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PA Group (Press Association) has added international celebrity and entertainment picture agency All Action Digital to its photo stable. ‘The acquisition significantly boosts the celebrity archive and new picture production, which will be available to customers through EMPICS, PA Group’s photo licensing division’. All Action was founded by photographer Duncan…

Report digital photographer Jess Hurd has returned from Brazil with pictures from the World Social Forum and also of poverty in Brazil. Photographer, David Mansell has joined the agency bringing his extensive catalogue of “hard to find” UK MP’s to which will soon be added his social issue pictures. reportdigital.co.uk…

Horst Faas, 71, now retired after a lifetime with The Associated Press, has covered Olympic Summer and Winter Games since 1972. In Athens he worked as a photo editor in the International Olympic Photo Pool (IOPP). He gave Photo Archive News his assessment of Athens 2004, the Olympic Summer Games…

The next CEPIC Congress, the market place for Agents from all over the world, will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 10 to 13 June 2004. This year will see one of the largest meetings of picture providers from across the world ever! 600 Delegates from 333 Companies from 48…

The Picture Editors’ Awards recognise and reward the very best of photographic journalism throughout the UK and Ireland. The 2004 awards were presented at a ceremony in the Great Hall of Guildhall in London, before an audience drawn from politics, publishing, and the photographic industry.…

The purchase of EMPICS, and the merger of its vast sports photo library with that of The Press Association (PA), will greatly boost the position of PA in the picture syndication market, and improve its range of services to customers.…

In this issue – Marcus Bleasdale, IPG, 3P, Desert Dolphin, Ulf Wallin, Tim Sager, Photoarts, Stockbyte, Core, Moodboard, Beach Feature, Topham Picturepoint, Scotland in Focus, Business AM, Queerstock, Community Faces, ZUMA Press, Eyevine, Air Team Images, BPPA and Wi-Fi, Temple Bar on Fleet Street, Magnum, Debbie Fleming Caffery…

In this issue – Reuters, Corbis, Dorling Kindersley, Pearson/FT Group, Zefa Visual Media, Masterfile, Index Stock Imagery, Avenue Images, Chinapix, Universal Pictorial Press & Agency (UPPA), image100, ZUMA Press, DOUBLEtruck, World Press Photo contest, Polaris Images, Sports Features Singles, World Press Photo contest, The Picture Editors’ Awards, ei8ht, Jill Howell,…