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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…

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…

– 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…

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…

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…

The team of award-winning photographers at Getty Images covered over 8,000 news events, 19,000 sports events and 51,000 entertainment events through 2011. View their work above.…

Snappy little festive wishes in this video from footage agency Skyworks – Watch here thanks to Tom for flagging this one up!…

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”…

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…