Vatican… read on here DailyMail – See see how Benetton are pushing the ad here…

This week on our US stock photo industry news site: About The Image: – Stock Moves Sascha Weis – Dreamstime Holiday Season Campaign – “Give Thanks, Give Back” – Granger Adds Increases ullstein bild Collection – 35,000 images – Job Vacancy: Digital Assets Librarian – Oakland University Read on: www.abouttheimage.com…

California based photo library Image Collect now boasts over 3 million micro-stock celebrity images with a target of 5 million images online by early 2012. CEO at the library Ryan Born told PhotoArchiveNews.com; “In addition to the growth of our library, we just rolled out a site redesign and moved…

Condition ONE Demo from Danfung Dennis on Vimeo Technology company Condition ONE have launched their first ‘immersive vídeo’ app for Apple iPads. They say: ‘Condition ONE combines the power of the still image, the narrative of films and the engagement of tactile experiences to create a new immersive language that…

Other than getting paid for photo usages the tearsheet is vital visual proof that you are producing the right material – publications are publishing you and your contributors are seeing their images published through you – great marketing all round! If you upload tearsheet’s to your agency site, send me…

Photographer Ed Robinson at London based photo agency OneRedEye has just completed a commission for the the Financial Times shooting portraits for the FT ‘Women at the Top’ project.…

The Crystal Palace was erected in London to house the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations of 1851. Florence based photo library Scala Archives invites you to discover its history on the occasion of the 160th Anniversary.…

– Big Pictures, Caters News and Danita Delimont Stock are now available on the My-Picturemaxx platform. – Topfoto Gallery, Edenbridge: Illustrating the Point – works by John Norris Wood, Tony Hart, Helen Allingham, and more, on sale.…

‘Two Tides’ is a collection of seascapes by established photographer Adrian Turner available now through UK based photo library Millennim Images.They say: “Adrian explores possibilities of capturing unique moments of intense beauty and tranquility from a myriad of perspectives, using a mixture of traditional and contemporary techniques to create images…

Alfredo D’Amato a photographer at UK photo agency Panos Pictures has filed a new photostory from Tunisia – ‘Eleven months into the ‘Arab Spring’, it’s easy to forget the country where it all began and the people who led the region’s first revolution’. View and license the images here: Early…

The Associated Press is now marketing the British Movietone News archive in Europe, North America and the Middle East. The British Movietone Newsreel archive presents some of the most memorable images of the 20th Century in a fully digitized library of more than 2,000 hours and 48,000 remarkable international newsreel…

Here are links to stories involving the photo industry in the national press this week: The Independent reports: Next paparazzo to target Grant’s daughter could go to prison The Sydney Morning Herald reports: Royal photographer to sue Dinnigan over dress image…

New York based specialist music photo agency The Hell Gate is now representing a portfolio of work from photographer Sonny McCartney – they say: “While there is no such thing as a Hell Gate photograph, we would like to think that there is something close to a Hell Gate DNA.…

UK based specialist nature picture agency FLPA is giving away 30 Curly Wurlys this month. To enter the competition, please place an order for high res on FLPA’s website before 30th November, 2011. 30 lucky winners will receive their chocolate prize in early December. I have just had one delivered…