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According to The Baron (an open, free and independent website. Its sole purpose is to communicate topical and historical information of interest to Reuters people past and present) – news agency Reuters are speeding up their merger of news pictures and video news into a single department. Read on at…

Shutterstock have launched a ‘premium tier of royalty-free video content’ called Shutterstock Select a curated edit of 10,000 premium 4K video clips filmed using cinema-grade gear. They say: This new offering of content offers the highest production value available in the industry and features in-demand content categories such as cinematic…

The French press photo agency Cosmos photo is in liquidation  – officially declared bankrupt 25th October by the Tribunal of the Paris Chamber of Commerce. COSMOS distribution photo agencies around the world are contacting photographers re continued representation. For the record, here is the detail about the agency – in case…

Celebrity photo agency IMP Features have kicked off December with a festive offer for contributing photographers – All exclusive image sales will be paid instantly throughout December. This offer is open to both existing and new photographers to the agency. They say: ‘The moment a sale is confirmed/published, IMP Features will…

These photos show the darkroom staff of Central Press photo agency during their lunch breaks in late 1960’s Over on my The Press Photo History project I published the full set …..and I am always looking for more. [email protected]…

Shutterstock just confirmed a ‘knock out’ new service – they are ready to clear image rights and usage for advertising via rights specialist Greenlight. Greenlight clears content with rights holders for use in commercial advertising and corporate campaigns and Greenlight also represents the rights for some of the biggest icons,…

Building story … All photo agencies will need to really start sharpening their marketing skills here… Getty Images has reached an agreement with Koch Equity Development LLC (KED), the investment arm of Koch Industries, whereby KED will make a $500 million non-controlling preferred equity investment in the company. • Under…

This morning the Mega Agency expanded their celebrity photo database by 2.5 million images from the Phil Ramey photo agency, one of the world’s classic entertainment archives. Paul Tetley, Mega’s Chief Operating Officer told PhotoArchiveNews.com over the weekend: “Phil Ramey is a legendary photographer and through the iris of his long…

Spotted a nifty marketing email from New York based photo library Trunk Archive land on the inbox this week – preparing photo creatives for spring – view their Bold & Bright images Here!…

Smart move here from Shutterstock who this week announced a new content integration within Final Cut Pro X. The Shutterstock extension is the only stock footage extension to be integrated with the release of Final Cut Pro X, offering more than 250 million video, image, and music assets available for…

  This film still wins the PAN top stock photo usage of the week prize  – that flat white at the London Bridge Grind Paul! Mary Evans dug into their unrivalled film stills stock collection to provide the perfect front cover image for the hotly-anticipated new album from The Good,…

Lovely short film here shot last week in the Getty Images archive London where actor Stephen Thompkinson, who is currently playing ‘Scrooge’ in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic London, went to meet archive director Matt Butson to view and discover images of Charles Dickens from the collection.…

The David Hill Gallery in London are running their second George Rodger photo exhibition (the first was last year) ‘In the heart of the Sudan, and to the west of the White Nile, there is a strange and unreal land, which the hand of time has hardly touched in passing.’  George Rodger  Leaving…

Cracking signing here for London based online photo print store Sonic Editions  – they just added an edit from the Life Picture Collection to their already impressive photo offering. Sonic say: ‘The photographers you’ll find in the Life Picture Collection include such greats as Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, John Dominis…

Owen Beiny – the son of WENN CEO Lloyd Beiny – is leaving the paparazzi agency after 19 years to start his own business. Owen who has headed up the agency’s Los Angeles office for the last 12 years  – he was only meant to be there for a month – is…

Getty Images is going to license footage from the the BBC Motion Gallery for another five years  – exclusively. The first deal was struck in 2013.…

A new photo copyright checking service from PAN…

  The New York Times are digitising 6M prints from their photo archive to use as story content in the newspaper – Google are helping them with the process – ‘making use of numerous tools within Google Cloud Platform that allow them to securely store their images, provide them with…