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Photo agency Alamy are now accepting model and property release forms from legal release software company VMRRelease providing contributors to the agency an easy way to Property/Model Release their images via an App. Above Tom McGhee, creator of VMRelease introduces the benefits of using his new Model / Property Release…

***BREAKING NEWS – PAN Exclusive*** Following the news that Getty Images is cutting editorial photographers revenue percentages to 35% (first reported on PDNPulse) Photoarchivenews.com started getting emails and calls suggesting celebrity photo agency Splash (recently bought by Corbis) are going to pick up the tab offering Getty Images contributors 50%…

CEPIC and the World Photo Organisation are partnering for the 14th edition of the CEPIC Congress which will be held in London from 15th – 18th May 2012. The World Photo Organization will sponsor the Annual Industry Party at Somerset House.…

David Armano on the Harvard Business School blog writes: Six Social Media Trends for 2012 : ‘Social media continues to move forward toward business integration, a trend that I identified last year. In a joint study from Booz Allen and social platform developer Buddy Media, 57 percent of businesses surveyed…

From Dede Millar: In March 2012 there is going to be an inspirational Exhibition taking place at the Strand Gallery in London. Entitled She Bop A Lula, the exhibition will comprise 50 images of the most influential and creative female singers over the last six decades, photographed by women photographers.…

The December issue of Press Gazette carries a story on ‘Photography legend’ Kent Gavin on how he didn’t kill Doris Day’s dog’. PG Editor Dom Ponsford has highlighted a few other articles in this months issue: – In-depth round-up of a soul-searching Society of Editors conference. Mirror editor Richard Wallace…

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…