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Photo News Round-Up
• Getty Images Announces Completion of Acquisition by Hellman & Friedman (originally announced in Feb 2008).
• Chinese government officials fired after publishing fake tiger photo.
• The LA Times crowdsourced photo-blog: The Your Scene Blog features handpicked photography and video from the readers of the L.A. Times.
• Corbis explains its micro-stock business strategy “Shenk admits SnapVillage is a late starter in the amateur image market, but it appears Gates is using Microsoft’s approach to competition with Corbis - invest and wait for rivals to fall over.”
• Stock photographer Rich Legg outlines details of recent movie theater photo shoot “One ingredient that I think has helped me grow this business is getting out of the studio. By going on location, I am often able to capture images that many competing contributors are unable to get.”
• Black Star’s Scott Baradell asks Why Is “Photo Illustration” a Dirty Word in Journalism? and outlines The Case Against Photo Illustrations.
• Shutterstock celebrates image library exceeding 4 million images.
• Photography in Yemen is a work in progress “Only a handful of fine art and commercial photographers can be found in Yemen, a nation with a population of more than 20 million.”
• Deke McClelland creates 101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes music video
• PDN’s Daryl Lang caught up with photographers Tim Hetherington, and Jeff Hutchens, at the United Nations for the opening of the 2008 World Press Photo exhibition.
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