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:: 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…

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…