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UK based celebrity photo agency Matrix Photos is supporting the Haiti Appeal donating £1 for every picture sale in the next 30 days. ‘Over the last few days, we have all been watching the horrific scenes on our screens from Haiti. We feel that this is a charity that needs…

Frank Evers and Matt Shonfeld have launched the INSTITUTE for Artist Management (IAM), an artist management and a multi-platform production company representing leading visual artists and storytellers from the world of photography and documentary filmmaking. INSTITUTE is based in Los Angeles, New York and London.…

Offside Sports Photography have launched their iconic World Cup Collection containing football images from every tournament since 1930. Over the past few years, Offside have been sourcing, licensing and buying collections of World Cup images including many pictures that are unseen. The Offside image collection includes the work of Gerry…

Offside Sports Photography are delighted to announce that they have 5 nominations for this year’s prestigious Barclays Photographic Awards, a competition which selects the best photographs and photographers from the Barclays Premier League football season, 2008-2009. Photographers Mark Leech, Glyn Thomas and Matt Roberts have all been nominated in the…

‘Jade – Remember me this Way’ – click book cover to buy MatrixPhotos has published a picture book of Jade Goody. Two partners at the London based agency, Danny Hayward and Simon Bridger were close friends with Jade for many years and spent the last seven years following her around…

Corbis and Retna (U.S.) have announced a new agreement to make Retna’s celebrity and entertainment photography available through Corbis. With the new partnership, Corbis is in the process of adding 250,000 images from the Retna archive and will be adding thousands more of the freshest images every week from Retna’s…

Snapixel is a new photography site that combines elements of the photo sharing site Flickr and the popular stock photography site Istockphoto, announces Openstock(TM), an innovative system that provides photographers with an easy-to-market solution to sell photos.…

Report Digital, a leading independent picture library, have launched their new website They’ve put together an edit of around 5000 pictures to give a flavour of what they’re about . The site is constantly updated with new pictures as they follow events such as the G20 protests John Harris at…

The Flickr blog is reporting ‘We won’t have to wait long until we see the end product. The Flickr Collection will debut on Getty Images in March.’ The 2nd phase of our partnership with Getty Images has launched. Invitations are being sent out en masse to photographers across the Flickrverse,…

PA Photos held a party last week at the Foreign Press Association to celebrate the launch of the 10-book series 20th Century Britain in Pictures PA Photos has been capturing news photography for more than a century. With an archive of over 15 million images, the agency holds one of…

Redferns Music Picture Library has been bought by Getty Images. Redferns Music Picture Library was founded in the early 1960s by photographer David Redfern. It has since grown to become the most comprehensive collection of music photographs in the world.…

THE HAUNTED REALM – 2009 & DRACULA – 2009 New calendars of Simon Marsden’s photography Here…

In line with their ‘Re-brand and Restructure Program’ announcement last month celebrity photo agency MatrixPhotos.com are now ready to present a new website. Take a tour here www.matrixphotos.com The agency is also recruiting photographers…. “we are currently recruiting two self motivated celebrity photographers. We offer a generous package for the…

:: PAN Exclusive / Breaking News :: After a hectic week of negotiations, the future of London Features International (LFI) as a photo agency is secure. Following smaller specialist acquisitions including the Royal Collection of John Shelley, Imvest ltd, the investment vehicle of David Jacobs has acquired the assets of…

Worldwide celebrity photo agency, Matrix, has confirmed a full Re-brand and Restructure Program. ‘Having spent the last seven months working at Matrix, Danny Hayward and Simon Bridger, formally of BBH Pictures and John Churchill, formally of Mirrorpix have shown their belief in the company by investing in it’s future.’ A…

from the Flickr blog: ……The great folks at Getty Images and Flickr are joining forces to create a collection of royalty free, rights ready and rights managed photographs. This announcement is just the first step and there’s a lot to do before we launch. We’ve created a FAQ to address…

How the financial press are reporting on the news: FT.com : Private equity firm to buy Getty Images for $2.4bn New York Times DealBook : Getty Images to Sell Itself for $2.4 Billion…

UK based photo agency Offside Sports Photography have boosted their archive by agreeing a deal to exclusively represent the John Varley collection. The collection contains iconic images from the 1960s through to the 1980s including football World Cups and Olympic games. Throughout this period, John also took great images from…