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This is the image by photographer Andrew Couldridge at Action Images found on a re-edit by the agency’s picture desk manager Simon Flavin which shows an unidentified man sitting next to WBA supervisor Michael Welsh (bottom 2nd left) who has been accused by boxer Amir Khan of interfering with ringside…

Over the last year a team of volunteers has been working hard to list a collection of approximately 4000 photographic prints acquired from the former North Eastern Railway Headquarters in York (now the Cedar Court Grand Hotel). These have been stored in their original filing cabinet since their acquisition and…

Chicago Tribune Staff photographer Scott Strazzante is online with a blog at the newspaper – “Shooting from the Hip” is a photo blog authored by Chicago Tribune staff photographer Scott Strazzante. The blog highlights Strazzante’s daily work and offers a peek into what it is like to be a working…

USA Today Reports: Around the world today, paparazzi and celebrity magazine editors are licking their chops: Beyoncé’s baby is here — who’s gonna get that shot?… usatoday.com…

New York radio station NY 1 has run a video and text interview with photographer Harry Benson – ‘Harry Benson’s photographs have been seen all over the world and his accent is still straight out of Glasgow, but for most of his adult life, New York has been his home.’…

Corbis has just announced the purchased of Norm Marshall & Associates (NMA Group) a world-leader in entertainment marketing and product placement. “Corbis is committed to helping global brands break through the clutter of today’s advertising market by providing the industry’s first comprehensive and integrated approach to connect brands with global…

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…