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UK magazine company Dennis Publishing has bought Women’s Fitness magazine. The title will sit alongside Health & Fitness magazine which will continue to cover the areas of health and lifestyle in addition to its regular fitness coverage. Previously owned by Vitality Publishing, the move will see the team of five…

Rex Features is expanding its Special Features Department and is looking for a journalist to assist the Special Features Editor. Full details of this job and others visit the Industry Ads page…

Dominique Strauss Khan smiles for the Splash cameras PAN spotted some decent photo usage in the (UK) Saturday Times this weekend – LA based photo agency Splash beat the main wire and traditional news photo agencies to land a major news story double page image usage (above) showing a smiling…

UK based photo libraries Mirrorpix and AWL images have gone live with a Media Storehouse print store directly from their facebook page. Take a look here: Mirrorpix facebook printstore and here: AWL facebook print store…

ABE Books is listing a complete 120 year run from volume 1 (1842) for $600,000 (c.£384,650), but please note the buyer is up for the shipping costs also, all 2 tons of it! To buy (or look) click here Incredible complete collection from Volume 1 #1 of May 14, 1842–through…

New at INF UK: Ben Lane and Vicky Dearman Fast growing celebrity photo agency INF (Insight News & Features) have announced two new appointments to their UK team. Ben Lane, formerly the Press Association’s head of entertainment sales, is the new INF UK Bureau Chief. Ben will be assisted by…

A vacancy has arisen for an Assignment Editor at WENN. Previous experience working as an Assignment Editor or diary manager in a photo agency would certainly be advantageous but is not a pre-requisite. Full details of this job and others visit the Industry Ads page…

UK based, photo agency MAJORITY WORLD has announced the appointment of Chris Barwick as Business Development Director. Chris previously held senior roles with Getty Images and Corbis. Most recently with Magnum Photos, he headed up the London office as Director of Sales with responsibility for all products and services. Majority…

Beatlemania in Paris: Galerie Photo12 1st – 30th July 2011 Galerie Photo12 et Galerie Basia Embiricos 14, rue des Jardins Saint-Paul 75004 Paris ‘The exhibition previously opened in the Netherlands in December 2010 and exclusively features 100 images from the Mirror archives – each one hand-picked to appeal to print…

For the second consecutive year, FRANCE 24 and RFI are organizing the Web Documentary Award within the framework of the photojournalism festival ?Visa pour l?Image – Perpignan? ‘The award honours a web documentary that sets itself apart from other enteries in terms of choice of subject, originality and innovative use…

click it for the new ‘Smart Search’ Royalty Free photo supplier Depositphotos now provide a keyword predictor search tool. They say: “Smart Search will complete the word by itself, display the variants and such word combinations you probably never dreamt of! Enter a text in English, and the search will…

Next January marks the second anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, leaving more than 180,000 homes destroyed and 1.5 million people homeless. While the regions directly impacted by the earthquake have been supported through the UN and various global relief efforts, how are other regions of Haiti faring…

The first Online Media Awards event took place last night – ‘There is no more exciting development in the world of media than online news and information. The biggies are out there of course: the BBC, NYTimes and the IndiaTimes. With great resource and imagination, you would think they are…

JBG Photo Inc has merged with New York based premium photographer agency Trunk Archive. An email announcement was sent to picture buyers in the UK over night. The JBG website and links all forward to the Trunk Archive site.…

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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! Isabelle Doran, Picture Library Manager…

From left to right: Barbro Kaufmann, Klaus Plaumann, Christina Vaughan, Pieter Doorman, Alfonso Gutierrez, Stefan Wittwer – image from CEPIC The officers, CEPIC President Christina Vaughan, Vice-President Klaus Plaumann and Treasurer Dominque Delouis have been reconfirmed in their positions. Barbro Kaufmann, owner and managing director of Pix Offer in Sweden…

From Smarta.com : The internationally renowned paparazzo on the recession and why technology could mean the end of the exclusive. In this video Lyons speaks of how the recession has affected his company, through redundancies and downsizing business models, as well as the advantages and challenges of the international market.…