Diomedia, a stock photography reseller based in London, has announced that it has opened up an office in São Paulo Brazil. The company also has office located in Russia, USA, Europe and the Middle East. In additional Diomedia’s website & keywords have all been translated into Brazilian Portuguese to serve customers in the region.
The new Brazilian office is located in São Paulo’s Vila Olímpia quarter, renowned for presence of major advertising agencies & designers. Denise Magalhães has been appointed to head-up the sales team in the region.
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Reflex Stock, a stock photography portal from the UK, has announced that it has launched an expanded collection of rights-managed (RM) editorial images. The collection now includes RM imagery from more than 30 unique collections including Heritage Images with many of the images available commercially for the first time. “In December last year we provided the main component of a composite image for the cover of Time Magazine (December 17th) which was a huge vote of confidence in our content. As a result, we have increased our focus in this area and have spent the last ten months putting together this unique and extensive mix of images that offers an attractive and diverse range of content for our editorial customers,” explains Dwyer O’Neill, Chief Executive of Reflex Stock.
Google Inc. (NSDQ: GOOG), the owner of the world’s most popular web search engine has recently lost two copyright lawsuits in Germany over the search engine’s rights to display photos and artwork as thumbnails in a preview of search results. The regional court of Hamburg has ruled that Google’s preview of a picture by German photographer Michael Bernhard violates his copyright. In a second case. Thomas Horn, who holds the copyrights on images of comics that were displayed, has also won a second case against Google according to an email by court spokeswoman Sabine Westphalen.
PhotoAlto, a Paris based photo agency, has teamed up with stock photography industry pioneer Jerry Tavin in order to launch an innovative new rights-managed (RM) brand called IC Worldwide. The new business is founded on the belief that there is a strong market for high-end rights managed photography, despite the current market trend for lower-cost microstock royalty-free (RF) licensing. The business claims to have launched “a tightly edited collection of photography purposefully selected to celebrate visual impact, quality over quantity, and diversity for those who prefer images as original and creative as their concepts”.
Two popular annual photo industry events will take place in New York City in October; the Photo Plus Expo and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) International Conference. Thousands of industry professionals from camera and imaging software manufacturers to will photographers, reps and image licensing companies will participate in Photo Plus while stock photo companies from around the globe will attend the PACA event . Some of our readers may not know, however, of two other important industry-related events taking place in the Big Apple in October: a State-of-the-Industry forum discussion exclusively for photographers and stock image producers and the PictureHouse Picture Buyer Fair, exclusively for photo-buyers.
Imagestate Media, a leading stock licensing company from the UK, has announced that it has signed a deal with AGE FotoStock to represent its entire collection of more than 5000,000 rights managed (RM) stock images. This follows a deal announced last month where AGE Fotostock signed a similar agreement with Photolibrary in what appears to be a larger strategy to gain greater distribution for the collection of RM images.
LOOK Photography, a specialist stock photography library from California focused on Home and Architectural imagery has announced that it has launched a new rights-managed (RM) stock photography collection called SHELTERED Images intended for 3rd party distributors. The collection is comprised of images featuring exclusive inside access to the world’s most beautiful homes and private retreats. “Our photographers cover modern residential architecture and design from a fresh viewpoint that is engaging and forward-thinking. This purity of purpose,” says Eric Hernandez “is our distinctive brand of photography.”
Mary Evans Picture Library, a specialty library from the UK featuring historical images, has announced that it is now representing more than 12,000 images from the Francis Frith Collection. The Francis Frith Collection was founded by Francis Frith, a pioneer Victorian photographer, in 1860. The collection chronicles the social and topographical history of the British Isles from 1860 to 1970. “Francis Frith is without doubt a superb collection, showing Britain at work, rest and play over the past two centuries and will expand our own content by offering even more variety”, says Paul Brown, Managing Director of Mary Evans Picture Library. “Our aim is to proactively bring it to the commercial market, offering all the facilities of our website including 24 hour direct downloads, while allowing Francis Frith to continue to develop their own publishing and print business”.
Leisa Mercer and Vicki Schelstraete, former Art Directors from Masterfile, have taken the entrepreneurial plunge launching a stock photography production company based on Toronto called 2 Girls Productions Inc. Prior to launching the business, the two founders worked under Masterfile’s Creative Director Tim Lund, where they contributed to in-house productions under the Masterfile RM and Radius RF brands.
The Image Works is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary making it one of the oldest stock photography companies in the united states. The business was founded in 1983 by photographers Alan Carey and Mark Antman shortly after meeting while covering a Duck Calling Contest. At the time, Alan Carey was chief photographer for a regional daily newspaper and Mark Antman had just returned to the United States after living in France for a decade working as a documentary photojournalist. Shortly after the pair launched the business in the world famous historic arts colony of Woodstock, NY.
MySpace, the world’s largest social networking platform has announced that it has penned a deal with the technology company HP, to offer printing technology on MySpace, including all photo sections. As a result millions of consumers to print the photo sections, personal profiles, blog entries, comments and messages stored on their MySpace profiles and share them offline. Myspace estimates that it currently stores approximately 4 billion images on its platform. Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of the Imaging and Printing Group at HP, and MySpace Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Chris DeWolfe announced the signing of the companies’ letter of intent to form the strategic relationship at HP’s Annual Imaging and Printing Conference.
Thought Equity Motion, a leading source of film, video and music content, has announced that it’s collection of high definition (HD) footage has grown to include more than 250,000 individual clips. The company claims that it now offers the world’s largest online library of professionally shot HD footage. In addition the company is touting that more than 92% of it’s entire footage library has been made available for online delivery giving customers immediate access to licensed content. “Our commitment to HD is long-standing. Anticipating the industry demand for high definition footage, we were first to market three years ago with a delivery platform capable of delivering HD online,” said Thought Equity Motion founder and CEO Kevin Schaff. “Since then we have been amassing HD content with usability in mind, driving towards a tapeless environment with files delivered direct to the desktop, and developing tools that integrate our library with our users’ edit systems.”
Image Source, a leading producer of royalty-free stock photography has announced that it has launched a new version of its website located at imagesource.com. The new site features a simplified design with big bold images and an innovative horizontal navigation. The company also touts a drag and drop light box utility along with an enhanced search engine.
iStockphoto and the Avery Dennison Office Products Company have announced a partnership where Avery Dennison customers will gain access to a selection of free stock images and receive a 20 percent discount off their first purchase of 50+ stock photography credits from iStockphoto. “This deal brings together a leading force in the traditional desktop printing medium with the cutting edge in digital imagery at a time when the appetite for great photos and illustrations is at a peak, but most people still don’t know where to get them,” said Caradoc Ehrenhalt, group manager of Content Development for Avery Dennison. “With Avery’s easy-to-use printing solutions, it’s simple to add iStockphoto images to Avery products and then print right from the desktop.”
Stockholm Sweden based Matton Images has recently signed an agreement to represent the LatinStock royalty-free (RF) stock photography collection for worldwide distribution. The collection launched earlier this year is billed as “Latin Photographs by Latin Photographers.” The archive launched with approximately 2000 images and now exceeds 4000 total images.
