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The UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards 2011: Winners’ Exhibition – Museum Of London – September 29th 2011 – 22 january 2012 – Free. This year’s award-winning images will be on display to the public in a ground-breaking new exhibition thanks to PhotoBox and the Museum of London. Guild chairman Alan…

Photo library TopFoto is trying to trace the copyright holders for these images of MkIX spitfires carrying beer during the second world war. They would also be interested in similar shots. If you own the copyright to these images or have similar email Will (@ ) photoarchivenews.com and we will…

Paparazzi photographer and co-owner of LA photo agency Buzz Foto, Henry Flores, is hosting a permanent retrospective of contemporary celebrity photos in “A Day In The Life of The Paparazzi!” His book, of the same title will be launched at an opening night celebrity reception.  “Henry Flores brings elegance and art form…

PhotoArchiveNews.com is now broadcasting on a new platform with a new server host…. a few changes still to attend to so any feed back is welcome now – will(@)photoarchivenews.com You can now follow breaking industry news, gossip and new job ads via our Twitter feed: ( @PANupdate )  – send…

According to a Dow Jones report Getty Images owner, private equity investment firm, Hellman & Friedman are reported to be among bidders for Yahoo. More if we see it.…

Nature Picture Library is pleased to offer two free one day tickets (worth £110 each) to WildPhotos, held at the Royal Geographic Society in London on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd October 2011. To enter the competition, create a lightbox at www.naturepl.com of 20 images, 4 each by the following 5…

Photo library akg-images has announce its partnership with Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, The picture collection of the Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, brings together the Museum of Decorative Arts, the Museum of Fashion and Textiles and the Museum of Advertising which are housed in the Louvre, as well as the Musée Nissim…

Social issues photo library John Birdsall’s has a new iPhone App, featuring 20,000 images. Users can search by keyword, make a lightbox of an image selection and email that direct to their desktop. Partner Clare Marsh said: ‘Our customers are on-the-go people and we feel this App caters to their…

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appointed Russian News & Information Agency RIA Novosti as the Host National News Agency and the National Olympic Photo Pool for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. As the Host National News Agency for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, RIA Novosti will enjoy similar…

Photographer Don North reports on consortiumnews.com; ‘Bill Gates v’s Photojournalists’ ‘When Microsoft founder Bill Gates bought the once-mighty French photo agency Sygma in 1999, there was hope that his vast financial resources and renowned business skills could rescue not only Sygma but the profession of photojournalism’…… …..’Dominique Aubert, once a…

The archive of photographer Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928), which includes more than 50,000 signed photographic prints, will be housed at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. The Ransom Center photography holdings range from collections of prints to individual archives…

‘Splash News and Pictures is currently involved in global expansion and as a result we are seeking an additional late shift photo desk editor for our Los Angeles office…’ Full details of this job are on the Industry Ads page now.…

Click to explore…. Corbis Images have released a new online Portfolio today that highlights the extensive inventory of its nine signature collections that range from commercial images, to unforgettable moments in history to natural wonders and iconic celebrities. – The Corbis Portfolio collections also reveal the stories behind the images…

London based sport photo agency Backpage Images have appointed Martin Ellis as Commercial Director. Ellis joins BPI from Action Images where he was Head of Business Development and he has previously worked in similar roles at Empics and PA Sport. Managing Director Javier Garcia told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning; “It is…

‘Before They Were Famous’ – click for the answers ArenaPAL have been scouring their library and have unearthed another rare selection of gems for you! Take a look at these early career shots of internationally acclaimed performers and see how many you recognise – before checking the captions… Look out…

United States Tennis Association Signs Exclusive, Multi-Year Licensing Agreement with Thought Equity Motion Thought Equity Motion, Inc., a provider of cloud-based video platform and footage licensing services, announced that the United States Tennis Association (USTA) engaged in a multi-year, exclusive agreement to utilize the company’s advanced video platform and sales…

New Work by Richard Heeps at Millennium Images – click it to view the images…

PixPalace USA will be shut down as of September 30th. Kelli Grant the company’s US Director in an email to U.S customers wrote: “PixWays, which is alive and thriving on the French market, made a great effort in the worst of economic times to challenge the North American market 3…