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From Flora Smith, partner, TopFoto.co.uk It is with great sadness that we hear the news of the death of Ken Russell. TopFoto has represented Ken since the negatives of his 1950s photographs came to light in our archive in 2006 and during this time, Ken and his adored wife Elise…

CEO Ray Flemings founder/CEO at Stipple – ‘an in-picture labeling tool that allows publishers to label and share any person, place or thing in the photos on their site’ – explains the service on Scobleizer’s You Tube Channel. By activating Stipple on a site, publishers offer their users a new…

Photographer Jay Brooks has joined UK based photo agency Camera Press. They say: ‘Jay shoots energetic reportage-style work for a variety of fashion and advertising clients, as well as music and celebrity portraiture. Allowing this loose, relaxed reportage style to influence his portraits, he captures something of his subject’s personality…

PAN copy-editor Marc Ballantine (10 October 1969 – 14 December 2011 R.I.P.) spotted this resource: TV Ark – ‘TVARK is an online TV museum. The site is intended as a tribute to the work of television presentation and graphics, and to preserve a slice of our social history. Through images…

Fancy winning a year’s full subscription to the best creative lists available? All you have to do to enter is ‘like’ BikiniLists on Facebook, it’s that simple… The winner will be selected at random from Bikini’s facebook fans on Friday 2nd December at 14:00 GMT. So what are you waiting…

Four intrepid reporters and editors from Bahrain, Belarus, Mexico, and Pakistan were honored Tuesday, November 22, at the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 21st Annual International Press Freedom Awards benefit dinner, an annual recognition of courageous journalism. Full report here: CPJ…

How I shot it: Commonwealth Super Featherweight Title Fight Getty Images sports photographer Dean Moutharopoulos shows you how he shoots boxing in this video, featuring Liam Walsh and Paul Appleby at London’s York Hall a couple of weeks ago.…

UK based magazine publisher Future Publishing has launched MediaStore offering thousands of rights managed images sourced from Future Publishing’s special interest magazines covering the latest and the best in music, sport, craft and technology. The say: ‘ Easy to search and download, MediaStore has affordable and high quality content for…

The Revd Andrew Freeman photographic collection (1895 – 1946) has been given to The British Institute of Organ Studies (BIOS). They say’ A valuable and unique collection of photographs of organ-cases has been given to the British Organ Archive by the Freeman family. The fragile glass-plate negatives have now been…

Last night on BBC 4 Storyville: Deadline: The New York Times Documentary which goes inside the newsroom at one of the most venerable publishing institutions in the world, the New York Times, as it struggles to survive in a tumultuous year. here: BBC iPlayer…

Photographer Jim Erickson along with his team at stock photo and commercial photography company Erickson Productions in Petaluma, California have uploaded a new video on their You Tube channel showing behind-the- scenes production and results of a recent client shoot using 3D-like imagery… we spotted PAN subscriber Jesse Hughes, Erickson’s…

The Everett Collection in New York City are ‘seeking an individual with professional web design and Internet marketing experience’. Full job ad on our US stock photo industry site AboutTheImage.com…

German based photo agency Mauritius Images has drastically reduced its prices on their ‘Bestprice Images’ collection as it repositions itself toward the midstock sector. They have removed print run limitations and prices now start at € 2.50. The Bestprice Images collection boasts 1.8 million images. They say: ‘At www.bestprice-images.com images…

US based photo agency Aurora Photos have launched myPhone Collection of stock photography. This new collection of images taken with iPhones and other mobile devices by some of the world’s top photographers and iPhoneographers, is now available for licensing To coincide with the launch of the myPhone Collection, Aurora is…

The Bridgeman Art Library is now representing the images of three major U.S. collections: the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.…

Phil Coomes, Picture Editor and Photographer for the BBC News website has prepared a photo slideshow showing the Japan tsunami recovery from the air by AP photographer Greg Baker. view…

Getty Images London have announced the promotion of Andrew Saunders to the position of Senior Vice President, Creative Content. He will be overseeing the development of contemporary imagery, video and music at the stock giant. Saunders predicts that the proliferation of stills, video and the growth of social media has…

“Photo Finish: The Sports Photography of Neil Leifer” opens today in Washington DC.…