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Lucian Freud at Lord Antony Lambton’s book launch, London September 1983 ©Dafydd Jones www.dafjones.com Scenes from the Art world – 30 years of Gallery culture by Dafydd Jones Idea Generation Gallery, London Exhibition: 6th October – 16th October A leading pioneer in society photography Dafydd Jones has been photographing key…

‘Jeff and Jenny talk to Mr Paparazzi about his time in the Big Brother house’, click it…

UK based Alpha Photographic Press Agency have started a twitter feed – Mark Blumire MD at Alpha Press told PhotoAchiveNews.com “We felt we should let publishers and photographers know that we are very much part of the 24/7 photo press world and the modern social media universe we’re all living…

The 2011 awards evening will be held for a second year at the Prince Consort Rooms within The Honourable Artillery Company HQ, London. Finalists in the UK Picture Editors’ Guild 2011 Awards sponsored by SABMiller are: Picture Editors Guild News Photographer of the Year: Carl Court Matt Dunham Paul Hackett…

‘This week Icon News puts a call out to all paparazzi to submit their contact info, to recieve weekly updates of shots for purchase’…. more at AboutTheImage.com today.…

Full coverage of the Rugby World Cup from Press Association Images – click images for details…

12 Sept: PAN has received an email from the ‘webmaster’ at Buce Juice – here it is: Hello, your talking about our site www.bruce-juice.com on PA news, I thought I would give you the respect of a response. I suspected our site was being targeted by media groups, and tonight…

PictureGroup Europe images are now available on IDS Picture Desk – ‘the one stop image search platform for media professionals’ – We reported last month the opening in London of Picture Group Europe (PictureGroup was launched in the US in 2009 by entertainment photographer Frank Micelotta) The UK based arm…

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MediaWeek reports: … ‘The roles of news editor, picture editor and deputy art editor have been hit by the announcement, according to a source, who claimed the magazine needed to cut costs “to stay viable”…. full reports here: mediaweek.co.uk…

the event getting busy… nice disco ball Tom! and the DJ played on…. Leading picture agencies, libraries and media companies attended the pixxday SUISSE where they met nearly three hundred picture editors, art buyers, graphic designers. Launched by software company picturemaxx AG in cooperation with its partners from the media…

The Boston Standard reports: ‘A BOSTON MP, acclaimed locally for bringing clean piped drinking water to Boston, is to be honoured with a free exhibition at Fydell House this weekend….He founded the Illustrated London News, the first newspaper to carry pictures – some of which will be on display’. –…

Formula One photographer Russell Batchelor lost his son earlier this year, and is raising funds for Ethan’s old school by auctioning some amazing F1 items that have been donated by drivers and teams. Full details here: Please help my mate Rusty……

above, the happy couple and right, Owen at work… a couple of years ago This just in from Lloyd Beiny “My son Owen, Director of Operations for WENN in LA and ace pap, got married on the beach at Santa Monica last week. Here’s a pic of Owen and Adele.…

-Getty Images are going to shoot the 2012 London Olympics in 3D. -Alamy launches ‘100% Royalties’ for students. ‘The campaign will see Alamy offering photography and design students 100 percent royalties on all sales over a two year period’. -Deposit Photos has secured a significant investment contract with TMT Investments.…

Roger Tooth, picture editor at the Guardian newspaper in London writes about ‘Acceptable uses of Photoshop in the Guardian and Grazia’ here: guardian.co.uk…

…..’After negotiating a few bundles of papers thrown from the vans I ran in to Salisbury Court and found the entrance in an alley way leading to St Brides Church and gingerly poked my head around the door. “Come in lad, just don’t stand there” came a friendly voice peering…

They say: ‘Lebrecht Music & Arts has be sailin’ across th’ oceans ‘n come back wit’ images ‘o band ‘o pirates’ lovely booty. Famous pirates from t’ Barbary coast and t’ Americas be now online on our website. … Click here to spy wit’ ye eye…