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Following chocolate and champaign wildlife photo library FLPA are now giving away 12 bottles of St Peter’s Organic beer on the 1st September, 2011. To enter the competition simply place an order for high res images on FLPA’s website during August. ‘To make this scrumptious beer, the water is taken…

Latest stock and editorial photo industry jobs: ✮ Gallery Stock – Account Executive ✮ Pacific Coast News – Calling celebrity photographers worldwide ✮ Director of International Business Development (AP Images) Click through to our Industry Ads page for details on these jobs.…

Online entries for the 2011 UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards closed at midnight on July 31st ? but not before a deluge of images uploaded from press photographers just beating the deadline. The last-minute surge added to the impressive range of pictures already submitted and closed with a total three…

Our US stock photo industry site AboutTheImage.com reports: ‘this in from a reader this morning’: ?Hi Will, I thought you might be interested in the following email exchange between a client of ours and the Alamy sales team last week, following a cold call from Alamy. I thought you might…

Our US stock photo industry site AboutTheImage.com reports: ‘this in from a reader this morning’: “Hi Will, I thought you might be interested in the following email exchange between a client of ours and the Alamy sales team last week, following a cold call from Alamy. I thought you might…

Justin Parkinson at the BBC reports: ‘As David Cameron prepares to unwind on a summer break in Italy, he and his fellow party leaders will be hoping to avoid prying camera lenses… Forget Brad and Angelina…. When it comes to selling magazines even Posh and Becks had nothing on the…

Sir Harold Evans, probably the most respected living newpaperman, is to present the prizes for this year’s UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards. Sir Harold wrote the defining work on photo-journalism during his tenure as the campaigning editor of the Sunday Times . His book Pictures On A Page remains the…

(from the Mary Evans website) It is with great sadness that we report the death, last Wednesday, of Hilary Evans, co-founder with his wife Mary, of the Mary Evans Picture Library. Although Hilary had struggled with deteriorating health for some time, his appetite for life, and especially the work that…

After nearly three years of preparation and development, the European Film Gateway – EFG – https://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu is now online. The Internet portal to the digital collections of European film archives and cinémathèques offers free access to currently about 400,000 digital videos, photos, film posters and text materials. By September, the…

nydailynews.com reports that Getty Images could sell celebrity photo division WireImage to Reuters for more than $300M. The reason: because Reuters has no “entertainment” photography division. Getty say: that the company is “not selling WireImage to Reuters.” Reuters say: no comment. Read more about the rumour from nydailynews.com…

World Press Photo has launched a new website as a step forward in its strategy to invest in online initiatives to fulfill its mission. Under the motto: ?We exist to inspire understanding of the world through quality photojournalism?, the new site is designed to showcase the award-winning photography in a…

 News just in from Rex Features Rex Features announced today that it is to pass control to its staff, management and a small group of individual investors. While the Selby family will retain a significant financial interest in the business, the current Director of Sales and Marketing, Larry Lawson, takes…

On Saturday 16 July TopFoto hosted prima ballerina Dame Beryl Grey, who arrived to open the TopFoto Gallery?s most ambitious exhibition to date: The Glory of English Ballet, by celebrated photographer Colin Jones, covering Northern Ballet, English National Ballet and The Royal Ballet, from 1958 to 2000. Dame Beryl was…

Young Photographer?s Alliance (YPA), a 501(c)3 educational foundation dedicated to developing the talent of young photographers, has announced its second international mentoring opportunity for students and recent graduates of college-level photography programs. This year?s theme, ?Everything is Energy,? focuses on the powerful forces that shape our world, our politics, our…

Gary Morgan, co-founder at Splash News interviewed this month by the BBC on the demise of the News Of The World and how that will effect business for photographers and photo agencies.…

Melissa Allison at The Seattle Times reports: ‘Look out, Angelina Jolie. Bill Gates owns a piece of you now ? or at least your image. ….Shenk prefers that Splash’s photographers not be called paparazzi. “That is a term of several decades ago,” he said. “This is a very professional industry,…

BREAKING NEWS: Corbis Images has announced its acquisition of Splash News for an ‘undisclosed amount’ Detail from the press release seen by PhotoArchiveNews.com today and held under embargo until 5.15pm: Since its founding in 1990, Splash News is recognized worldwide as a leading source for exclusive, breaking entertainment news and…

Anthony Harvey and Steve West U.S based entertainment photo agency PictureGroup has announced the launch of PictureGroup Europe with the opening of a London office headed up by Chief Photographer Anthony Harvey, formerly with PA and European Sales & Licensing Manager Stephen West formerly with Getty Images. Contact their City…