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Following on from their ‘Noo Emotions’ creative photo agency Image Source are online with ‘Superconnection’. They say” Superconnection takes us to a place beyond the ‘Like’ button – of passion, desire and romance. From Ghost Networks to Cosmic Romance, ISM Briefing #2 reveals the drivers and images shaping the hot…

Photo agency Alamy is reporting US revenue up 48% in the last quarter of 2011. The UK based agency which set up it’s US sales operation in 2009, has also further strengthened its experienced management team…. Full details on About The Image now: AboutTheImage.com…

Royalty Free photo agency Fotolia has released an Adobe plugin which allows you to browse, manage and incorporate Fotolia images inside any Adobe CS5 application. The plugin – compatible with Adobe Creative Suite version 5.5 – works across InDesign, Photoshop or Illustrator allowing you instant access to over 16 million…

Photo agency giant Getty Images has released Connect by Getty Images, an innovative new content distribution service that allows customers and business partners to integrate Getty Images’ core functionality and robust content and metadata directly within their publishing tools, products and services through use of the company’s powerful and flexible…

The latest issue of UK magazine Bizzare features three photo shoots by the magazine’s very own Picture Editor Tom Broadbent. Tom, an accomplished portrait photographer, had his portrait shoots of Jaws lookalike (above) photographed at home, fantasy author Terry Pratchett and Modified director, Paul Cotrulia all printed in the March…

Munich based stock photo empire StockFood have announced that their Living4media photo agency is now available in 43 countries through local agents. They say, “This rapid growth can be put down to the long experience and established global distribution network of the agency’s parent company, StockFood”. “It’s not enough simply…

Los Angeles based celebrity photo agency Pacific Coast News have sent PAN their tearsheets from their Whitney Houston coverage above. James Aylott director of Pacific Coast News told us: “We hit the money shot last week and phone is still ringing off the hook. We had covers of the Daily…

Linked Open Data is gaining traction in the information world right now. Europeana (Europe’s digital library, archive and museum, supports digital innovation in the heritage sector). has just launched an animation to explain what it is and why it’s a good thing, both for users and for data providers –…

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California based photo agency Zuma Press is now supplying Alamy’s live news feed with a daily upload of images from its global network of 3,000 photojournalists. UK based Alamy will also represent up to 1 million images from the Zuma photo archives. Scott Mc Kiernan commented: “ZUMA is excited to…

‘More than 120 people came from over 23 countries to participate in this year’s photography boot camp taking place in the center of Cape Town, South Africa!’ More on the run up to this event at AboutTheImage.com…

photo: Rupert Murdoch London 27th January 1986 AP / TopFoto Murdoch launches another UK paper to go with The Sun and The Times. BBC.co.uk reports: Rupert Murdoch has told staff at the Sun he will launch new weekend tabloid, the Sun on Sunday, “very soon”. The News Corporation boss also…

• Video: Scott Mc Kiernan Presents – 5 Years of DOUBLEtruck Magazine: Scott Mc Kiernan owner at Zuma Press Presents – 5 Years of DOUBLEtruck Magazine here • Deposit Photos Hits 6m Images – Reports Growth in Editorial Images Demand: Florida based Depositphotos Stock Photo Agency has added another million…

UK tabloid newspaper The Sun has launched a new smartphone app. The app includes a ‘Sun Scan’ tool which allows readers of the paper to scan and access further details of a printed feature.…

PAN reader photographer Eric Kruszewski writes: Hi Will, I immersed myself in the Cuban culture and captured an intimate glimpse into their lives. I created a video from the imagery and wish to share it with you. Cuba: Discovering Its People and Culture Conveys imagery from a 9-day expedition throughout…

Dominic Ponsford, Editor of Press Gazette in the UK, reports: Ruling allows press to charge online news aggregators. The Copyright Tribunal has upheld the right of the British newspaper industry to charge those who aggregate online content and then sell it on to third parties. In the short-term it means…

In time for London Fashion Week 17-21st February PAN listed photo agency Catwalk Capture is now uploading to the IDS photo platform.…

guardian.co.uk reports: ‘The number of people subscribing to the digital version of the Times newspaper rose by 7.5% between September and January, to just under 120,000. There was also a 35% hike in the number of people reading the paper on the iPad over the four-month period, with an average…