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Corbis Images has named Barak Ronen as Senior Vice President of Media Products. As SVP of Media Products, Ronen will be based in London and responsible for the company’s Media product development and commercial strategy. Ronen has come from Reuters London where he was titled Vice President of Business Development…

£180 worth of images, illustration and fonts at Veer today – see AboutTheImage.com for the details.…

One of the longest serving press agencies in Southeast Asia, CPA Media has launched its own online picture library, Pictures From History / Pictures From Asia. The library offers an extensive range of historical photographs, classical art and ancient scriptures with roots firmly in Asia—from the Middle East to the…

Launched just a year ago by Dreams Group – Stockfresh now has over 1 million stock photos and vector graphics available for download. Stockfresh is the third stock photography related venture by Dream Group, the Hungarian team behind the popular Stockxpert and stock.xchng (SXC) sites (now operated by Getty Images)…

– IDS has announced a ’50 Million Images – Countdown Competition’ for users of their ‘one-stop image search platform. They say “IDS is swiftly approaching 50 Million images! As of Tuesday 6pm (Guessing that was 11th Oct) we had 49,870,000 and we reckon we’ll hit 50 million by the end…

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Next month, iStockphoto’s community of seven million members around the world are being urged to help bring awareness to men’s health concerns and prostate cancer by joining the company in support of Movember. Details at: AboutTheImage.com…

from the press release: – LONDON, 11th October, 2011: The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA) is waving a sad farewell to Executive Director, Simon Cliffe, who is leaving the Association after nearly three years in charge. – His appointment in 2008 followed a strategic review commissioned by…

When Cricket Was Cricket – click the cover to see the book at Haynes Drawing on 100 years editorial photography from their huge archive Mirrorpix have provided full image content for a new series of books with publisher Haynes. Above is the Cricket book, others include – Those Were The…

Isabelle Doran, Picture Library Manager at photo library Loupe Images, told PhotoArchiveNews.com:“Loupe Images is proud to announce that they remain among the few specialist boutique picture libraries that not only has an extensive collection of interiors, but also has not jumped on the bandwagon and syndicated to other picture agencies…

UK based news and features photo agency Barcroft Media are online with a new look website for their main News photo service and TV Features video production unit. Barcroft Media’s new sites run on the Picturemaxx platform, and uses much of their finance, delivery and storage technology.…

Goksin Sipahioglu, photojournalist and founder of photo agency Sipa, died this week. PAN article A commemorative service for Goksin Sipahioglu has been announced and will be held thursday, October 13th, at the Theatre de l”Europe – Theatre de l’Odeon, Place de l’Odeon in the 6th arrondissement of Paris at 11…

Photographer Dimitri Vervitsiotis, a contributor to Heritage Images (Imagestate Media Partners Ltd), has started a blog – https://imagestatecomplaints.blogspot.com/ documenting his struggle to get paid by the picture library. UPDATE 31 Jan 2012 (that blog has now been removed) I am a photographer and have had several hundred images with Imagestate…

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the fact that, although clearly identified, many journalists were attacked by police officers while covering yesterday’s anti-austerity protests and strikes in Athens. …An AFP photographer who did not want to be named had a tooth broken by a police riot shield that was deliberately…

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…