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The new logo (right) reflects both brands Celebrity photo agency Flynet Pictures and Fame Pictures have merged. A meesage on the newly created ‘FameFlynet’ website reads: FamePictures, Inc. and Flynet Pictures have been independently successful in the business for many years. FameFlynet is now one of the largest and most…

Ashish Raje a contributing photojournalist at India photo agency FotoCorp has won a National Foundation of India Fellowship with a photo feature covering the declining textile mills of Mumbai. Mumbai’s Mills: From spinning cloth to spinning money The mills once provided livelihoods to thousands of workers. Now very few mills…

Time’s LightBox spotlights some of the best photobooks of the year as chosen by a group of photographers and photography experts from around around the world…. and of course a few from the photo editors of TIME. See the books here Flagged up by Peter at PhotographicLibraries.com – thanks…

Paparazzi E.L. Woody is featured on a CNN documentary (above) and again on 3rd Jan on Showbiz Tonight also on CNN. Thanks Brad for flagging this one.…

The John Birdsall Social Issues Photo Library at the Press Association for the last few years will represented by Photofusion from 1st January 2012 – if you have a login for the library at PA you will need to reregister.…

The Associated Press have opened an office in Pyongyang but the office opening party has had to be delayed for a while… The Miami Herald takes up the story: …..When Kathleen Carroll, AP’s executive editor, and Tom Curley, AP’s president and chief executive, were en route to Pyongyang from Beijing…

Here are a few more Christmas greetings we have had from photo agencies and picture libraries. Click through the card to visit the library. See more here from yesterday’s upload. – Thanks all!…

Canada – Design Pics Inc, headquartered in Edmonton, Canada has announced it’s acquisition of First Light Associated Photographers Ltd., a Canadian based photo agency.…

London based photo agency Eyevine has announced the representation of Amsterdam based agency NOOR for the UK. NOOR photographers are: Nina Berman, Philip Blenkinsop, Pep Bonet, Andrea Bruce, Giancarlo Ceraudo, Alixandra Fazzina, Jan Grarup, Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Kadir van Lohuizen, Jon Lowenstein, Francesco Zizola. David Leverton, eyevine co-founder says…

Stock photo agency Dreamstime reports that it’s customer base has grown from 350,000 users in 2007 to more than 4.2 million this year. The agency started in 2004 boast 12 million photo’s online 300,000 of which are free. Focusing on those customers, Dreamstime now offers geo-tagged images (above screen shot)…

Big Pictures/Mr Paparazzi photo agency owner Darryn Lyons is joining Britney Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline to do battle on an Australian weight-loss TV show called Excess-Baggage.…

A selection of Christmas cards sent to PhotoArchiveNews.com this week…. Thanks! Click through the card to visit photo library.…

Phil Coomes – Picture editor on the BBC News website – has been featuring photographers on his blog this week. ‘Adapt to survive: A photographer’s view of the market today’ In the second of a week-long series by guest bloggers freelance photographer Philip Wolmuth looks at the current market for…

photo ©National Geographic/Michael Nichols ‘Have you ever seen a photo in the National Geographic magazine and wondered, “how’d they get that”? Field Test, a newly launched National Geographic feature, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a magazine article, including the latest technologies used in the field by photographers-…

Registration is open for the Museum + Heritage Show in London May 2012. They say: ‘The show brings together the latest products and services available, all under one roof at one time and is a ‘must do’ for anyone working in museums, galleries, heritage or other cultural visitor attractions. It’s…

Warren Hellman the co-founder of Getty Images owner investment company Hellman & Friedman has died. Full details on The New York Times website.…

In an email to picture desks Kimberly Ayl President of photo agency Icon International announces the agency will close at the end of this year. Representing over 50 editorial photographers Icon was founded in 1997. Kimberly says in the email titled ‘Icon to Close’ seen by PhotoArchiveNews this morning: Dear…

World Press Photo is now accepting entries for the 2012 contest for the best multimedia storytelling in visual journalism. The contest is open for photographers, publications and multimedia producers to enter their work to be judged by an international, nine-member jury of experts. The deadline for registration and uploading submissions…