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“The more I tried to understand Russia, the more lost I became. Russia is like a planet of its own.” Rafał Milach – click the image for the full feature Poland based documentary photographer Rafal Milach has joined photo agency Institute. Rafal graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice,…

The Margaret St Gallery in London is host to the Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA) group show, “Home”: YPA Mentoring 2012 Runs: 8 January 2013 – 17 January 2013 Margaret St Gallery 63 Margaret Street London W1W 8SW YPA’s Mentoring Programme links emerging talent with leading photographers and picture editors/ art…

Polaroid will use the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) as a platform to announce its plans for a series of experiential retail stores where consumers can quickly and easily liberate their favorite images from the confines of their digital devices and turn them into museum-quality art. Polaroid Fotobar stores will…

Daily Mail reports: ‘Justin Bieber has called for new laws for paparazzi following the ‘tragic’ death of a photographer who was run over and killed while taking pictures of the star’s sportscar.’ Full story here: dailymail.co.uk TMZ have this: Bieber Photog’s Death Who’s to Blame?…

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Fab presentation of their best images from specialist travel stock photo agency 4 Corners Images – click it! Steve Lake from the agency told me, “Happy New Year. Hope you had a good Christmas – To showcase some of the best Travel Photography of 2012 uploaded to 4Corners Images, we…

Hi Will, Happy New Year! I saw your top 10 article on Splash top sales in 2012. While we are far away from being that big as Splash, we did put together a top 5 of our top stories in 2012. Macaulay Culkin was a big one on TMZ.COM, while…

Splash News & Picture Agency have just sent me these photos, rounding up their top 10 selling celebrity photo packages of 2012 …v.surprised no other agency/library has put anything together ↑ Prince Harry along with friends in an exclusive, heavily guarded, VIP bungalow at Wet Republic in Las Vegas |…

Photoshelter are straight back into the photo marketing arena for 2013 with another free business guide 10 Branding Secrets for Photographers “It’s no secret that competition in the photography industry has gotten fierce. But what makes your photography business stand out from the crowd? First and foremost, it starts with…

Media law expert Charles Swan a partner at photo industry law firm Swan Turton reports: The Government has published its plans for further copyright exceptions in line with recommendations in the Hargreaves Review. It intends to bring the following exceptions into force in October 2013: details here…

‘London is becoming the top summer destination for super-rich Arab tourists and their supercars, but many Knightsbridge and Chelsea residents are now complaining of sleepless nights C4…But the ‘carparazzi’ are loving it! ‘ This Channel 4 documentary -by Oblong Films, Bristol- provides an insight into the influx of supercars and…

Dear Will, Please find as requested a few old photos of Central Press staff from 1965 to 1970, Regards, Alan Coomes Alan is on the right looking for a bus back to Fleet Street…. View all photos on the Press Photo History site Alan heads up the Central Press cricket…

UPDATED above: Mike at the Picture Editors’ Guild Awards 2012 – by PPHP Reader Mike Conway – currently a photo editor at EPA – writes: It was started in the early 1900s by a man called Wallenstein (spelling could be off). Like many of the picture agencies of the time…

McCullin Directed by Jacqui Morris and David Morris – Curzon Cinema Soho London…

STUDIOCANAL one of Europe’s leading feature film co-production, acquisition and distribution companies have made a selection of stills and posters available as photographic prints from their big name film catalogue. Film titles available include Billy Liar Dam Busters The Railway Children The Wickerman. Print sizes go up to 40″x30″, framed…

Above – arriving in the post this week at the PhotoArchiveNews.com office – NI Syndication (a year in ‘Profile’) 2013 desk calendar | Nature Picture Library 2013 desk calendar | Mary Evans Picture Library 2013 desk calendar The Woodcuts of Watanabe Seitei Thanks!…

CEPIC Week • Barcelona • 11 – 14 June • World Trade Centre Registration is now open for Congress 2013 – early bird deals available…

above: Rebekah Brooks, former head of News Corp.’s U.K. publishing unit News International, leaves after appearing at Southwark Crown Court in London, on June 22, 2012. Jason Alden/Bloomberg …’Alden describes finding a vantage point amid a media scrum with jostling photographers, a stepladder tumbling over and one crucial moment: “She…