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The winning shot; Bibi Aisha, disfigured as punishment for fleeing her husband’s house, Kabul, Afghanistan – Jodi Bieber/INSTITUTE for Time The jury of the 54th World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by South African photographer Jodi Bieber as the World Press Photo of the Year 2010 More from…

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) interviewed PicScout’s Amy Love at Macworld last month about appropriate image usage and the benefits of using ImageExchange. The interviewer knew his stuff, as evidenced by this cautionary comment (without any prep from PicScout) to his loyal Apple followers: “When you see an image on…

Watch: Greenpeace through the lens: Photographer Pierre Gleizes Greenpeace – the world’s largest environmental campaigning organisation – is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2011. As part of the communication work to celebrate this anniversary, they have created a short, three minute multi media production featuring French photographer Pierre Gleizes celebrating…

Click the Dodo to view a selection from the Ashmolean UK photo resource, Mary Evans Picture Library, is now representing images from the archives of Britain’s oldest museum, the Ashmolean. Founded in 1683, the Ashmolean Museum began as a cabinet of curiosities developed by royal gardener and traveller, John Tradescant.…

Royalty-free photo agency Fotolia has announced that it has made a strategic investment ($750,000USD) in AudioMicro, a collection of user-generated royalty free music and sound effects. Fotolia and AudioMicro intend to collaborate on new projects, each targeting a different content vertical. They intend to launch four of these projects by…

NHNZ Moving Images have scrapped the industry norm minimum-per-clip practice, and instead are offering their rights managed collections on a per-second basis, with no minimums – enabling more flexibility and giving your production budget a break. they say: “View our extraordinary video images online at nhnzmovingimages.com and receive professional service,…

techcrunch reports that Getty Images video has signed a deal to represent content from Crane.tv, a premium online video magazine for contemporary culture, which has figured out how to produce video aimed at a high-end audience. Read more at techcrunch…

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page 4 – Revealing The Archive UK photo library Mary Evans have published the 4th issue of their thrice yearly photo magazine Me&You – click the photo above to view the online version and a chance to win a &pound100 Amazon voucher! The magazine is distributed free to clients to…

Press Association Images has agreed to distribute user-generated photographs from award-winning citizen journalism service Demotix. [see their banner ad to the right of this page] The deal, which covers distribution rights in the UK and Ireland, marks the first time Press Association Images has worked with citizen photography. Turi Munthe,…

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Fleet Street photographer of 30 years, Harry Page is online with his new website: www.harrypage.com His local paper picked up his story: Picture perfect website for photographer…

‘What makes a good photograph?’ asks Eamonn McCabe, as he talks through his experience of being a photographer, picture editor at The Guardian and his latest project. McCabe has answered that question with the book Decade. A tomb of 500 of the best photographs selected from the first ten years…

Camera Press writes: Former Tom Blau Gallery curator, Keith Cavanagh who died January 28th aged 58 was “an impassioned campaigner for photography for over 30 years,” writes Simon James MD of EC1 Publishing. “He supported many photographers, particularly young practitioners looking for help in achieving their work’s first public airing.”…

Oceanic Media Group are looking for a Photo Sales Manager based at their Sydney offices… They say: * Work for one of Australia’s leading celebrity photo agencies * Inner West Location – Stanmore * Circa Package – $55k (Neg on Exp) + super + phone * Flexible working hours “This…

Camera Press are looking for an Account Manager to join their Magazine team to cover maternity leave. Responsibilities include: – Picture Research. – Negotiating and agreeing fees with publications. – Placement of New/Exclusive Material. – Developing new markets and exploring new ideas. – Marketing new sets. – Working as part…

London based documentary photographer Phil Clarke-Hill will be back in Brazil and Bolivia to complete ongoing photographic projects from the middle of February, whilst there he is available for photographic assignment. 22nd Feb – 24th March: La Paz, Bolivia and surrounding area. Projects during these dates include: Shoeshine boys of…

Contract publisher Seven have announced a partnership with celebrity picture agency, Big Pictures, to launch a series of celeb-based iPhone apps. Launching April the apps will provide photo galleries, video content, gossip and biographies of some of the UK’s most popular celebrities. Haymarket Media Group: Autocar brings Fast Cars to…