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Stock footage agency reeldealHD have sent us this short overview of the 2011 PACA Conference. Watch it here…

They say: Wired.com photographers have the enviable job of shooting the coolest stuff and most intriguing people in the technology world. Now we’re giving away many of those photos to you, the public, for free. Beginning today, we’re releasing all Wired.com staff-produced photos under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) license…

World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch have announced that the American photographer Stephen Ferry has been awarded the first Tim Hetherington Grant, set up to celebrate the legacy of the photojournalist and filmmaker killed in Libya earlier this year. The annual grant of €20.000 was given for Ferry’s project…

If you have arrived at PhotoArchiveNews.com in search of stock photos for your publication please visit our Industry Links page where you will find some of the finest picture libraries, photographers and photo agencies on the planet covering every image subject you could possibly require!…

PressPhotoHistory.com reader Peter Bartlam needs your help tracing original’s for the images above. Peter writes: I have a challenge to trace an archive photo from 1933. The history to this is that I did have a panoramic 8ft x 4ft mounted mural photo of an Epsom Derby paddock scene…. Read…

The Associated Press have announced a worldwide distribution and licensing agreement across the archive and contemporary images of the Express Group. Titles at the Express include: OK! Magazine, The Daily Express, Express.co.uk, Sunday Express, Daily Star, DailyStar.co.uk, Daily Star Sunday. Tens of thousands of Express Group’s pictures from around the…

Canon today announced its full-fledged entry into the motion picture production industry with the launch of the Cinema EOS System. Canon’s new professional digital cinematography system spans the lens, digital video camcorder and digital SLR camera product categories. Photo above shows the Canon EOS C300/C300 PL is an all new…

Bryan and Cherry Alexander, photographers and owners of UK based photo library Arcticphoto, have launched 40 years at 40 below a photographic exhibition at Pushkin House, London. The show features forty photographs depicting the life of native peoples from right across the Russian Arctic. The two photographers have also published…

– Science Photo Library: now offering “One Client All Uses” allows image buyers to purchase a rights managed image at one price, for use by one client or company for all manner of uses. The length of time for the licence is negotiable, with the standard being a year and…

The European Commission has adopted a Recommendation asking EU Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve the private sector in digitising cultural material. This is essential to make European cultural heritage more widely available and to boost growth in Europe’s creative industries. The digitised material…

In an audio slideshow put together by Miles Warde and Phil Coomes on the BBC News website Press Association photographer Lewis Whyld (pic above) talks about his experience on what turned out to be a ten hour shift photographing the start of the London Riots in August this year. It…

Parliament TV is screening the: Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property today – meeting starts at 10.30am…/ UPDATE 10.35am Witnesses: i. British Library – Forum of Private Business – Motion Picture Association – Publishers Association – Stop 43. ii. Peter Wishart MP – Creative Coalition – Open Rights Group – PRS…

Photo agency London News Pictures LNP are celebrating a year in business today. Photoarchivenews.com reported their arrival last year – here is what they have to say a year down the line: “It’s been a whole year since LNP opened for business. We have had a fantastic first year with…

Nature, People, Places, Science and Adventure stock footage agency nhnz are offering free ‘capture & creation of digital or tape masters, transfers or delivery’ when you licence from them this month – they say ” Your tech costs will be waived on finalisation of footage license agreement as long as…

They Say: OTTO is a full-service architectural and design photography agency dedicated to licensing the work of preeminent architects and designers from around the world as captured by master contemporary photographers. Founded by Thea Vaughan and Bill Hannigan, OTTO is committed to delivering images of iconic architecture and design. The…

Global Image Works ‘Snowed’ But Available – details on AboutTheImage.com…

Photographer Kevin German at photographer owned cooperative LUCEO Images has mapped his current ‘real time’ location in Vietnam and records a trail of images relating to where he has photographed throughout the country using Google Maps. Find him here: KevinGerman…