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.