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Sports Photography agency Offside have announced the start of a special relationship with Marca, the world famous Spanish sports newspaper. From November 2007, Offside will syndicate the picture content of Marca in the UK. The quality of their collection is second to none. Not only does it offer a historical…

MEMENTO MORI – CHURCHES & CHURCHYARDS OF ENGLAND Published by ENGLISH HERITAGE Simon Marsden, who has gained worldwide renown for his evocative photography, has always been fascinated by English churches and churchyards and their funereal art and monuments. So, on his most recent tour of the country, he selected his…

2.5 milliion images online | 1500 images added each day | 2,300 downloads each day “We wanted to showcase the vast range and depth of picture content that Rex has to offer, in our own distinctive Rex way,” says Larry Lawson, Director of Sales and Marketing…..”There’s a new live-feed page…

Getty Images have bought citizen journalism photo agency Scoopt Scoopt.com (someone sold the URL) “New technology has made it easier to capture and distribute imagery, leading to citizen photojournalism that is increasingly relevant to the news cycle,” said Jonathan Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images. “While this genre will…

From today (12th February 2007) photo library Reportdigital.co.uk will be representing the photographs of Exile Images. Report Digital is already well known for their high quality critical realism in depicting the UK. The addition of Exile Images to Report Digital’s growing international stock will offer Exile and Report Digital clients…

Simon Marsden of The Marsden Archive (mesmeric images of ancient ruins and landscapes in his distinctive, gothic style) will be giving the the Annual Exhibition Lecture at the Bromley Camera Club (UK). Entitled “The Journal of a ghost hunter” the lecture is on Thursday 27 April – full details from:…

PA Group (Press Association) has added international celebrity and entertainment picture agency All Action Digital to its photo stable. ‘The acquisition significantly boosts the celebrity archive and new picture production, which will be available to customers through EMPICS, PA Group’s photo licensing division’. All Action was founded by photographer Duncan…

Report digital photographer Jess Hurd has returned from Brazil with pictures from the World Social Forum and also of poverty in Brazil. Photographer, David Mansell has joined the agency bringing his extensive catalogue of “hard to find” UK MP’s to which will soon be added his social issue pictures. reportdigital.co.uk…

Horst Faas, 71, now retired after a lifetime with The Associated Press, has covered Olympic Summer and Winter Games since 1972. In Athens he worked as a photo editor in the International Olympic Photo Pool (IOPP). He gave Photo Archive News his assessment of Athens 2004, the Olympic Summer Games…

The next CEPIC Congress, the market place for Agents from all over the world, will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 10 to 13 June 2004. This year will see one of the largest meetings of picture providers from across the world ever! 600 Delegates from 333 Companies from 48…

The purchase of EMPICS, and the merger of its vast sports photo library with that of The Press Association (PA), will greatly boost the position of PA in the picture syndication market, and improve its range of services to customers.…

In this issue – Marcus Bleasdale, IPG, 3P, Desert Dolphin, Ulf Wallin, Tim Sager, Photoarts, Stockbyte, Core, Moodboard, Beach Feature, Topham Picturepoint, Scotland in Focus, Business AM, Queerstock, Community Faces, ZUMA Press, Eyevine, Air Team Images, BPPA and Wi-Fi, Temple Bar on Fleet Street, Magnum, Debbie Fleming Caffery…

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