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PACA have made available the program for the 16th PACA Conference taking place this weekend in New York – download yours here…

Topfoto have re released their ‘Gaddafi’ files (top left) on the announcement of his death, click the Colin Jones image above or visit here: Colonel Gaddafi and Libya: Past and Present Rex Features were up with their Gallery (top right) at 1.27pm yesterday afternoon, within a minute of the news…

David Barron writes on a news site in Houston, the Chron.com, how a stills grab from a phone video has highlighted a changed news era: …..’Along with their regular diet of traffic reports, weather forecasts and celebrity briefings, television viewers were jarred into consciousness Thursday morning by graphic video and…

Stock photo library fotoLibra has launched a brand new venture Heritage Ebooks. Heritage Ebooks is a digital publisher specialising in heavily illustrated and interactive ebooks. It is owned by VisConPro Ltd, the holding company of fotoLibra. The ebooks, which can be read on any ebook reader, Kindle, iPad, Smartphone, PC…

The Kobal Collection has announce that more than a 1000 movie stills and posters from it’s archives have been published in a new book – John Landis’s Monsters in the Movies – John’s reel tales of terror, mystery and imagination offers you a portal to the world that lies beyond…

Picture desk image delivery platform IDS has announced the winner of it’s ’50 Million Images – Countdown Competition’ They say: “The 50 millionth image was uploaded to IDS at 22:15:41 on Saturday 15th October. The winning entry was from Mark Swift of Express Syndication who guessed a time of 21:46.22…

Tom Walmsley, MD at ‘rural’ Bristol based photo agency Specialist Stock sent us these photos of a couple of stray chickens in the agency office last night – Tom told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning : “Our office is next door to my house where I was making tea for my noisy…

‘Lytro lets you take pictures like never before. Unlike a conventional camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro camera captures the entire light field, which is all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space.’ Ren Ng Founder and CEO of Lytro said in…

Read Lauren Margolis’ article on the Photoshelter blog where she interviews Mike Tierney, Art Director at Automobile magazine about ‘How They Hire Photographers’…

Keep up to date with the build up to the PACA Conference in New York this weekend on our US stock photo industry site: About The Image – featuring new photo agencies, new picture library software, UK visiting companies and PACA member offers it’s updating daily…. Here www.AboutTheImage.com…

A new version of picture delivery and search platform from Picturemaxx – my-picturemaxx 4.0 – is ready for to download. The Say: Video! Audio! Text! Images! Your my-picturemaxx has evolved into a full-blown, cutting-edge media search engine. Some upgrades include: – In addition to images, you can now search for…

Interesting slide-to-search drill down tool at Korean photo agency Photokore – click it to try.…

James Claydon (pictured above at AP London HQ earlier this year ©photoarchivenews.com) assumes the newly created post of AP Images Director of International Business Development, based in London. James told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning: “The role involves helping AP Images develop and implement an international photo strategy. I will also provide…

Canon launched the EOS-1D X today – its ‘next generation’ professional Digital SLR (DSLR). The say‘ EOS-1D X is the ultimate camera for capturing stunning images and Full HD movies. Whether shooting in the studio, the sports field, or anywhere in between, this model is ideal for virtually any professional…

Running on the Picturemaxx platform Venus Stock will be launching officially this week at Visual Connections and the 16th Annual PACA Conference in New York. They Say: ‘In addition to meeting the creative and editorial media needs of many businesses, Venus Stock provides high-end, Rights-Managed content for the multi-billion-dollar medical…

Corbis Images has named Barak Ronen as Senior Vice President of Media Products. As SVP of Media Products, Ronen will be based in London and responsible for the company’s Media product development and commercial strategy. Ronen has come from Reuters London where he was titled Vice President of Business Development…

£180 worth of images, illustration and fonts at Veer today – see AboutTheImage.com for the details.…

One of the longest serving press agencies in Southeast Asia, CPA Media has launched its own online picture library, Pictures From History / Pictures From Asia. The library offers an extensive range of historical photographs, classical art and ancient scriptures with roots firmly in Asia—from the Middle East to the…