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This image of Elephants at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s reintroduction centres at Ithumba, in the remote north of Tsavo East National Park has landed UK photo agency Specialist Stock it’s fourth image usage in the Guardian newspapers Eyewitness photo feature. – the credit reads: Mick Baines and Maren Reichelt…

Picture desks using the media search platform i-Picturemaxx will now benefit from a new celebrity photo feed from paparazzi photo agency Splash News. Splash started uploading directly to the platform on Jan 1st. They join several other agencies in the UK now available on i-picturemaxx including: Goff Photos, Big Pictures,…

The say “The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and brightsolid online publishing to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library’s vast collection over the next 10 years”. We have scanned millions of pages of historical newspapers and made them available online…

Magnum photographer Eve Arnold has died. A gallery featuring photos of Eve and her work are online at MagnumPhotos.com. The Guardian are online with an obituary here guardian.co.uk…

Europe wide ‘Night Club & Late Night Bar’ promotions group Sintilate are looking for Photographers: Photographer positions are available to catch those special moment in our parties. You will need to be available to work weekends and week nights. details here sintillate.co.uk…

The Society of Editors in the UK have opened entries to ‘The Press Awards for 2011’ today. The Awards will celebrate the best of British national newspaper journalism in 2011. There are a total of 33 categories of awards including Photographer Of The Year and Sports Photographer Of The Year.…

The new logo (right) reflects both brands Celebrity photo agency Flynet Pictures and Fame Pictures have merged. A meesage on the newly created ‘FameFlynet’ website reads: FamePictures, Inc. and Flynet Pictures have been independently successful in the business for many years. FameFlynet is now one of the largest and most…

Ashish Raje a contributing photojournalist at India photo agency FotoCorp has won a National Foundation of India Fellowship with a photo feature covering the declining textile mills of Mumbai. Mumbai’s Mills: From spinning cloth to spinning money The mills once provided livelihoods to thousands of workers. Now very few mills…

Time’s LightBox spotlights some of the best photobooks of the year as chosen by a group of photographers and photography experts from around around the world…. and of course a few from the photo editors of TIME. See the books here Flagged up by Peter at PhotographicLibraries.com – thanks…

Paparazzi E.L. Woody is featured on a CNN documentary (above) and again on 3rd Jan on Showbiz Tonight also on CNN. Thanks Brad for flagging this one.…

The John Birdsall Social Issues Photo Library at the Press Association for the last few years will represented by Photofusion from 1st January 2012 – if you have a login for the library at PA you will need to reregister.…

The Associated Press have opened an office in Pyongyang but the office opening party has had to be delayed for a while… The Miami Herald takes up the story: …..When Kathleen Carroll, AP’s executive editor, and Tom Curley, AP’s president and chief executive, were en route to Pyongyang from Beijing…

Here are a few more Christmas greetings we have had from photo agencies and picture libraries. Click through the card to visit the library. See more here from yesterday’s upload. – Thanks all!…

Canada – Design Pics Inc, headquartered in Edmonton, Canada has announced it’s acquisition of First Light Associated Photographers Ltd., a Canadian based photo agency.…

London based photo agency Eyevine has announced the representation of Amsterdam based agency NOOR for the UK. NOOR photographers are: Nina Berman, Philip Blenkinsop, Pep Bonet, Andrea Bruce, Giancarlo Ceraudo, Alixandra Fazzina, Jan Grarup, Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Kadir van Lohuizen, Jon Lowenstein, Francesco Zizola. David Leverton, eyevine co-founder says…

Stock photo agency Dreamstime reports that it’s customer base has grown from 350,000 users in 2007 to more than 4.2 million this year. The agency started in 2004 boast 12 million photo’s online 300,000 of which are free. Focusing on those customers, Dreamstime now offers geo-tagged images (above screen shot)…

Big Pictures/Mr Paparazzi photo agency owner Darryn Lyons is joining Britney Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline to do battle on an Australian weight-loss TV show called Excess-Baggage.…

A selection of Christmas cards sent to PhotoArchiveNews.com this week…. Thanks! Click through the card to visit photo library.…