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A selection of images from the Magnum Photos archives are now available to license through photo agency plainpicture in Hamburg. The photo editors at planinpictures have done a great job editing the Magnum collection selecting clean commercial stock images to fit their own creative photo buyer client needs… They say:…

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As part of a new relationship between UK picture library association BAPLA and PhotoArchiveNews.com we will be reporting on the work BAPLA is doing to uphold image copyright protection through the UK and European Law creators. here’s their latest update: ERR Bill becomes law The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill,…

Picture Editors at Newsweek and The Palm Beach Post were winners at the The NPPA – National Press Photographers Association’s Best Of Photojournalism 2013 Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year awards. The picture desk team at the LA Times and zReportage by photo agency ZUMA were among the honours. Full…

Frankfurt base photo agency epa -european pressphoto agency- is celebrating it’s tenth birthday with a collection of the most outstanding epa images spanning the past decade has been compiled as a slide show (above) available also an e-book. Hannah Hess, Editor-in-Chief of epa, said: “Ten years ago the then existing…

Salt Lake City based photo agency Newscom have announced the launch of a new photo resource, a sister company, Pixation Images providing ‘creative content for commercial use.’ Pixation Images is providing travel, stock, lifestyle, and creative imagery from stock photography partners like akg-images, Cultura, Danita Delimont , DPA, imagebroker,Robert Harding…

Updated article: Specialist health, beauty and wellness image library urbanlip.com are re-running their popular offer from last year’s Fotofringe. …and the winner is: ‘We’re thrilled to announce that the winner of our fotofringe competition is Eve George, picture director of Daily Mail, YOU Magazine. She was only one lip away…

Joanna Smith who was by the side of Cepic President Alan Smith [owner of picture library Topfoto] for the formative years of 1997 to 2009 and Chairman in the founding years of Bapla died peacefully on the 19 April 2013 aged 75 years. A private funeral will be held today…

↑ UK: Women’s weekly title Best, published by Hearst Magazines UK, has unveiled a new website and new-look magazine. They say: Best has responded to these new findings in the re-development of both magazine and website – with bestdaily.co.uk the only online leisure, shopping and entertainment destination catering for this…

BBC reports: ‘Photography groups have reacted angrily to new legislation passed in Parliament over the use of copyrighted material when the owner cannot be contacted.’ Full report here: bbc.co.uk…

and the winner is … Toby Hopkins (Senior Account Manager, Publishing) from Corbis writes: ‘Corbis had a great day. Over 150 people entered our prize draw to win the Diana De Luxe camera kit from Lomography. We’ve just pulled the winner’s name – congratulations to Susie Peachey of Dorling Kindersley,…

Thank you for coming to fotoFringe on Wednesday and visiting us at the StockFood table. As promised, we’ve selected one business card at random and the lucky winner will receive a free canvas print. With over 500,000 images on www.stockfood.co.uk to chose from, this is a great chance to add…

890 picture buyers registered in advance 700 visitors throughout the day Flora Nedelcu, organiser of fotofringe London: “This, the third fotofringe day, looks like the best yet. 890 picture buyers/art buyers/designers registered in advance. On the day we had 700 people through the doors and found ourselves recycling the hand…

at The Fleet Street Press cafe, 3 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1AU ‘Following the kind offer of space on the walls of the wonderful ” Fleet Street Press” cafe some like minded National Press Photographers have curated and hung an exhibition of some of the best Press Photography in The…

↑ Sal Shuel of BAPLA draws the winning business card with Bryan & Cherry Alexander of Arctic Photo ↑ …and the winner is – Helen Wilson, Content Sales Manager Guardian / Observer …enjoy! ↑ photos: PhotoArchiveNews.com This just in from fotofringe exhibitor Arctic Photo who have just moved offices to…

Make sure to visit the Mary Evans Picture Library table today at fotofringe London and view a selection of images from the Natural History Museum. They have just announced their representation agreement with the Natural History Museum, Britain’s magnificent repository of more than 70 million plant, animal, insect, fossil and…

After five years development work, Skyscan have launched a new online map-based search facility to search for historic and modern oblique aerial photos of the UK by postcode. Library Manager Brenda Marks says ” There are many years of cataloguing still required to geocode every photograph but we currently have…

fotofringe exhibitor Nature Picture Library are giving away 3 WWF animal adoption packs (worth £50 each) at their table today, all you need to do is leave your business card with Tim, Helen, Tim and Laura.…