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This in from a UK editorial photo agency boss who wanted to introduce a new ‘Snapper’ to the company via an email from his phone……

Along with a new logo launch Berlin based photo independent mauritius images GmbH now have a tumblr blog which reports agency news (see the team on a break in the Karwendel mountains) and shows off selections from their 30 million stock images.…

Shutterstock are continuing to boost their editorial photo department with the hire of Michele Stueven who was People Magazine’s Los Angeles Deputy Photo Chief and Video Producer for 18 years. At People Michele produced and supervised photo shoots for the cover and inside stories as well as coordinated and supervised…

California based editorial photo giant ZUMA Press are now representing images from Fairfax Syndication which includes a range of Australian content from a portfolio of over 300 publications and websites. They say: Bernie Callan, Director, Fairfax Syndication, said “We’re very excited to be partnering internationally with ZUMA, recognised as one…

Shutterstock just went through the 60M image mark in it’s collection. To mark the milestone they produced “A Is for the Artist” above with rapper Paul Yutaka (himself a designer and filmmaker) – ‘celebrates everything we love about design and the creative process.’…

ITN Source has signed its first stock footage distribution agreement with North America-based agency Dissolve. Full details on our Footage News site now.…

The UK’s oldest photo licensing company Francis Frith has landed a great licensing deal with Ancestry.co.uk ‘the world’s largest online family history resource.’ PAN reader John Buck, owner of the Francis Frith collection told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning: “We have granted Ancestry an exclusive licence to use Frith photos in the…

Photo: WENN’s CEO Lloyd Beiny and Admin Director Jackie Ashby celebrate the announcement of WENN’s acquisition of Cover Media. Celebrity and entertainment news agency WENN ‘has concluded arrangements’ to both acquire Cover Media and to launch a new business called Indulge House. WENN CEO Lloyd Beiny comments, “This is a…

Great new look at GettyImages.com this week, the mosaic photo selections make the most of a single home page showing off a wider selection of their ‘180M assets’ offering.…

View over 10 years of stock photo industry interviews with some of the most important people who still affect the industry, Alan Smith, owner at Topfoto was our first sitter in April 2004 …lots more in the planning…

Shutterstock reported on their Q2 results today – highlights are: Second quarter revenue increased 30% as compared to the second quarter of 2014 to $104.4 million; · ​Revenue per download increased 13% and paid downloads increased 14%; · Our user base expanded to approximately 1.3 million customers, up 25% versus…

akg-images the rights managed photo archive specialising in history, fine art and photography will have a new Managing Director at it’s London office from Friday August 21. Current Managing Director David Price-Hughes is leaving the archive ‘to pursue other business opportunities within the industry’ and Angelika Pirkl (above) who has…

Another Planet News photo search on our Press Photo History Project…

Congrats to Paul Brown (above in action) MD at Mary Evans Picture Library and Ardea who landed another of his personal photo assignments “Rabbit Island” on three UK national newspaper websites this week …scroll down for links to the those. Paul, just back from Japan, told PhotoArchiveNews.com: “Tucked away off…

Newsreel archive British Pathé has appointed BBC veteran Zoe Moore Business Development Manager with responsibility for clients in the UK, Europe and Asia. She will license footage from British Pathé’s collection of 85,000 films. Full details on our FootageNews.com site…

With $2.2 million in support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and in partnership with Artstor, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is offering 42 liberal arts colleges and universities the opportunity to join its Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Research. The Consortium intends to improve teaching and…

This in from a PPHP visitor – journalist Russell Hays – who is looking to clear copyrights on a motor industry book. He is currently clearing material with Mirrorpix, Topfoto, LAT and Fox Photos but needs help locating an agency called Tella or Brook Tella which operated during the 1930’s…

Photo: Mirror photographer Monte Fresco in the Azteca Stadium – 1970 World Cup tournament in Mexico. May 1970. Self portrait © Mirrorpix – click the image to view Monte’s images The Royal Mint is looking for the next face of the £20 note and Mirror newspaper photographer photographer Monte Fresco…