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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…

Sports Photography agency Offside have announced the start of a special relationship with Marca, the world famous Spanish sports newspaper. From November 2007, Offside will syndicate the picture content of Marca in the UK. The quality of their collection is second to none. Not only does it offer a historical…

MEMENTO MORI – CHURCHES & CHURCHYARDS OF ENGLAND Published by ENGLISH HERITAGE Simon Marsden, who has gained worldwide renown for his evocative photography, has always been fascinated by English churches and churchyards and their funereal art and monuments. So, on his most recent tour of the country, he selected his…

2.5 milliion images online | 1500 images added each day | 2,300 downloads each day “We wanted to showcase the vast range and depth of picture content that Rex has to offer, in our own distinctive Rex way,” says Larry Lawson, Director of Sales and Marketing…..”There’s a new live-feed page…

From the press release…. Picture Editors’ Awards 2007 – Launch & call for entries 18th May 2007 “We are delighted to announce the launch of the 2007 Picture Editors’ Awards. We will open for entries during tomorrow and we will notify you as soon as you can send in your…

Getty Images have bought citizen journalism photo agency Scoopt Scoopt.com (someone sold the URL) “New technology has made it easier to capture and distribute imagery, leading to citizen photojournalism that is increasingly relevant to the news cycle,” said Jonathan Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images. “While this genre will…