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Tim Moore At Photolibrary.com Interviewed
Photolibrary.com owner Tim Moore speaks with Dynamic Export magazine about the growth of the agency.
‘Competing with the likes of Bill Gates’ Corbis and privately owned Getty Images, Moore has concentrated on differentiation to gain market share. He looks for specialty brands with niche photography. “That allows us to walk in to a client and say, ‘Ah, yes, we have got something different, we’re not like the shop next door’.”…
Full article here: www.dynamicexport.com.au
UK Press Association joins The Image Works
Stock photography agency The Image Works has announced the addition of imagery from Press Association to their archive. Press Association has one of the most extensive collections of UK news, sports and entertainment images in the world, dating back to 1860. They proudly take their place at the heart of the UK media, providing historical and contemporary images from an archive of over 15 million images.
Aurora Add RF Images - Launch iPAD Comp
Photo agency Aurora Photos have added royalty free images to their collection. To mark the event they are giving you a chance to win an iPad - ‘Guess at least 3 out of 5 pairs correctly and be entered to win an iPad from Aurora Photos’ Take Aurora’s RM/RF Challenge!
Motorsports Agency Distributes Via AP
UK-based Sutton Images will distribute their vast catalogue of motorsports pictures via AP’s commercial photo division, AP Images, to customers across the world. Sutton Images will also work globally with AP on commercial commissioned assignments. Sutton Images has been a leading photo agency in the motorsports sector for more than 30 years, photographing a wide range of events and subjects for an impressive list of corporate and private clients. An archive of over four million transparencies, with a searchable on-line digital archive of over 700,000 images, spans the history of motorsport from 1960 through to the present day.
Majority World Secures Start Up Investment
UK based, ‘socially responsible image agency’ Majority World has announced that it has secured vital new start up investment from Stichting DOEN in the Netherlands as well as from two of its founder directors.
Art Images Launches 2011 From Lebrecht
The strength and depth of content at UK based photo specialist Lebrecht has taken a further step towards becoming a very comprehensive resource with the launch of a dedicated site covering Art.
The launch of ‘Art Images at Lebrecht’ comes hot on the heels of their recently launched dedicated image-specific site ‘Author Pictures at Lebrecht.’
‘Editorial Only’ Licence Available At IStockphoto - Jan 2011
iStockphoto has announced to its 85,000 + contributing artists that in January it will begin accepting images for use under a new “editorial use only” licensing agreement. These images will be available to those needing non-released imagery such as news outlets, publishers, magazines, bloggers and presenters. They will be licensed for use as a descriptive visual reference to a product, place, event or concept.
New York Through Time At Mary Evans
Fascinating photographs charting the history of New York City are now available through Mary Evans Picture Library, as they announce a new partnership with the Museum of the City of New York. The UK’s leading resource for historical images is now representing the archive collection of the museum whose mandate is to explore the past, present and future of this most exciting of cities, and to celebrate its inherent diversity and heritage.
Click here for an image selection: Museum of the City of New York
Alaska Stock Makes RF Collection Avaiable In France
Stock photo agency, Alaska Stock Images, has announced ‘a strategic distribution partnership with French photo agency, Graphic Obsession.’ Graphic Obsession is one of the largest suppliers of royalty-free images in France and a subsidiary of Groupe Photononstop S.A..
“Alaska Stock is looking forward to being able to expand its royalty-free distribution into France with an agency that has been a part of the photo industry for over 15 years. With their experience and long standing reputation, Alaska Stock’s Alaskan Express collection of royalty-free images will be in good hands,” commented Gina Bringman, Alaska Stock International Distribution Coordinator.
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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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Getty launches Thinkstock subscription product
Getty Images announced it will now offer another subscription product, Thinkstock, giving new life to a brand the company acquired from Jupiter Images in 2008. The Thinkstock subscription product will include millions of high-quality royalty free photographs, illustrations and vectors from its Getty Images, iStockphoto and Jupiter Images collections. Thinkstock will include both professional and user-generated content. Getty plans to add thousands of new images to the product weekly to keep it fresh and vibrant.
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ASPP and PACA launch “REINVENTION WEEKEND” conference for photography professionals
The American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) has teamed up with the the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) to produce a “Reinvention Weekend” conference in Boston on April 15th – 18th. The focus of the conference is to aid attendees in Reinventing, Reimagining and Reinvigorating your career or your approach to the photography business. The conference is being structured to foster spirited dialogues with photo contemporaries including: stock agents, researchers, editors, publishers, art buyers, photographers and consultants.
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London Features International opening office in Los Angeles
London Features International (LFI) has announced that it is expanding with a new office in Los Angeles, which will open in February 2010. The new LA office will be headed up by industry veteran Clive Howes, in the capacity of Managing Editor USA. Previously Howes worked for Getty Images as their Global Workflow Manager, Clive has also worked for agencies such as Action Images and Reuters, as well as Picture Editor at national newspapers. Clive is regarded as the father of Editorial Digital Photography in the UK, getting the first live digital image used as early as 1988 and founding the first true digital agency in 1996 with Fast News Photo’s.
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Take Stock Being Distributed by The Image Works
Renowned Civil Rights photographer Matt Herron’s Take Stock collection will now be available exclusively through The Image Works. Herron’s collection features historic stock photography of the civil rights movement, its leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, and Cesar Chavez’ Migrant Farm Workers Movement.
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Diomedia teams up with Indigo Images to launch Diomedia Polska
Diomedia, a stock photography reseller based in London, has announced that it has partnered with Indigo Images from Poland to launch Diomedia Polska. This new joint venture is operating from the former Indigo Images office in Warsaw, servicing Polish clients effective Dec 1st 2009. The company has translated the entire Diomedia website into Polish including content from over 170 collections from leading brands.
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Blend Images wins design award for campaign by Spil Creative
Blend Images, a stock photography agency specializing in ethnically diverse business and lifestyle imagery, has announced that it has won an award in “The American Graphic Design Awards,” a national design competition sponsored by Graphic Design USA magazine, recognizing the best in graphic design and published in their Awards Annual released in early December. The award winning campaign won accolades in the “Advertising” category.
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Electric Lane launches keywording service
Image industry consultancy Electric Lane has announced a new service to help picture agencies get their images in front of buyers. Electric Lane works with keywording expert Liisa Kaakinen to create controlled vocabularies to suit the needs of image libraries, their customers and their distributors. Electric Lane provides its customers with access to presentations, studies and recent articles on the use of controlled vocabularies, including presentations by Imense and Pixolution from the seminar on visual image search at the CEPIC Conference, which was chaired by the Director of Electric Lane, Sarah Saunders.
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Creative Commons’ Joichi Ito joins Picscout
Joichi Ito, co-founder and Board member of Digital Garage and the CEO of Neoteny, has joined Picscout as an important member of its Advisory Board. Ito’s was excited to join the Israel-based image-tracking leader: “PicScout is bridging the interests of businesses and those of Internet users, supporting the hybrid sharing economy that is so crucial in getting past the destructive spiral that much of the online media business is in.” Ito has stated that he is pleased with Picscout’s adaptation of the work Creative Commons has contributed to the industry: “In addition, PicScout has agreed to interoperate with the open standards we are working on at Creative Commons.”
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Alaska Stock Images heads for warmer weather – new partnerships in Mexico and Brazil
Alaska Stock announced new non-exclusive partnerships in Mexico with Durga Archivo Digital de Imágenes, S.A. de C.V. in Mexico and in Brazil with Imageplus Produções Fotográficas Ltda. While images of dogsledding and snowcapped peaks might not seem like common needs for Mexican and Brazilian image-buyers, Gianfranco Coppola, Managing Director of Image Plus feels the Alaska Stock content improves his customer offering: “Alaska Stock has many great images and with an amazing quality. Their website is rich in content, stories, galleries, etc … Imageplus is proud to have such great content available for our customers. We do believe these images will enhance their work.” Alaska Stock’s owner, Jeff Schultz is excited about his company’s partnership with Image Plus and feels “…..they will have a unique market for our Alaska images.”
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Superstock Six Months Down the Road: Thriving and Hiring!
The consortium of RF producers who purchased Superstock in a bankruptcy sale in January of this year has kept their promise to keep the business running. Not only is the company, which was put in Chapter 11 bankruptcy under its previous management at A21, still going but according to CEO Lanny Ziering, is profitable and company seeks to fill a couple of key positions.
