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Photolibrary.com Chirman Tim Moore speaks with Dynamic Export magazine about the growth of the agency. ‘Competing with the likes of Bill Gates’ Corbis and privately owned Getty Images, Moore has concentrated on differentiation to gain market share. He looks for specialty brands with niche photography. ‘That allows us to walk…

Reports suggest the news agency New Zealand Press Association may close. nzherald.co.nz reports: Staff were called to a meeting late this afternoon where it was announced the organisation is under review. full article here: nzherald.co.nz UPDATE – New Zealand Press Association has closed with the loss of 44 jobs… more…

Ex Fleet Street Photographer – Neville Marriner gets in touch with the PPHP Press Photo History Project Where was that shot?, Mark Rowe, the author of a cricket book The Victory Tests, would love to know where the photo on his book’s cover was taken. The answer is now online:…

Searching For: Joe Illingworth and photographer Herbert Dewhirst Looking For: Holloway and Sons Bristol Searching For: ‘Tomorrow’s News’ agency London www.pressphotohistory.com www.pressphotohistory.com…

Video platform and footage licensing services agency Thought Equity Motion, Inc., has announced that it is working with Discovery Communications to unlock the value of its video archive. Thought Equity will be providing digitization, delivery, and ‘smart content’ metadata services for its new footage licensing business, Discovery Access. ‘This platform…

The Guardian won newspaper of the year at The Press Awards last night in London. Photography prizes went to: Photographer of the Year Winner: Matt Cardy, Getty Images Sports Photographer of the Year: Winner: Mark Pain, Mail on Sunday Highly Commended: John Giles, Press Association Full Winners List…

SKY News presenter Anna Botting has returned from presenting live coverage of the Japanese tsunami to present the most prestigious event in the newspaper industry’s calendar. She will host The Press Awards today and the ceremony will be broadcast live over the internet and via Twitter (@pressawardsuk) The Press Awards…

RM or RF? Can you tell the difference? Photo agency Aurora Photos have added royalty free images to their collection. To mark the event they are giving you a chance to win an iPad – ‘Guess at least 3 out of 5 pairs correctly and be entered to win an…

UK newspapers Daily Sport and Sunday Sport have gone into administration and stopped publication. ‘If no buyer is found, the Sport will be the first UK national newspaper to close since the demise of News International’s Today in November 1995’ report BBC News…

click to view images, NB you will have to register before you can browse… Specialist sports photo agency Colorsport Images Ltd can now offer picture desks 300,000 images – online. Colorsport Chief Executive James Pinniger told Photoarchivenews.com this morning: “In the two years I have been here, the library team…

This week photoarchivenews.com initiative The Press Photo History Project has helped the production team of a Terence Rattigan documentary on BBC Four find the correct copyright holders for images they wanted to use in the programme…… read the details and check if your photos are up for a fee! –…

Following ‘Marketing the Monarchy’ is a second documentary on American prime time TV this evening, Chasing The Royals by Award-winning Canadian filmmaker John Curtin featuring the Royal Family and it’s ‘relationship’ with the press. ‘The goings-on in the House of Windsor has been Britain’s most popular soap opera for years.…

UK based stock photo site Alamy reports it added two million images over the last four months taking the overall image’s offered to twenty three million….get searching!…

BuzzFeed reports: 60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos – ‘A collection of unexplainable, bad stock photos via Awkward Stock Photos.’ – not sure what the legal departments will make of this feature but we guess it’s all good exposure for the photo agencies involved… – Thanks EL for pointing us to…

click for the set UK based architectural and interiors photo library View Pictures have uploaded four new interiors image sets, the one above is by photographer Edmund Sumner of a house in Delhi, India. Designed by Norfolk based Hudson Architects, the house is for an extended Indian family with a…

click to view the new site Infradox, ‘mission critical web solutions for photo libraries’, from web technology company Xpertise ICT BV have a new website. MD at Xpertise ICT BV, Martin Wilmsen, told photoarchivenews.com: “We’ve been developing and hosting solutions for picture libraries on our Infradox software for well over…

click for the BBC’s Salford slideshow The University of Salford is launching a photo archive of the city with an exhibition documenting 50 years of the archive’s history. The photographs included in the exhibition offer a glimpse into the changing social and economic landscape of Salford. Salford in Pictures, F14…

photo: Iraqi journalist Sabah al-Bazee. Reuters/Files Reuters reports: The freelancer who worked for Reuters was among at least 20 people killed on Tuesday when gunmen attacked a local government building in Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Sabah al-Bazee, 30, who had contributed to Reuters in Iraq…