dpa news agency in Germany reports solid economic performance for 2025 – ‘Revenue for dpa GmbH rose to €107.4 million (2024: €105.5 million), and the annual surplus increased to €1.6 million (2024: €1.4 million). Group revenue declined slightly to €159.8 million (2024: €161.5 million), while total operating performance rose to €169.8 million (2024: €168.2 million). Amid a challenging market environment, dpa fulfilled its core editorial mission as a reliable news provider.’
Move along please people …nothing to see here – the proposed Getty Images merger with Shutterstock is off …
With the British Grand Prix approaching fast Mary Evans have been scanning through the archive to show off their GP photo collections – the Brooklands Museum Collection and the GP Archive.
• The Brooklands, includes construction of its circuit at Weybridge, famous meetings and drivers including Selwyn F. Edge, Kay Petre and Malcolm Campbell.
• The GP Archive gives us photographs from Grand Prix and other motor races from the 1950s to the 1980s, featuring many icons of the sport – Stirling Moss, Jackie Stewart, Jack Brabham and James Hunt.
The Trunk Archive collection have curated a delicious autumnal edit of images from their contributing photographers – here.
The Science Photo Library in the UK are celebrating the deep blue sea – ‘Less than a quarter of the ocean floor has been mapped and there is still more to be discovered. An estimated 700,000 species inhabit these waters — most of them undiscovered, unphotographed and unnamed.’ View their Blue Planet Collection.