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Cairo Divided is a unique text and photo essay by Guardian journalist Jack Shenker and Panos photographer Jason Larkin, who examine a city in the process of turning itself inside out. Jason used the Guardian printers but sponsored the publications himself. Jason says on his website: ‘For the last couple…

9pm 1Dec BBC4: ‘Life was an iconic weekly magazine that specialised in extraordinarily vivid photojournalism. Through its most dynamic decades, – the 40s, 50s and 60s – Life caught the spirit of America as it blossomed into a world superpower. No other magazine in the world held the photograph in…

For the past 2 years Véronique Sutra (above) has been in charge of developing multimedia clients for the Magnum Photo archive. Today she is the founder and director of Eyes In Progress which will debut its masterclass workshop program in February 2012, based in France and Spain. Each workshop will…

The deadline for the fifth International Garden Photographer of the Year competition is tomorrow (30 Nov). Don’t miss the chance to be part of this premier photography competition.Top prize £5000 plus cash prizes for all category winners. £2000 for portfolio winner plus Royal Photographic Society Gold Medal. Here…

Stock footage agency Video Blocks is giving 7 days of complimentary access to download ‘anything you want’ from their archive of over 30,000 clips of footage, backgrounds, production music and more. small print reads: Just create a username and password to download: You can download 20 clips per day :…

From Flora Smith, partner, TopFoto.co.uk It is with great sadness that we hear the news of the death of Ken Russell. TopFoto has represented Ken since the negatives of his 1950s photographs came to light in our archive in 2006 and during this time, Ken and his adored wife Elise…

CEO Ray Flemings founder/CEO at Stipple – ‘an in-picture labeling tool that allows publishers to label and share any person, place or thing in the photos on their site’ – explains the service on Scobleizer’s You Tube Channel. By activating Stipple on a site, publishers offer their users a new…

Photographer Jay Brooks has joined UK based photo agency Camera Press. They say: ‘Jay shoots energetic reportage-style work for a variety of fashion and advertising clients, as well as music and celebrity portraiture. Allowing this loose, relaxed reportage style to influence his portraits, he captures something of his subject’s personality…

PAN copy-editor Marc Ballantine (10 October 1969 – 14 December 2011 R.I.P.) spotted this resource: TV Ark – ‘TVARK is an online TV museum. The site is intended as a tribute to the work of television presentation and graphics, and to preserve a slice of our social history. Through images…

Fancy winning a year’s full subscription to the best creative lists available? All you have to do to enter is ‘like’ BikiniLists on Facebook, it’s that simple… The winner will be selected at random from Bikini’s facebook fans on Friday 2nd December at 14:00 GMT. So what are you waiting…

Four intrepid reporters and editors from Bahrain, Belarus, Mexico, and Pakistan were honored Tuesday, November 22, at the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 21st Annual International Press Freedom Awards benefit dinner, an annual recognition of courageous journalism. Full report here: CPJ…

How I shot it: Commonwealth Super Featherweight Title Fight Getty Images sports photographer Dean Moutharopoulos shows you how he shoots boxing in this video, featuring Liam Walsh and Paul Appleby at London’s York Hall a couple of weeks ago.…

UK based magazine publisher Future Publishing has launched MediaStore offering thousands of rights managed images sourced from Future Publishing’s special interest magazines covering the latest and the best in music, sport, craft and technology. The say: ‘ Easy to search and download, MediaStore has affordable and high quality content for…

The Revd Andrew Freeman photographic collection (1895 – 1946) has been given to The British Institute of Organ Studies (BIOS). They say’ A valuable and unique collection of photographs of organ-cases has been given to the British Organ Archive by the Freeman family. The fragile glass-plate negatives have now been…

Last night on BBC 4 Storyville: Deadline: The New York Times Documentary which goes inside the newsroom at one of the most venerable publishing institutions in the world, the New York Times, as it struggles to survive in a tumultuous year. here: BBC iPlayer…

Photographer Jim Erickson along with his team at stock photo and commercial photography company Erickson Productions in Petaluma, California have uploaded a new video on their You Tube channel showing behind-the- scenes production and results of a recent client shoot using 3D-like imagery… we spotted PAN subscriber Jesse Hughes, Erickson’s…

The Everett Collection in New York City are ‘seeking an individual with professional web design and Internet marketing experience’. Full job ad on our US stock photo industry site AboutTheImage.com…

German based photo agency Mauritius Images has drastically reduced its prices on their ‘Bestprice Images’ collection as it repositions itself toward the midstock sector. They have removed print run limitations and prices now start at € 2.50. The Bestprice Images collection boasts 1.8 million images. They say: ‘At www.bestprice-images.com images…