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Gunter Sachs and Brigitte Bardot / picture alliance/ dpa Click photos for Gunter Sachs file photos available at dpa Picture-Alliance According to media reports the German photographer Gunter Sachs shot himself on 07 May in his house in Gstaad, Switzerland. Scroll through our Industry Links page to read more about…

San Francisco-based image technology company, Stipple, have launched Stipple Lens, a web-based service that licenses and monetizes editorial photos by connecting images to accurate search and social shopping information. They Say: “Lens is a web-based application that enables the content contained in photos to be accurately tagged. Lens distributes the…

Publishers, designers, art directors, creatives, picture editors and researchers, and professional picture buyers of all kinds are invited to enjoy free entry to meet 54 image suppliers on 11 May at the FotoFringe London – Drop in or make appointments, or both. Image Suppliers available on the day: 4Corners Images…

Trent Park running club after racing back to Rex’s Clerkenwell base. Photo by Scott Aiken This in from UK based photo agency Rex Features: Rex adopts a not-quite-so-novel approach to gathering its coverage of the Royal Wedding day. Faced with the enormous financial outlay of either leased lines or installing…

click for depth! Stock footage agency A Luna Blue have released Stereoscopic 3D to their royalty free content. They say “Fly through the heavens, see your brain, experience chaos in four formats: 4k Left and Right, HD Anaglyph, HD Left and Right, HD Stereo Pair’. The clips are available for…

Latest Press Photo History Project reader request: Searching for: ‘1948 Olympics’ Photographers Looking For: Ex Aspect Agency Photographers…

CEPIC reports: On 2 May we have 527 participants registered and counting! 527 delegates, 300 companies, 41 countries and five continents. Asia is more strongly represented than ever before with, amongst others, no less than 12 Chinese companies, 10 Korean and 5 Japanese companies. In total we have 41 companies…

Getty Images ‘Got it’! Getty Images has announced that it has ‘entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sydney-based photo agency Photolibrary’. They say:” The acquisition will benefit existing and potential customers, by making even more high quality and relevant imagery easily accessible to customers all over the world”…..Glenn Parker,…

Shot for the BBC, a 1.15 Giga Pixel Panorama of the Royal Wedding (GigaPan) look who we spotted whilst searching the press pack on the hi-def photo – Big Pictures photo agency owner Darryn Lyons! The BBC commissioned Spherical Images to photograph this highly challenging, huge, panorama of the royal…

Angela Bayes, of the now closed Aspect Agency in London, is seeking French photographer, Pierre Jannet and Austrian photographer Helmut Gritscher. She has files of their colour film that she wishes to return to them. In London contact Angela at: (44) 207-736-1998. Otherwise contact Brian Seed, USA: [email protected]…

7am: Sky News in the UK ran a still photo from a Pakistan news agency allegedly showing the swollen and bloody face of the dead Osama Bin Laden but have withdrawn it from air due to viewer complaints. – The BBC have refused to show the image. 7.30am: – A…

Photo agency Demotix has uploaded a shot of Celebrity Pictures photo agency owner Mr Lyons crossing the Mall on the day of the Royal Wedding in full British attire.…

Another News Int pay-wall UK newspaper, The Times, also features a free Royal Wedding photo galleryon it’s home page with a good mix of image usage representing both pool, wire and independent photo agencies – all well credited.…

News International’s UK Sunday newspaper News Of The World, usually locked up behind a pay-wall, has run free access Royal Wedding photo galleries. Most of the images in their ‘We choose the best snaps of the day’ gallery appear to be pool pictures but without credits it’s hard to be…

WENN Camera Press Rex Features…

Yellow Advertiser is running an interview with the Sun’s Royal photographer Arthur Edwards. WHAT WAS YOUR PATH TO THE SUN? I started off doing shifts and was offered a full-time job on January 22nd, 1975. And then I got asked to see what Prince Charles was doing……… ARE YOU NERVOUS…

Reports coming in to PhotoArchiveNews.com suggest photo agency Alamy is planning to offer stock footage by September this year.…

LA based celebrity photo agency Splash landed six front page photos in UK national newspapers on the eve of the Royal Wedding. Photographer Nick Houghton’s shot Kate talking on the phone made four covers.…