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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…

Matrix shot on the front page of the Mail on Sunday London based celebrity photo agency Matrix were one of the first agencies on the scene on Saturday night.. a spokesman said: “We had a snapper beaten up and some equipment smashed up. We got the front page and a…

London based photo agency Rex Features have dedicated a web page to their London Riots coverage.…

Lewis Whyld’s image of Tottenham burning was used widely in yesterdays papers. Press Association Images photographer Lewis Whyld’s image (above) of Tottenham burning was used widely in yesterdays 8 Aug) papers including the cover of the Guardian Newspaper. A full team of photographers from Press Association Images are on the…

CineStars has added photo agency Splash News to its daily content offering for affiliates across its network of local newspaper, television and radio web sites. Full details on our US photo industry site: AboutTheimage.com…

Two Alamy contributors are finalists in The Press Photographer’s Year 2011 competition which recognizes and showcases outstanding UK press photography. Alamy say: “Congratulations go to Jim Holden who was a finalist in the Features category for his image of Bonfire Night preparations in East Hoathly, Lewes, East Sussex. Congratulations also…

Kelly: ?Am I nervous? Undeniably. Excited? Absolutely. So let?s go create the future? As iStockphoto approaches the 10 million images mark Chief Operating Officer, Kelly Thompson is moving to Getty Manhattan HQ to to take on a new role as Senior Vice President, Product Development for Getty Images. .…full story…

click through for more details The latest documentary from Barcroft Media documentary arm Barcroft Productions, AMY WINEHOUSE – The Untold Story, airs tonight 10pm, Channel Five in the UK.…

Following chocolate and champaign wildlife photo library FLPA are now giving away 12 bottles of St Peter’s Organic beer on the 1st September, 2011. To enter the competition simply place an order for high res images on FLPA’s website during August. ‘To make this scrumptious beer, the water is taken…

Latest stock and editorial photo industry jobs: ✮ Gallery Stock – Account Executive ✮ Pacific Coast News – Calling celebrity photographers worldwide ✮ Director of International Business Development (AP Images) Click through to our Industry Ads page for details on these jobs.…

Online entries for the 2011 UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards closed at midnight on July 31st ? but not before a deluge of images uploaded from press photographers just beating the deadline. The last-minute surge added to the impressive range of pictures already submitted and closed with a total three…

Our US stock photo industry site AboutTheImage.com reports: ‘this in from a reader this morning’: ?Hi Will, I thought you might be interested in the following email exchange between a client of ours and the Alamy sales team last week, following a cold call from Alamy. I thought you might…

Our US stock photo industry site AboutTheImage.com reports: ‘this in from a reader this morning’: “Hi Will, I thought you might be interested in the following email exchange between a client of ours and the Alamy sales team last week, following a cold call from Alamy. I thought you might…

Justin Parkinson at the BBC reports: ‘As David Cameron prepares to unwind on a summer break in Italy, he and his fellow party leaders will be hoping to avoid prying camera lenses… Forget Brad and Angelina…. When it comes to selling magazines even Posh and Becks had nothing on the…