DIOMEDIA To Represent TAO Images - Worldwide
UK based photo agency DIOMEDIA is to represent TAO Images from China on a worldwide basis. Headquartered in Beijing, TAO Images work closely with an extensive network of China’s top photographers to deliver up to date images on broad range of subject matters about all aspects of life and commerce in China covering Travel, Culture, Cityscape, Religion and Landscape.
TAO Images’ founder Jenny Hu commented, “with professional expertise and strong sales network of DIOMEDIA, the cooperation will give our product the exposure to image buyers in key Advertising and Publishing markets. China is becoming increasing important subject matter. I am confident that DIOMEDIA the cooperation will aid us in realizing our asset’s potential ”
Ansel Adams ‘Found’ Negatives …Are Not
New York Times reports: A Turnaround in Ansel Adams Photo Dispute
A leading member of the expert team that declared that a box of negatives bought at a California garage sale were the lost work of Ansel Adams has changed his mind.
Full report here: www.nytimes.com
Insight News & Features (INF) Opens London Office
Celebrity photo agency, Insight News & Features (INF), has announced the opening of its new UK office. The company’s London office will be staffed by a skilled and experienced team of industry professionals, who have well-established credentials.
All content generated by INF staffers and freelancers in the UK and in the US, along with content supplied to the agency by subagents, will now carry the INF byline in both the UK and US markets.
UK-born company President Chris Doherty, told ATI from Visa/Perpignan this morning: “Over the last ten years we have been working hard to make INF the best celebrity photo agency in the US. We think we’ve achieved that, and now we are ready to do the same in the UK. “My excellent staff in New York and Los Angeles are very familiar with the UK market, and the team in London already has a superb track record there. We believe that we will be an unbeatable force on both sides of the Atlantic now.”
The company is accepting UK and US newspaper and magazine assignments, as well providing ‘on spec’ candid and events material to all major publications, websites and TV outlets.
ATI understands INF London will be manned by ex Matrix Photos staff. Matrix Photos website is currently off-line - more when we get it....
Creative Content Key To PACA Event
The 15th Annual PACA -Picture Archive Council of America- International Conference in New York features a program highlighted by a keynote presentation on “The Impact of the iPad and the Future Use of Content”.
Keynote speaker Richard Levine, Vice President of Editorial Operations at Condé Nast, will discuss the future of content. He will talk about how the editorial market consumes and views media after the introduction of the iPad. Levine will address how the new e-reading platform offers magazines significant opportunities to greatly expand and enhance their content; and how his staff adapts in this rapidly evolving environment. Condé Nast launched their Wired application and iPad versions of GQ and Vanity Fair earlier this year.
Another noted speaker, Brian Storm, Executive Producer at MediaStorm will be presenting: “Multimedia Storytelling @ MediaStorm”, tells the story of how a company utilizes multimedia and the power of still photography to create diverse content that speaks to the heart of the human condition. Brian spent two years as Vice President of News, Multimedia & Assignment Services for Corbis.
Historic NASA Images Now Available On Flickr
Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known as The Commons.
Visitors to NASA on The Commons can help tell the photos’ story by adding tags, or keywords, to the images to identify objects and people. In addition, viewers can communicate with other visitors by sharing comments. These contributions will help make the images easier to find online and add insight about NASA’s history.
FOCAL International One Day Seminar - 15 Oct
The Business of Archives | 15th October 2010 | Dublin Castle, Ireland
Theme: Business models. Marketing and Branding - covering production and financial issues impacting on archives.
This seminar is open to Producers, broadcasters, distributors, archives, film researchers and production managers – in fact all those interested in finding out more about the footage archives business as well as how producers use their content plus discussions on copyright law.
Full details here: focalint.org
Alamy Launches An iPad App
UK based photo library Alamy have launched an iPad App - Available to download for free, Alamy’s iPad app is a gallery of imagery sourced from Alamy’s large network of photographers and international agencies.
Full details here: Alamy.com
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BBC Motion Gallery and Thought Equity Motion form strategic partnership
BBC Motion Gallery, the motion clip sales arm of BBC Worldwide, and Thought Equity Motion, Inc., a leader in digitizing, delivering and monetizing video content, have begun a new strategic partnership. BBC Motion Gallery has re-launched its site at bbcmotiongallery.com powered by Thought Equity Motion’s technology platform and the companies now cross-represent selected international content sales. The new web presence will be bolstered with millions of professional video clips, enhanced search capabilities, simplified navigation, and instant complimentary preview downloads. Customers will benefit from a more robust content offering including content from such sources as Paramount Pictures, National Geographic, Sony Pictures Entertainment, HBO Archives, Smithsonian Channel and a vast array of royalty free clips.
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WIN-Initiative announces 10 Best 10 international photo competition
WIN-Initiative, an independent stock photo agency based in New York has announced that it has teamed up with 10 art/fashion/lifestyle magazines from different countries to host a global photography competition. The 10 Best 10 international photo competition is a definitive showcase of the very best of contemporary photography. WIN-Initiative’s 10 BEST 10 International Competition is designed to be a showcase of the very best of contemporary photography. The editors from each partner magazine will pick ten winners total (The 10 BEST 10) based on the entries from their region. They assign their winners a photo shoot to be executed for their magazine. Each winner will win a DSLR camera. Winners will be required to document their entire photo production on the video function of their new camera or on an alternate mini cam. A distinguished jury will award a Grand Prize of $3000 to the most outstanding layout and photography.
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More than 500,000 clips from Getty Images now available through Footage.net
Footage.net, a stock footage search engine, has announced that it has now partnered with Getty Images, the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual and digital media content, to include its entire footage database of more than 500,000 clips in the Footage.net search platform. “The partnership with Getty Images adds greatly to the breadth, depth and value of our footage search engine, and we look forward to providing Getty Images with another channel to serve the global production community,” said Footage.net President Domenick Propati. “We are especially pleased that Footage.net users will now have access to Getty Images’ amazing collection of high-quality contemporary footage.”
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PhotoShelter Partners with PicScout to track and monetize images online
PhotoShelter, an online storage and archiving business for photographers has announced that it has teamed up with PicScout, a technology company with offices in the U.S. and Israel best known for their Image Tracker and PicApp products, to automatically include PhotoShelter photographers’ images in the PicScout ImageIRC (index, registry and connection platform). As part of this partnership PhotoShelter photographers’ images will be identified by PicScout’s ImageExchange add-on which populates an (i) icon on images wherever they are used online providing valuable information to image users and a one click connection back to the PhotoShelter photographer’s e-commerce page to facilitate legitimate image sales.
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Visions of America images now available for licensing
During the past 30 years Joseph Sohm visited and photographed all fifty states, documenting the rich cultural and political history of the United States. His far-reaching collection of images have been published more than 50,000 times, including his Bill Clinton portrait that graces the back cover of the former President’s biography, “My Life”. As he had built his impressive collection, Sohm has become a respected photo historian featured on C-SPAN and sought after for keynote addresses at various trade organization shows and university conferences.
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TopFoto’s gallery launches exhibit chronicling Russia and the Soviet Union from 1917-2010
The new TopFoto Gallery in Edenbridge was proud to launch the “Soviet Times: Russian Times, 1917-2010” exhibit, which will run from February 4 through March 31, 2010. The exhibit features work from Soviet-era and modern Russian photographers and captures the tragic and important history of the USSR and Russia from the Revolution days of 1917 through current times. The show includes the work of renowned Russian photographers, including World Press Award winners Vladimir Vyatkin, whose image of soldiers in Chechnya won the Gold Medal in 2002.
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Photolibrary acquires Peter Arnold Inc.
Photolibrary, one of the leading global stock licensing companies with offices in the United Kingdom, USA, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and various locations in Asia, has announced that it has acquired New York-based Peter Arnold Inc. The addition of this specialist library featuring a wide range of editorial images with concentrations in Natural History, Science, and medicine, complements Photolibrary’s current archive including such collections as Garden Picture Library, Oxford Scientific, Fresh Food Images, Britain on View, and Monsoon Images.
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StockXpert is ceasing regular operations
In a recent message sent to users of the micropayment stock photography site StockXpert, the company announced that it is ceasing operations and that it will no longer sell new credits or accept new members. The StockXpert site was launched by the Hungarian based HAAP Media which also operated the popular sxc.hu, a free stock photography download site. The business was later acquired by JupiterImages in Nov 2006 which was acquired itself by Getty Images in Oct 2008. Getty Images also owns iStockphoto, the world’s most popular micro-payment stock photography site.
