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Photo Cuisine say: “Visit us at FotoFringe on Wednesday 11 May, 2011 for a chance to win dinner for two at the worldwide acclaimed Hibiscus restaurant in London. Simply stop in to see us at table 4 in the St Pancras room and leave your business card, and a dining…

Photo library FLPA – ‘world class nature imagery’ – will be offering visitors to their table at fotofringe London a chance to win a wonderful weekend break in Suffolk. They say: “Jean and Jenny will be on Table 1A at FotoFringe London in the Battlesbridge Room, Kings Place, near Kings…

chose your subject and click through for the library Specialist stock photo resource GAP Photos & GAP Interiors are also giving you the chance to win an iPad2 at fotofringe London – Wednesday this week. Just drop by their table in the St Pancras room to enter. FotoFringe London Wednesday…

click the knickerbocker glories for The Retrograph Collection selection London based Mary Evans Picture Library have announce representation of a fabulously vibrant archive of commercial and graphic design pieces from the early to mid-20th century. The Retrograph Collection numbers nearly 2000 images and is brimming with retro chic, interesting typography…

Join Lebrecht Music & Arts in celebrating the launch of our new fine art collection at Fotofringe – a specialist archive for art and artists at www.art-images.co.uk Everyone who visits our table (Hall 2, table 10) and leaves their business card will be eligible to be included in the draw…

UK based photo library Specialist Stock will be launching it’s Premium Green Collection on Wednesday at the FotoFringe event. They Say: “The Premium Green Collection is edited from 20 world renowned collections that we represent with 1.6 million pictures on-line. The portfolio showcases the best of the 10,000 still images…

ITV Studios Global Entertainment, owner of Britain’s most prestigious classic feature film collection, has appointed The Kobal Collection, the leading film photo archive in private ownership, as a worldwide representative of its extensive archive of film stills. The ITVSGE catalogue comprises over 1,500 titles from many of the key film…

Stock photo agency Skyscan is now representing The Westair Aerial Archive a collection over 250,000 aerial photos of the UK captured since 1968 by Simon White and his father before him. The company was based in Weston-super-Mare and has extensive coverage of the west and south-west of England, but there…

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Follow what people are saying in the build up to fotofringe London at Google ‘Realtime’…

Gunter Sachs and Brigitte Bardot / picture alliance/ dpa Click photos for Gunter Sachs file photos available at dpa Picture-Alliance According to media reports the German photographer Gunter Sachs shot himself on 07 May in his house in Gstaad, Switzerland. Scroll through our Industry Links page to read more about…

San Francisco-based image technology company, Stipple, have launched Stipple Lens, a web-based service that licenses and monetizes editorial photos by connecting images to accurate search and social shopping information. They Say: “Lens is a web-based application that enables the content contained in photos to be accurately tagged. Lens distributes the…

Publishers, designers, art directors, creatives, picture editors and researchers, and professional picture buyers of all kinds are invited to enjoy free entry to meet 54 image suppliers on 11 May at the FotoFringe London – Drop in or make appointments, or both. Image Suppliers available on the day: 4Corners Images…

Trent Park running club after racing back to Rex’s Clerkenwell base. Photo by Scott Aiken This in from UK based photo agency Rex Features: Rex adopts a not-quite-so-novel approach to gathering its coverage of the Royal Wedding day. Faced with the enormous financial outlay of either leased lines or installing…

click for depth! Stock footage agency A Luna Blue have released Stereoscopic 3D to their royalty free content. They say “Fly through the heavens, see your brain, experience chaos in four formats: 4k Left and Right, HD Anaglyph, HD Left and Right, HD Stereo Pair’. The clips are available for…

Latest Press Photo History Project reader request: Searching for: ‘1948 Olympics’ Photographers Looking For: Ex Aspect Agency Photographers…

CEPIC reports: On 2 May we have 527 participants registered and counting! 527 delegates, 300 companies, 41 countries and five continents. Asia is more strongly represented than ever before with, amongst others, no less than 12 Chinese companies, 10 Korean and 5 Japanese companies. In total we have 41 companies…

Getty Images ‘Got it’! Getty Images has announced that it has ‘entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sydney-based photo agency Photolibrary’. They say:” The acquisition will benefit existing and potential customers, by making even more high quality and relevant imagery easily accessible to customers all over the world”…..Glenn Parker,…