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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…

From today (12th February 2007) photo library Reportdigital.co.uk will be representing the photographs of Exile Images. Report Digital is already well known for their high quality critical realism in depicting the UK. The addition of Exile Images to Report Digital’s growing international stock will offer Exile and Report Digital clients…

This from the Awards Chairman, Glyn Genin Despite our best efforts, it has not been possible to raise sufficient funding to allow the Awards to go forward into 2007. The Picture Editors’ Awards were founded more than 14 years ago, and we are grateful to all the photographers, picture editors…

Simon Marsden of The Marsden Archive (mesmeric images of ancient ruins and landscapes in his distinctive, gothic style) will be giving the the Annual Exhibition Lecture at the Bromley Camera Club (UK). Entitled “The Journal of a ghost hunter” the lecture is on Thursday 27 April – full details from:…

This just in…. Matrix founder Max Cisotti leaves for Retna Managing Director of Retna Pictures, Tim Forrester, announced today (2nd December, 2005) that Max Cisotti, co-founder of Matrix Syndication International Press Agency Ltd, is joining Retna Pictures with immediate effect. Max Cisotti becomes Director of Sales, and Steve Hodgson also…

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,…