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Photo agency INSTITUTE (20 months old this month) are celebrating their contributors images being used cross 51 magazine covers – click each cover to see the related photography feature. See the covers here: INSTITUTE Covers The Stories…

This photograph by the Press Association’s Chief Political photographer Stefan Rousseau featuring the Prime Minister David Cameron and wife Samantha during a street party to celebrate the royal wedding in Downing Street, will appear on the Prime Minister’s Christmas card for 2011.…

Magnum Photos are now offering Contact Sheet Prints from the masters. They say ‘A contact sheet can tell a story and can give us insight to the editing choices of the maker. The photographers’ markings can create an iconic image which becomes an archive of our history’. The 16×20 inch…

US based photo agency X17 reports on the Lindsay Lohan ‘leaked’ Playboy shoot…’Playboy is reportedly furious over the photo leak, because they were banking on the Lohan mag being their biggest seller of the year. The fact that the entire spread is now online will potentially have a negative impact…

London based photo library Lebrecht – music & arts – are online with their top ten Christmas images from recent additions to the library.…

This CBS video explores inside the Corbis ‘film preservation facility’ archive deep in the Iron Mountain store, Pennsylvania. – Thanks to John Balean at Topfoto for flagging this up –…

New York based photo agency The Hell Gate has opened a sister site – Hell Gate Production – a new music photography platform. They say: ‘We are incredibly proud of the quality of the work presented here and incredibly excited to be collaborating with such a high standard of photographer.…

Pro sports photographer Kari Kuukka, based in Porvoo, Finland has posted an article on his blog titled: ‘LA Times et al.: Do You Have to Suck the Sweat out of my Balls now that I am Dead?’ He tells the story of his friend and colleague photographer Matti Matikainen who…

In cinemas across America at the moment – Under Fire: Journalists In Combat – is a documentary about the psychological cost of covering wars. They say: ‘Only two journalists were killed in World War I. Sixty-three journalists were killed in World War II. In the last two decades almost a…

fotofringe London: 26 April 2012. Picture users/researchers/designers/creatives: register After May’s wildly successful debut networking event for picture researchers, publishers, designers, and image providers, the team behind fotofringe London have announced they are running the show again in 2012. There are treasures to be found and deals to be done. Put…

To coincide with the launch of their new book ‘Magnum Contact Sheets’ Magnum Photos are giving away a free copy to a publisher who has licensed a Magnum photo as a book cover this year. To help Magnum choose you get to vote for the best cover and also a…

Florida based royalty free photo agency Depositphotos has expanded its license policy to accept non-model released and non-property-released images for editorial use. “Depositphotos has started accepting editorial images due to strong demand for such content from our existing customer base. With this new submission option Depositphotos contributors will be free…

The photo editors of TIME magazine have chosen their Top 10 Photos of 2011 – like the Reuters Best Photos Of The Year feature the Time gallery also carries the photographers description with each photo.…

Photo library Fotolia are launching their Ten Collection this Friday 9th Dec. 10 influential international digital artists will create an image based on a specific theme, and the resulting Photoshop PSD file, complete with all the details and layers, will be made available for download. They say: “Each month, you…

Michael Hamrah kicks off the new Technology series on the Getty Images blog with a post ‘From camera to customer faster than ever before’ – He starts: “I wanted to give an overview of this automated asset delivery system we use for Sports, News and Entertainment imagery, commonly known within…

Corbis has released a ‘flexible subscription option‘ at Veer. They say: ‘Subscribers enjoy a separate, simple user interface to search and download a wide range of images while using their universal Veer.com login….. With pricing as low as $0.33 per image, the service is well-suited to independent creatives, small shops,…

7 February 2012 marks the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. UK based photo library Topfoto have prepared a gallery of illustrations from their archives concentrating on poignant events in the authors life here; The Life of Charles Dickens (1812-1870)…

Courthouse News Service in California reports: Celeb Photo Agency Sues Gossip Site ‘Mavrix, a celebrity photo agency which says it licenses photos for up to $100,000 a pop, claims a gossip website published its copyrighted photos of singer Katy Perry to boost its web traffic and increase ad revenue’. Read…