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5th Oct: Expatica.com reports: ‘Goksin Sipahioglu, photojournalist and founder of the renowned Paris-based photo agency Sipa, died on Wednesday at the age of 84, the company he helped create and led for three decades announced’. UPDATE – 6 Oct: This in from John Echave, Executive Producer, LS Films/Blue Lagoon Productions…

Ni Syndication the photo library of newspaper group News International have been through their vast archive at Wapping and discovered more archival images of Steve Jobs – scanned and online now here or click the selection above.…

Martin Schwimmer, a partner in Leason Ellis, an IP law boutique in White Plains, NY, reports on his blog The Trademark Blog: ‘Readers of the blog know that the CAR FRESHNER people, owners of the mark consisting of the product configuration of a tree-shaped air freshener, know where the court…

Photo agency Noor have announced two new photographer members, Andrea Bruce and Giancarlo Ceraudo. NOOR members are now Nina Berman, Philip Blenkinsop, Pep Bonet, Andrea Bruce, Giancarlo Ceraudo, Alixandra Fazzina, Jan Grarup, Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Kadir van Lohuizen, Jon Lowenstein and Francesco Zizola and managing director Claudia Hinterseer.…

Pond5 an ‘online marketplace for stock media and creative components’ has announced that its stock collection now includes more than 800,000 royalty-free stock video clips. “We’re looking to build the most artist-friendly marketplace for stock media on the web,” says Tom Bennett, co-founder and CEO of Pond5, “as well as…

Fashion clothing company Carhartt have included a twin lens reflex camera in the fall/winter collection…. The say: The Blackbird Fly is modelled on the classic twin-lens medium format camera Rolleiflex, the double-barrel 35-mm-film camera used by Andy Warhol and James Dean. Its old-fashioned style is guaranteed to bring the pleasure…

4 Oct: Spotted this morning on twitpic – ‘Mirrorpixies’ Mel and Lucy (from photo library MirrorPix) preparing tables ahead of the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Awards last night.  – what’s with the headset Mel?! UPDATE: 6 Oct: Mel wrote in:” The headset is to communicate with the upstairs office…

Reuters photographers talk about shooting the Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand by Tim Wimborne – Reuters Chief Photographer – Australia and New Zealand Tim is Reuters picture editor at the Rugby World Cup.…

‘Steve Jobs passes away at 56’ – Photo agency Newscom have prepared a image-ready gallery of the Apple co-founder throughout his career. This gallery is updating automatically every few minutes as press images report reaction to the news around the world – click the gallery selection above to visit ‘Steve…

Photo shows one of photographer Tjaart van Staden images used on the front cover of a recent Bradt Guide This in from Gwyn Headley at UK based photo agency fotoLibra. Hello Will, Sad news: one of our top photographers [Tjaart van Staden] has died in a microlight plane crash in…

There is still time to get an ‘early-bird’ booking for PACA’s (Picture Archive Council of America)  16th International Conference takes place in New York, October 21-23, 2011. More and full details on our US stock industry news site:  AboutTheImage.com…

An image (above) from UK based independent photo agency Photoshot (credited: Fotogramma/Photoshot/Newscom) was the only photo agency featured outside the ‘Pool’ photos used in a Bloomberg report early this morning covering the Amanda Knox acquittal  – above is the photo – click here for the Bloomberg article…

Corporate photographer Lionel Derimais is back in Europe after 6 years in China and available for photographic work.  “Business portraits, reportage photography (indoor and outdoor) and architecture for annual reports and magazines are the fields I usually cover”. Details and portfolio’s here…

from the AP notice put out to AP retirees and sent to us by an Ex AP man and PAN reader: AP retiree Myron Belkin says a memorial service is set for Oct. 6 for London darkroom staffer Stan Grain. Belkind, a former assistant chief of bureau and bureau chief…

The Young Photographers Alliance – ypa –  has announced it’s third annual Scholarship Award Ceremony & Benefit Auction being held at Calumet (New York) on Wednesday October 19th, 2011. Event tickets and details here: ypa…

Photographer Paolo Woods has joined photo agency INSTITUTE – Paolo Woods ran a laboratory and a photo gallery in Florence, Italy, before dedicating himself to documentary photography. He is devoted to long-term projects that blend photography with investigative journalism….. full details on Paolo and links to his photo features at…

UK based travel photo library 4Corners secured the front cover of this month’s Wanderlust magazine with a shot by contributing photographer Manfred Bortoli of a guy taking the plunge off Gozo.…