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Online stock photography agency Fotolia has released a major update to their website. New features include: faceting of search results – a function to set price limits – improved navigation and usability… full details at: AboutTheImage.com…

Winnipeg Free Press.com reports: TORONTO – Arius3D Corp. (TSXV:LZR) said Friday it has agreed to buy stock photography still image provider Masterfile Corp. for $21.4 million in cash. Arius3D, which produces interactive three-dimensional images, said the addition of Masterfile will help it develop a distribution framework for its products. Full…

The Press Photo History Project (a PhotoArchiveNews.com initiative) is currently researching early press guides, if you have any please let us know they may be useful to our work. This is a working list of photo agencies and libraries operating and deceased- if your agency is not listed please let…

Latest stock and editorial photo industry jobs: ✮ Ardea – Full-time Administration and Systems ‘wizard’ ✮ Trunk Archive – ASSISTANT AGENT FOR PHOTOGRAPHY ✮ Gallery Stock – Account Executive ✮ Pacific Coast News – Calling celebrity photographers worldwide Click through to our Industry Ads page for details on these jobs.…

Gary Shenk, CEO of Corbis, will host a ‘registration-only’ event on September 1st during Professional Week at Visa pour l’Image Perpignan, France. During his presentation, titled “The Future of Media & New Frontiers in Photojournalism,” Shenk will address industry trends and insight about the company’s transforming media business. Register here…

‘ImageCollect aims to disrupt the celebrity photo market by applying the micro-stock business model’ – click search Celebrity stock photo agency ImageCollect.com now has more than one and a half million photos available for download at Celebrity photos. The library ranges from archival material, such as shots of a young…

The Herald Sun reports: ‘GEELONG ambassador and paparazzi king Darryn Lyons is set to enter UK’s Celebrity Big Brother house along with Hollywood wild man Charlie Sheen and boxing legend Mike Tyson.’ here: www.heraldsun.com.au…

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…