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The photo editors of TIME magazine have chosen their Top 10 Photos of 2011 – like the Reuters Best Photos Of The Year feature the Time gallery also carries the photographers description with each photo.…

Photo library Fotolia are launching their Ten Collection this Friday 9th Dec. 10 influential international digital artists will create an image based on a specific theme, and the resulting Photoshop PSD file, complete with all the details and layers, will be made available for download. They say: “Each month, you…

Michael Hamrah kicks off the new Technology series on the Getty Images blog with a post ‘From camera to customer faster than ever before’ – He starts: “I wanted to give an overview of this automated asset delivery system we use for Sports, News and Entertainment imagery, commonly known within…

Corbis has released a ‘flexible subscription option‘ at Veer. They say: ‘Subscribers enjoy a separate, simple user interface to search and download a wide range of images while using their universal Veer.com login….. With pricing as low as $0.33 per image, the service is well-suited to independent creatives, small shops,…

7 February 2012 marks the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. UK based photo library Topfoto have prepared a gallery of illustrations from their archives concentrating on poignant events in the authors life here; The Life of Charles Dickens (1812-1870)…

Courthouse News Service in California reports: Celeb Photo Agency Sues Gossip Site ‘Mavrix, a celebrity photo agency which says it licenses photos for up to $100,000 a pop, claims a gossip website published its copyrighted photos of singer Katy Perry to boost its web traffic and increase ad revenue’. Read…

The people at UK online store Cafe Press are back again with some xmas ideas for the industry.…

In the UK the FOCAL (Federation of Commercial Audio-visual Libraries) International Awards 2012 has extended its deadline for submissions from December 1st to December 12th at 18.00. FOCAL is calling for entries for its ninth annual FOCAL International Awards, in association with AP Archive. These Awards celebrate the best use…

Represented by Panos Pictures until his death this year photojournalist Tim Hetherington’s archive now lies with Magnum Photos. Magnum have now released a photo feature called The Libya Negs: Tim Hetherington’s Last Images. They say ‘Tim Hetherington was committed to documenting the uprising against the Libyan government. In April 2011…

In this YouTube video DigitalRevTV go about explaining and showing you all the elements required to produce a perfect stock photo …sort of! – worth a watch if you want a few minutes downtime.…

London based Mary Evans Picture Library has today announced representation of the London Fire Brigade archive, a major collection tracing the history and heritage of the LFB from the late 19th century to the present day. The archive holds extensive documentation of the fire service in London and is a…

The Visual Arts library at the London Metropolitan University have released a new online resource for research in photography and the subjects depicted in photographs. Full details here at our Press Photo History site…

Photo marketing list company Bikini Lists have announced the winner of their Win a full 1 year Subscription to Bikini UK! promo. They say: “Congratulations to Illustrator Alice Collins who wins the free subscription to BikiniLists for a year! For those of you weren’t so lucky, don’t fret. As a…

Celebrity photo agency Flynet Pictures are online with their dedicated YouTube channel. ‘FlynetPictures’s Channel’ has been online less than 4 days and already clocked up 598 subscribers and 217,720 total upload views earning them 3 Rosettes from You Tube. Content includes yesterday’s exclusive – Rihanna filming the video to her…

– Deposit Photos Hits 5m Images Online – 123RF Now Accepting Video Submissions – PACA Publish “Rogue” Website List – UK Motoring Museum ‘Photo Prints’ Site Online – FotoWeekDC Extended – Includes ‘Eyes of History’ Winners Exhibition – New Referral Program At iStockphoto Read on here: AboutTheImage.com…

Reuters have posted their annual Best Photos Of The Year slide show online now. This year each image comes with the photographers description of the situation leading to the shot. Here: Best photos of the year 2011…

World Press Photo invites all press photographers and photojournalists around the world to participate in the 55th World Press Photo Contest. The 2012 World Press Photo Contest is now open for entries. The deadline for submissions is 12 January 2012, 23.59 CET. Entries may be submitted online via our web…

They say: ‘The BPPA today [30 Nov] wrote to the Leveson Inquiry and asked to be added to the list of those giving evidence. We did this because of the one-way traffic from witnesses criticising photographers and because of the dreadfully lazy television journalism that has painted each and every…