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click the ©Clive Barda/ArenaPAL/TopFoto image for more Andrew Lloyd Webber’s worldwide musical hit PHANTOM OF THE OPERA celebrates its 25th anniversary in London this October – click for a selection of stock images at the Topfoto archives…

Latest stock photo industry news from the USA on our site AboutTheImage.com: ✮ Dreamstime Launches ‘Infringement Reporter’ ✮ Splash Staff & Freelancers Meet Mr Shenk Read on here: AboutTheImage.com…

The latest photo archive finds and searches on the Press Photo History project: ✮ Update: Looking For: Holloway and Sons Bristol Read on here: PressPhotoHistory.com…

from the PR: BBC Worldwide and Exponent Private Equity (“Exponent”) have announce that they have signed a sale [£121m] and licensing agreement for the publication of titles currently published by BBC Magazines, BBC Worldwide’s consumer magazines business. Under the terms of the deal Exponent will acquire, in full, Radio Times…

Turi Munthe, founder of citizen journalism photo agency Demotix reports: “Some big news… Corbis, one of the world’s leading visual media providers, has invested in Demotix. What this means for us as a company, for our contributors, and for what Demotix stands for is – we feel – tremendous. Since…

click for the Corbis-AP slide show Corbis Images has announced a partnership with Associated Press that provides customers with over 10 million images covering an extensive range of breaking news, sports and entertainment, archival and creative images. The Associated Press, will make available thousands of breaking news, sports, and entertainment…

Online stock photography agency Fotolia has released a major update to their website. New features include: faceting of search results – a function to set price limits – improved navigation and usability… full details at: AboutTheImage.com…

Winnipeg Free Press.com reports: TORONTO – Arius3D Corp. (TSXV:LZR) said Friday it has agreed to buy stock photography still image provider Masterfile Corp. for $21.4 million in cash. Arius3D, which produces interactive three-dimensional images, said the addition of Masterfile will help it develop a distribution framework for its products. Full…

The Press Photo History Project (a PhotoArchiveNews.com initiative) is currently researching early press guides, if you have any please let us know they may be useful to our work. This is a working list of photo agencies and libraries operating and deceased- if your agency is not listed please let…

Latest stock and editorial photo industry jobs: ✮ Ardea – Full-time Administration and Systems ‘wizard’ ✮ Trunk Archive – ASSISTANT AGENT FOR PHOTOGRAPHY ✮ Gallery Stock – Account Executive ✮ Pacific Coast News – Calling celebrity photographers worldwide Click through to our Industry Ads page for details on these jobs.…

Gary Shenk, CEO of Corbis, will host a ‘registration-only’ event on September 1st during Professional Week at Visa pour l’Image Perpignan, France. During his presentation, titled “The Future of Media & New Frontiers in Photojournalism,” Shenk will address industry trends and insight about the company’s transforming media business. Register here…

‘ImageCollect aims to disrupt the celebrity photo market by applying the micro-stock business model’ – click search Celebrity stock photo agency ImageCollect.com now has more than one and a half million photos available for download at Celebrity photos. The library ranges from archival material, such as shots of a young…

The Herald Sun reports: ‘GEELONG ambassador and paparazzi king Darryn Lyons is set to enter UK’s Celebrity Big Brother house along with Hollywood wild man Charlie Sheen and boxing legend Mike Tyson.’ here: www.heraldsun.com.au…

reported © UPI/Bettman – Corbis and UPI do not hold this image – do you? This in from a PhotoArchiveNews.com reader: “I need to find the copyright holder of the – above – image (and here) and I need the hi res of the image, too. Both, UPI and Corbis…

Commercial estate agent CoStar Group reports: ‘Seattle native, Getty Images, has signed a 10-year lease for about 59,300 square feet in the 605 Union Station office building located at 605 5th Avenue S. in Seattle, WA. The company is relocating from 601 N. 34th St. and will occupy the fourth…

Photographer Amy Weston says, “I heard people crying out that there were others in the building” WENN photographer Amy Weston feared for her safety last night (08Aug11) after taking a dramatic photo of a woman jumping from a burning building during the London riots. WENN say: The snap is already…

Photo agency London News Pictures – LNP – had twenty one images from their London riot coverage published in UK newspapers on Monday including a front page, see the usage here…

‘Street Journalism’ photo agency Demotix have twenty nine photo reports from ten contributing photographers online now: Demotix/London Riots…