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Singapore based factual television entertainment production company Beach House Pictures is celebrating its seventh birthday by hiring new Head of Production & Business Development Paul Stevens – photo above – Paul arrives at BHP during a vibrant growth period. In April, the company collected two Silver World Medals and three…

Red Edge Images booked a listing on our Picture Libraries and Agencies page last week – we asked owner Jan Bickerton to introduce the library to PhotoArchiveNews.com readers. Red Edge Images is a boutique image library specialising in high quality Rights Managed images for publishers worldwide, mainly for fiction book…

Updated: 30 May 2012 Websites The Register and GeekWire report Corbis has been ordered to pay out $12million in damages to InfoFlows. March 28 2012 Legal.com has court papers in a the CORBIS CORPORATION v. STONE case: ‘Corbis Corporation (“Corbis”) and Steve Stone, through his company InfoFlows Corporation (“InfoFlows”), entered…

Corbis ‘invested’ in citizen photo’journalism agency Demotix last year – the Demotix feed is now avaiable directly through Corbis via a new offering ‘Demotix Wire subscription’ which caters to both local and national news outlets and provides up to 250 breaking news images per day from Demotix contributors around the…

PAN reader photographer Katherine Kay-Mouat has an exhibition titled PORTRAIT OF AN ISLAND at the Guernsey Photography Festival which opened yesterday until 22 June. Katherine’s images are at Jimmy’s Cafe, St James College Street, St Peter Port – 10AM To 4PM, Mon To Sat – it’s Free to view. Other…

UPDATED: MAY 24: An hour after posting a ‘Searching For’ request on the Press Photo History Project – we had this in from PPHP reader Mike Conway Senior Editor at EPA Europe: ‘According to my source in Athens it is more likely to have been United New Photographers agency which…

London based youth culture photo library PYMCA is now representing a new collection of images by photographer Graham Smith from his book We Can Be Heroes We Can Be Heroes charts the rise of London’s club scene from punk in the late 1970s to the New Romantics in the 1980s…

Great access to Prince Charles on this shoot! They say: ‘Charles Prince of Wales had a keen interest in Polo from an early age always watching his father The Duke of Edinburgh play at Windsor. The Prince played his first game in 1963 aged 15, in a team captained by…

In March this year travel stock photo specialist Robert Harding World Imagery acquired Specialist Stock, one of the world’s foremost environmental image and footage collections. Owner Robert Harding has posted a ‘Founders Focus’ Q&A explaining the library’s move into footage ….How was it formed? It was set up by environmental…

Dench: I grew up where books mattered. As a photographer, the holy grail for me was, in 1990, a book and an exhibition. Stoddart: It still is, even more so, because you’re not going to get 20 pages in the Sunday Times Magazine…photographers have to find different ways of getting…

The Associated Press and a group of the world’s ‘leading entertainment photographers’ have teamed up to launch Invision a new photo agency which ‘aims to be a leader in providing inside access to the entertainment industry, offering unparalleled photographic coverage and creating new revenue streams that help support AP’s core…

PAN READER EXCLUSIVE just in from Corbis PR in the States – official announcement going out later today – thanks Jen! Great timing from Corbis as they have just announced an exclusive partnership with Sutton Images, a major name in racing imagery just ahead of this weekend’s F1 Monaco Grand…

They say: ‘Don’t want to distract you all by an angry baby, but that’s exactly what I am going to do after I tell you that we have added over 15 million images to the TinEye index bringing our index to: 2,155,840,279. Sit back, relax and click play. Enjoy! TinEye…

Last week we reported ‘UK based art, culture and historical image resource The Bridgeman Art Library are celebrating their 40th year in the stock photo business: here‘ Above is their 40th Birthday video promo, enjoy!…

The FT reported yesterday evening that Hellman & Friedman are considering a sale or IPO of Getty Images which could value the photo agency at £2.5bn. Reuters have picked up the story here Hellman & Friedman acquired Getty Images in 2008 CNBC reports: ..’Getty is most likely to draw takeover…

above: click left pic to watch how the video was made and right for the finished product Munich based food media agency StockFood is adding a new product to its extensive visual collection: instructional Recipe Videos, offered with a package of additional complementary information services. They say: ‘In food advertising…

Bruce MacKenzie has been appointed vice president of GreenLight at Corbis, focusing on Music partnerships and licensing with Global brands. They say: ‘The GreenLight division launched GreenLight Music earlier this year as the music industry’s first online sync licensing solution for popular music with the support of all four major…

Photo: CTK Photobank This in from CEPIC: London CEPIC week closed on an absolute high on Friday night with an amazing Annual Industry Party sponsored by Corbis at Somerset House where delegates were able to enjoy a fabulous exhibition organised by the prestigious World Photography Association. Afterwards, delegates danced until…