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Guess who? He gained a job at News of the World after a chance meeting with Rupert Murdoch. Two years later, he left to take a position with the Daily Mail, for whom he provided coverage of the Bosnian War. He often appears on radio and television programmes to speak…

FotoFringe London exhibitor Science and Society picture library are talking about the event on their news pages now: www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/news…

American garden photographer Stacy Bass is now being represented by Garden World Images. View the images…

AP reports: The Associated Press and Obey Clothing settle copyright infringement suit. The Associated Press and Obey Clothing, an apparel company and exclusive licensee of Shepard Fairey, have agreed to settle their high-profile copyright infringement lawsuit over Obey Clothing’s sale and distribution of apparel and other merchandise bearing the image…

Due to demand, stock photo event FotoFringe London has announced that a second major Hall at Kings Place has been booked to meet demand. The 21 picture libraries participating in fotofringe London at the stunning new Kings Space cultural centre are being joined by a further 20 agencies including AKG-Images,…

Getty Images will soon be offering the ‘interiors’ collection from UK photo library Gap Photos. Gap already provide botanical images to Getty, which will be re-branded as GAP Gardens.…

MEDIA EVENT AND FUNDRAISER Thursday 24 March 2011 at 7.30pm an exclusive screening of the stunning 60 minute ITV documentary Man to Manta, complete with an introduction from the show’s presenter, Martin Clunes (Doc Martin, Reggie Perrin, Men Behaving Badly), at London’s prestigious May Fair Hotel. The event organisers are…

UK IPC: Women’s monthly title Essentials has announced the appointment of Kate Mowatt as publisher. Most recently a publisher for Canada Wide Media in Vancouver, Kate has a strong publishing background. Her experience includes work for BBC Worldwide and she was previously launch publisher of Sunday Times Travel. UK Special-interest…

The Press Photo History project offers : – Image ownership tracing through our photo industry network – Photo collection valuation including probate valuations. – Photographic collection sales and acquisitions. – Photo collection editing, scanning and keywording. – Sourcing commercial partners for your images. – Online picture library systems for commercial…

The latest issue of Montage, a quarterly magazine from the UK Picture Researchers Association is out. This issue contains some interesting stock photo industry articles and Page 20 & 21 features an interview with me – Will Carleton…! Get your copy and learn more about the PRA here: Montage Magazine…

click the home page shot to explore the library UK based photo library fotoLIBRA now offers 500000 images covering a vast range of subjects. Owner Gwyn Headly explains his excitement on learning they had reached the Half Million mark: “WOW!!……When fotoLibra was just a glint in my eye in 2002,…

BREAKING……Hot on the purchase of celebrity photo agencies LFI and Idols, Photoshot have today bought interiors lifestyle photo library Red Cover. Red Cover went into administration a few weeks ago….. Charles Taylor, MD at Photoshot, contacted PhotoArchiveNews.com via mobile from his base in New York…. he’s having a busy week…

Royalty Free photo resource 123rf has opened a UK sales office. They say: ‘Following the success of offering ‘more for a lot less’ in other territories 123RF will now provide the UK market with a local service, fast response times, good advice and great offers. 123RF is intensifying its efforts…

The Star (Toronto) reports: Life magazine ‘duped’ over Eva Braun’s private photos …..’We’ve had them here since 1947,’ Edward McCarter, head of still photography at the archives, told the Star on Thursday. ‘Anyone could see them for free.’… Life magazine unveiled 30 pictures of Adolf Hitler’s mistress and wife ‘brought…

A PPHP reader has asked: Please could you let me know who owns the London Daily News photographic archive? UPDATE – FOUND: Answer from Chris at News Int photo archives on the PressPhotoHistory project.…

Photographer Eoin Mundow, owner at independent sports photo agency Cleva Media, {and ‘sometimes’ photoarchivenews.com pro sports photo reporter} sent in this report: “On Friday 11th Feb I traveled to Barcelona as I was intrigued to find out more about their youth academy. I had read various articles about La Masia…

BBC reports: Google donates to Mandela archive ‘Google is to donate $1.25m (&pound770,000) to a project that aims to create an archive of Nelson Mandela’s life. The Nelson Mandela Foundation Centre of Memory is digitising photographs, letters and other documents relating to the former South African president…..more here…

click the headline to see the images UK newspaper website Mail Online has today published a set of images confiscated by the U.S army in 1945 and recently unearthed at the U.S National Archives collection showing the private life of the Fuhrer’s long-time companion Eva Braun.…