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photos above – Topfoto – click each for more info & to license For the Eden Valley Summer Festival, the negative collections of TopFoto have been combed for rare photographs of Sir Winston Churchill, the Queen’s first Prime Minister and the Eden Valley’s most famous resident. Opened Thursday 31 May…

In June 2012, London’s most celebrated venues (Museum of London, British Library, British Museum, Tate Modern, the V&A and more…) will play host to a world-class, city-wide celebration of photography as the London Festival of Photography returns for its second year. Encompassing street, documentary and conceptual photography, the festival includes…

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Shutterstock Images have announced a new image discovery tool: Shutterstock Instant. They say: ‘The interface re-imagines the traditional keyword search experience, and combines speed and simplicity to deliver a visual experience optimized for creative inspiration’… ‘Inspired by the Shutterstock for iPad app, Instant displays images in a beautiful, interlocking mosaic…

Great Sex Pistols photo gallery from the Mirrorpix photo archive on the newspapers website today. View the gallery here: Never mind the Jubilee, here’s the Sex Pistols! Picture special from the archive…

On his second post on the agency blog James West considers and explains how Alamy, the photo agency he founded, is dealing with the effect of the ‘recession’ on editorial and commercial photo deals at the agency. ‘In 2008 a large wet fish called recession slapped us right in the…

Alan Smith, owner at Topfoto picture library is again single-handedly keeping the photo content and lisencing industry in the media. This time as part of a news item for ITV Meridian which aired this week. Click through the video grab above to watch ITV Meridian coverage of the world’s most…

CNNMoney reports: ‘The search giant (Google) said Thursday it would begin chronicling the thousands of requests it receives daily to take down search results that link to copyrighted material. Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) said it receives upwards of 250,000 requests to remove links to pirated content each week’… Read the…

Singapore based factual television entertainment production company Beach House Pictures is celebrating its seventh birthday by hiring new Head of Production & Business Development Paul Stevens – photo above – Paul arrives at BHP during a vibrant growth period. In April, the company collected two Silver World Medals and three…

Red Edge Images booked a listing on our Picture Libraries and Agencies page last week – we asked owner Jan Bickerton to introduce the library to PhotoArchiveNews.com readers. Red Edge Images is a boutique image library specialising in high quality Rights Managed images for publishers worldwide, mainly for fiction book…

Updated: 30 May 2012 Websites The Register and GeekWire report Corbis has been ordered to pay out $12million in damages to InfoFlows. March 28 2012 Legal.com has court papers in a the CORBIS CORPORATION v. STONE case: ‘Corbis Corporation (“Corbis”) and Steve Stone, through his company InfoFlows Corporation (“InfoFlows”), entered…

Corbis ‘invested’ in citizen photo’journalism agency Demotix last year – the Demotix feed is now avaiable directly through Corbis via a new offering ‘Demotix Wire subscription’ which caters to both local and national news outlets and provides up to 250 breaking news images per day from Demotix contributors around the…

PAN reader photographer Katherine Kay-Mouat has an exhibition titled PORTRAIT OF AN ISLAND at the Guernsey Photography Festival which opened yesterday until 22 June. Katherine’s images are at Jimmy’s Cafe, St James College Street, St Peter Port – 10AM To 4PM, Mon To Sat – it’s Free to view. Other…

UPDATED: MAY 24: An hour after posting a ‘Searching For’ request on the Press Photo History Project – we had this in from PPHP reader Mike Conway Senior Editor at EPA Europe: ‘According to my source in Athens it is more likely to have been United New Photographers agency which…

London based youth culture photo library PYMCA is now representing a new collection of images by photographer Graham Smith from his book We Can Be Heroes We Can Be Heroes charts the rise of London’s club scene from punk in the late 1970s to the New Romantics in the 1980s…

Great access to Prince Charles on this shoot! They say: ‘Charles Prince of Wales had a keen interest in Polo from an early age always watching his father The Duke of Edinburgh play at Windsor. The Prince played his first game in 1963 aged 15, in a team captained by…

In March this year travel stock photo specialist Robert Harding World Imagery acquired Specialist Stock, one of the world’s foremost environmental image and footage collections. Owner Robert Harding has posted a ‘Founders Focus’ Q&A explaining the library’s move into footage ….How was it formed? It was set up by environmental…

Dench: I grew up where books mattered. As a photographer, the holy grail for me was, in 1990, a book and an exhibition. Stoddart: It still is, even more so, because you’re not going to get 20 pages in the Sunday Times Magazine…photographers have to find different ways of getting…