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Chasing the Royals at 9 pm on CBC-TV

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.…

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Spotted: ‘Unusable’ Stock Photos

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…

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View Pushes ‘Interiors’ Collection

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…

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New Site: Infradox – “More Media Than IT”

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…

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City Launches Photo Archive

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…

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Freelance Photojournalist Killed In Tikrit

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…

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Call for Entries open now: The Framepool/ LBB/ FireFlies Challenge

Framepool, a footage collection run by filmmakers, opens their call for entries for the 2011 Framepool/ LBB/ FireFlies Challenge. This successful short-film competition is aimed at directors from all over the world, who want to present their films to a highly prominent jury – whilst supporting a good cause at…

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Camera Press Invites You To FotoFringe London – 11 May

FotoFringe London exhibitor Camera Press are looking forward to the ‘person to person network event’ on May 11 inviting designers, publishers and picture researchers with an invite directly from their home page contact Steve Hodgson – s.hodgson@camerapress – to book your slot with Camera Press and get to learn the…

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FotoFringe London: 43 Specialist Photo Agencies Under One Roof

Battlebridge Room Terrace – Photo credit: Kings Place Publishers, designers, art directors, creatives, picture editors and researchers, and professional picture buyers of all kinds are invited to enjoy free entry to meet 43 key image suppliers on 11 May at the FotoFringe London – Drop in or make appointments, or…

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Majority World Agency Secures Start Up Investment

UK based, ‘socially responsible image agency’ Majority World has announced that it has secured vital new start up investment from Stichting DOEN in the Netherlands as well as from two of its founder directors. As a result of this vote of confidence, the agency can now embark on its ambitious…

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Veer Launches Image Protection Plan For Image Buyers

Veer offer ‘Extended Customer Protection Plan’, providing customers with up to $250,000(USD) coverage for 100 Veer Credits The Extended Customer Protection Plan gives customers added peace of mind that they are legally protected from claims of infringement of intellectual property from the copyright holder of the image, from models within…

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Celebs Now At At StockPhotography

UK based photo library StockPhotography.co.uk has added 3,000 new British celebrity shots to its image offering including British actors, musicians, TV and sporting personalities.…

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2011 RHS Photographic Competition Opens For Entries

James Arnold, RHS Licensing Manager: ‘As a charity, the RHS is dedicated to inspiring millions of people to garden, and this competition is a true celebration of the beauty of gardens, their plants and their wildlife. ‘We’re looking for photographs which leap from the page, and are not only well-composed,…

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UK Ministry of Defence Images: Libya

Cockpit View from VC10 Tanker Aircraft as it Takes off to Support Enforcement of the No Fly Zone over Libya – click image for more at Defense Images on Flickr For all images and general licensing details visit Defense Images Database, an official Ministry of Defence website holds thousands of…

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‘Photo collection free to a good home’

The Photoarchivenews.com office spotted this yesterday on a forum: ‘I have recently been left a large collection of original aircraft photos in a will. They are a mixture of colour prints and slides, numbering several thousand, and dating from about 1980-ish to last year; mostly UK, but some in the…