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above: Watch the grants announcement made at Visa pour l’Image this month Getty Images awarded $80,000 in grants supporting the work of four international photojournalists. Bharat Choudhary, Kosuke Okahara, Paolo Marchetti and Sebastian Liste each received $20,000 prizes and editorial support as winners of the 2012 Getty Grants for Editorial…

The BBC is reporting from the Paris court where Will and Kate are trying to close down usage of those now famous topless shots….’He [Royal lawyer] said the royal couple could not have known they were being photographed, adding it would only have been possible to see the couple with…

The Beta version of the new USA Today website looks great and carries lots of photo usage leaders to features and news articles. Here – USA Today current site Here…

Canon today unveils its latest EOS DSLR, the EOS 6D. The EOS 6D combines a powerful, full-frame imaging system and superior low-light performance with a compact, robust and lightweight design. For the first time in any EOS model, Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity are included, empowering photographers to capture stunning images…

Specialist photo agency Writer Pictures has put a call out for images of two of the Booker Prize nominees – They say: …’Alison Moore and Tan Twan Eng have so far escaped our grasped. But not for lack of trying. We have Moore in a group shot from the Orange…

MoST a new ‘Management of StoryTellers artists and photographers’ agency opens for business today. The agency is run from offices in Italy and Bangkok, and currently represents 9 photographers. View and license their photo features here: www.mostartists.com Recent assignment: photographer Lek Kiatsirikajorn from the agency recently shot a commission for…

Italian celebrity gossip and lifestyle magazine Chi has announced it is planning to publish the topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge in a special edition next week. Chi is owned by the publisher of Closer magazine who published the photos yesterday. The magazine last made the headlines when it…

‘ONLY IN CLOSER: KATE AND WILLIAM, THEIR VERY HOT HOLIDAY IN PROVENCE’ Closer magazine in France have published topless photos of the the Duchess of Cambridge – here that site is being hammered so you may have trouble visiting….and it now appears they have removed the mag cover photo (above)…

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Below is the new line up for the BAPLA The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies executive committee announced at their AGM in London last night: Mary Egan – PA Photos Tim Harris – Nature Picture Library Steve Lake – 4 Corners Isabelle Doran – Loupe Images John Balean…

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The Center for Innovation and Change Leadership (CICL), of Suffolk University Sawyer Business School, is proud to announce the award of The Global Leadership in Innovation and Collaboration (GLIC) to Jonathan Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images. Full details on AboutTheImage.com…

Click it: ‘images suffused with mystery and excitement’ Food photo experts Stock Food have sent us a press release along the lines of…’Trend scouts at StockFood have discovered a significant new style emerging in the industry. Growing numbers of top international photographers are staging and lighting food and drinks to…

As PhotoArchiveNews.com reported in August: Its Barcelona! CEPIC Congress 2013 – You Choose The Location – Its Barcelona! CEPIC confirmed today: Congress 2013 is going south to the sunshine! The largest and most international of industry conferences will be held in Barcelona , the capital of Catalonia in Spain from…

PhotoArchiveNews.com owner/editor Will Carleton has been invited to provide an afternoon of one-on-one marketing sessions for photographer members of arts charity Ideas Tap at their HQ in London Bridge. ‘Three individual appointments will be scheduled on Sept 18 where he’ll go through your marketing materials/approaches and suggest how they can…

The NUJ’s London Photographers’ Branch reports: ‘Following a meeting with Arcadia Group, Adam Goldman, company secretary and Tracy Dixon, Topshop’s regional controller, the company has issued a full apology for the treatment of NUJ photographer Jess Hurd in its flagship Oxford Street store in December 2011.’ ‘Jess Hurd, chair of…

Hamburg based, family-owned Bauer Media Group has acquired 100% of ACP Magazines. ACP, which was established in 1933, is Australia and New Zealand’s largest magazine publisher,reaching over 15 million Australians each year. With leading magazine titles in almost every category, ACP’s major brands include The Australian Women’s Weekly, Woman’s Day,…

UK based specialist subject photo agency Writer Pictures have introduced their most recent contributing photographer via a Q&A on their blog – get to know Lisa Carpenter and her photography we say: Great marketing! – more of these please…