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A Few More Agency Xmas Cards

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!…

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Design Pics Acquires First Light

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

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New Representation: Noor At Eyevine

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…

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Dreamstime Boasts Over 4M Customers

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)…

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A Freelance Photographers View Of The Industry

Phil Coomes – Picture editor on the BBC News website – has been featuring photographers on his blog this week. ‘Adapt to survive: A photographer’s view of the market today’ In the second of a week-long series by guest bloggers freelance photographer Philip Wolmuth looks at the current market for…

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Behind The Scenes With National Geographic Photographers

photo ©National Geographic/Michael Nichols ‘Have you ever seen a photo in the National Geographic magazine and wondered, “how’d they get that”? Field Test, a newly launched National Geographic feature, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a magazine article, including the latest technologies used in the field by photographers-…

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Museums + Heritage Show 2012 – Registration Open

Registration is open for the Museum + Heritage Show in London May 2012. They say: ‘The show brings together the latest products and services available, all under one roof at one time and is a ‘must do’ for anyone working in museums, galleries, heritage or other cultural visitor attractions. It’s…

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Agency Closure: Icon International

In an email to picture desks Kimberly Ayl President of photo agency Icon International announces the agency will close at the end of this year. Representing over 50 editorial photographers Icon was founded in 1997. Kimberly says in the email titled ‘Icon to Close’ seen by PhotoArchiveNews this morning: Dear…

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2012 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest

World Press Photo is now accepting entries for the 2012 contest for the best multimedia storytelling in visual journalism. The contest is open for photographers, publications and multimedia producers to enter their work to be judged by an international, nine-member jury of experts. The deadline for registration and uploading submissions…

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This Week On ‘About The Image’

– London Fire Brigade Archive Now At Mary Evans – McGraw-Hill Education Laying Off Staff – The Photo Industry Supports 50% Revenue Share For Photographers – Microstock Tips From Dreamstime: ‘Memorable Holiday Photos’ – PLATON Now At Trunk – Job Vacancy: Experienced Picture Editor – Los Angeles…

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AP Teams With Whosay – Allows Personalities To Licence Photos

WhoSay, a ‘personal media management platform’ has announced an agreement with AP Images – the Associated Press’s commercial photo division – to enable famous artists, athletes and personalities the ability to license their own photos. Under the agreement, each time WhoSay members create new photos and videos they will be…

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The ‘Noncommercial License’ Notice Ignored On Flickr

Neerav Bhatt on TechnologySpectator.com has highlighted the issue of the Creative Commons noncommercial license being ignored by news websites building photo galleries from Flickr. He writes: ‘The Canberra Times has joined a raft of other newspapers ignoring copyright restrictions on photographs as photo galleries become more common….. …..Unfortunately this is…

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The Photo Industry Supports 50% Revenue Share For Photographers

After Gary Morgan took the lead yesterday announcing that 50/50 share of royalties for photographers is still very much alive PhotoArchiveNews.com had a flood of emails, text and phone calls from photo agency owners supporting the story we ran Some simply wrote: “More power to photographers! – Good piece Will”…