• Getty Images posts a podcast interview by CEO Jonathan Klein with John Moore who shares his first hand account of what it’s like working behind the lens in conflict areas and how he captured the memorable, award-winning imagery following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

• Stock photographer Grant Faint “gives back” by donating all proceeds from sales of his posters and DVDs to orphans in Tanzania.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at May 09, 2008 | Comments (0)

MyLoupe.com, a Chicago-based stock image library, has announced that it haqs added nearly 13,000 royalty free photographs from Tetra Images.  Tetra Images of Jersey City NJ is a production company founded in 2006 by stock photography veteran Tom Grill (a co-founder of Comstock).  MyLoupe is a relative new-comer to the stock photo business launched by Brian Heston in April 2005 with approximately 50,000 images from about 300 contributors which has grown to nearly 400,000 images online from more than 1000 photographers and picture agencies.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at May 06, 2008 | Comments (0)

The Frankfurt based image archive F1online has announced that it has added two new food photography collections to better serve clients. SOFOOD is a Royalty Free (RF) collection including more than 4,000 images and 23 VCD collections. Photocuisine is a Rights Managed (RM) collection with more than 8,000 images. The new collections strengthen to food offering represented in F1’s collection of more than 2 million images

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Posted by Brent Phelps at May 05, 2008 | Comments (0)

The Lebrecht photo library, a specialist library from the UK featuring music and art related imagery, has announced the launch of a new website featuring photos and illustrations related to authors and literature. The new site located at authorpictures.co.uk contains a comprehensive collection including thousands of images of authors and their works including novelists, historians, poets, politicians, playwrights and philosophers.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at May 02, 2008 | Comments (0)

Promoting a fair trade policy in photojournalism, an Oxfordshire, England agency called Majority World plans to expand its representation of photographers and agencies from developing and southern hemisphere countries.  The managers of Majority World hope to expose the Western media audience to the work of local photographers who have a more intimate knowledge of their societies than do the staff and freelance photographers sent in by the Western Media.

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Posted by Chris Ferrone at April 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

Ed McCulloch is this week’s featured new artist from our friends at Aurora Photos. Aurora’s staff regularly seeks out new, up and coming photographers. Those whose material they find especially unique and exciting, they share with us to highlight on abouttheimage. We hope our readers will enjoy learning a little about these young pro-photographers and seeing examples of their outstanding work.

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Posted by Gwen Norman at April 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

Jacksonville Florida based, a21, the parent company of SuperStock, and ArtSelect, has announced the launch of a new micro-payment/mid-stock site called Media Magnet. The new site features a mix of royalty-free content from both commercial image collections and user-generated micro-stock photography. The company states that MediaMagnet’s concept is simple: relevant, fresh content and a simplified search at affordable pricing.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at April 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

Hailing from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN, a new stock photo company has launched to serve as a resource for architectural photos with a unique focus on images from building and construction professionals (architects, builders, remodelers and designers) who are looking to gain visibility for their work and generate licensing revenue. The new company has launched with a roster of 28 photographer from North America and the United Kingdom. Collinstock is headed by Steve Collins, former CEO of the Omnicom-owned Martin Williams ad agency.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at April 17, 2008 | Comments (0)

Thought Equity Motion (TEM,) the motion content licensing and management business based in Denver, has added a music licensing component to its web-site.  The new music offering includes exclusive Rights Managed music clips, Royalty Free music clips and a selection of RF sound effects and loops.  Prices for the Royalty Free music range from $29 to $59 for tracks of varying duration from 12 seconds to approximately four minutes.  Short sound effect loops go for $9.

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Posted by Chris Ferrone at April 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

Who let the Dogs out? The Kennel Club Picture Library has announced that it is re-launching its website making over 60,000 images of ‘Man’s best friend’ available online to picture buyers including images from 1865 to the present day. The library is an established resource of Canine images including all 209 Kennel Club recognized dog breeds as well as images related to care, nutrition, dog shows, training, royal dogs and celebrities with their dogs.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at April 14, 2008 | Comments (0)