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from the press release: – LONDON, 11th October, 2011: The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA) is waving a sad farewell to Executive Director, Simon Cliffe, who is leaving the Association after nearly three years in charge. – His appointment in 2008 followed a strategic review commissioned by…

When Cricket Was Cricket – click the cover to see the book at Haynes Drawing on 100 years editorial photography from their huge archive Mirrorpix have provided full image content for a new series of books with publisher Haynes. Above is the Cricket book, others include – Those Were The…

Isabelle Doran, Picture Library Manager at photo library Loupe Images, told PhotoArchiveNews.com:“Loupe Images is proud to announce that they remain among the few specialist boutique picture libraries that not only has an extensive collection of interiors, but also has not jumped on the bandwagon and syndicated to other picture agencies…

UK based news and features photo agency Barcroft Media are online with a new look website for their main News photo service and TV Features video production unit. Barcroft Media’s new sites run on the Picturemaxx platform, and uses much of their finance, delivery and storage technology.…

Goksin Sipahioglu, photojournalist and founder of photo agency Sipa, died this week. PAN article A commemorative service for Goksin Sipahioglu has been announced and will be held thursday, October 13th, at the Theatre de l”Europe – Theatre de l’Odeon, Place de l’Odeon in the 6th arrondissement of Paris at 11…

Photographer Dimitri Vervitsiotis, a contributor to Heritage Images (Imagestate Media Partners Ltd), has started a blog – https://imagestatecomplaints.blogspot.com/ documenting his struggle to get paid by the picture library. UPDATE 31 Jan 2012 (that blog has now been removed) I am a photographer and have had several hundred images with Imagestate…

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the fact that, although clearly identified, many journalists were attacked by police officers while covering yesterday’s anti-austerity protests and strikes in Athens. …An AFP photographer who did not want to be named had a tooth broken by a police riot shield that was deliberately…

5th Oct: Expatica.com reports: ‘Goksin Sipahioglu, photojournalist and founder of the renowned Paris-based photo agency Sipa, died on Wednesday at the age of 84, the company he helped create and led for three decades announced’. UPDATE – 6 Oct: This in from John Echave, Executive Producer, LS Films/Blue Lagoon Productions…

Ni Syndication the photo library of newspaper group News International have been through their vast archive at Wapping and discovered more archival images of Steve Jobs – scanned and online now here or click the selection above.…

Martin Schwimmer, a partner in Leason Ellis, an IP law boutique in White Plains, NY, reports on his blog The Trademark Blog: ‘Readers of the blog know that the CAR FRESHNER people, owners of the mark consisting of the product configuration of a tree-shaped air freshener, know where the court…

Photo agency Noor have announced two new photographer members, Andrea Bruce and Giancarlo Ceraudo. NOOR members are now Nina Berman, Philip Blenkinsop, Pep Bonet, Andrea Bruce, Giancarlo Ceraudo, Alixandra Fazzina, Jan Grarup, Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Kadir van Lohuizen, Jon Lowenstein and Francesco Zizola and managing director Claudia Hinterseer.…

Pond5 an ‘online marketplace for stock media and creative components’ has announced that its stock collection now includes more than 800,000 royalty-free stock video clips. “We’re looking to build the most artist-friendly marketplace for stock media on the web,” says Tom Bennett, co-founder and CEO of Pond5, “as well as…

Fashion clothing company Carhartt have included a twin lens reflex camera in the fall/winter collection…. The say: The Blackbird Fly is modelled on the classic twin-lens medium format camera Rolleiflex, the double-barrel 35-mm-film camera used by Andy Warhol and James Dean. Its old-fashioned style is guaranteed to bring the pleasure…

4 Oct: Spotted this morning on twitpic – ‘Mirrorpixies’ Mel and Lucy (from photo library MirrorPix) preparing tables ahead of the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Awards last night.  – what’s with the headset Mel?! UPDATE: 6 Oct: Mel wrote in:” The headset is to communicate with the upstairs office…

Reuters photographers talk about shooting the Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand by Tim Wimborne – Reuters Chief Photographer – Australia and New Zealand Tim is Reuters picture editor at the Rugby World Cup.…

‘Steve Jobs passes away at 56’ – Photo agency Newscom have prepared a image-ready gallery of the Apple co-founder throughout his career. This gallery is updating automatically every few minutes as press images report reaction to the news around the world – click the gallery selection above to visit ‘Steve…

Photo shows one of photographer Tjaart van Staden images used on the front cover of a recent Bradt Guide This in from Gwyn Headley at UK based photo agency fotoLibra. Hello Will, Sad news: one of our top photographers [Tjaart van Staden] has died in a microlight plane crash in…