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…just in…. Paparazzi photographer Peter Carrette owner of Australian photo agency Icon Images died at home in Sydney on Sunday night aged 63. ✮ Report here by The Sydney Morning Herald ……Colleagues became concerned after Carrette failed to answer repeated phone calls on Sunday. His body was found slumped by…

LNP ‘A collaborative photographic agency run by professional editorial photographers working in London and throughout the UK. Supplying quality news and features pictures to publications worldwide.’ You can follow the build up to launch and business over the next few days via their Twitter page…

click for galleries About:Prize founder Fiona Gifford explains, “The Renaissance Photography Prize is an international photography competition which raises money to support younger women with breast cancer. I founded the competition in 2007 when I was myself diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 34 and am delighted that,…

Diego Maradona celebrates his team’s goal against Nigeria during the 2010 World Cup Group B soccer match at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg June 12, 2010. Photo by Eddie Keogh winner of the British Airways Sports Photographer of the Year The first-ever winners of the UK Picture Editors’ Guild press…

The Marsden Archive – a UK based picture library specialising in the ‘fantastic and the supernatural’ – have released a new set of images featuring Russian locations.…

Breaking….. 4pm – the deal is off! – details as we get them….. 4.05pm – 6pm – the phone is ringing off the hook – voice mails are queued up, emails are flying, the industry is alive! 6.15pm – This in from Alison Crombie at Getty Images who we emailed…

Mary Evans, Founder of Mary Evans Picture Library, has died. An announcement was made on the Mary Evans homepage this morning. ‘Mary Evans 1936-2010 It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Mary Evans. Along with her husband Hilary, Mary founded the Library in 1964. By this…

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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,…