Category: Photo News Round-Up
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• The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has described the rough treatment of two photographers trying to cover a protest in Beijing as unfortunate.
• Photoshot appoints Comstock veteran Jim Mellor to post as Senior Account Executive, Jim brings more than 15 years industry experience 15 years ago to Photoshot’s US operation.
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• AP Photo Editor, Jim Collins, discusses Photos of the Day from the Olympics in Beijing.
• PhotoShelter’s Shoot! the Day event injects an estimated 250,000 new stock images into the marketplace.
• Hot News Turkey publishes revealing images from the front lines of the Georgia-Russia conflict.
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• Demotix, a new citizen journalism site, has been launched to fill the gap created when the vast majority of news outlets rely on press releases and wire services.
• Hundreds attend funeral of Times photographer Richard Mills, who died towards the end of his last assignment in Zimbabwe.
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• Rob Haggart, the former Director of Photography for Men’s Journal and Outside Magazine discusses panel on stock photography.
• According to Angela Natividad of AdRants, PhotoShelter’s Shoot! the Day Brings Stock Photo Angst to the Fore.
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• Flowerphotos owner Carol Sharp puts out call for nature photographers to give back by contributing to new Greener Image charitable fund.
• Map Resources releases world vector maps with country names translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian & Dutch.
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• Idée’s Multicolr Search Lab allows users to search for images by color from either Flickr or Alamy.
• Leslie Camhi of the Village Voice covers ”Framing a Century” exhibit at The Met.
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• Getty Images Announces Completion of Acquisition by Hellman & Friedman (originally announced in Feb 2008).
• Chinese government officials fired after publishing fake tiger photo.
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• Getty Images stockholders vote to approve $2.4BB (or $34.00 per share) acquisition by Hellman & Friedman (originally announced in Feb 2008).
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• In an op-ed piece published in the New York Times on May 20th Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University explains the deficiencies of the new Orphan Works bill currently on the table.
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• 123rf.com has launched a new service for corporate customers allowing them to create a customized stock photo intranet site under their own banner while 123RF supplies the images. Corporate clients can then administrate the intranet, giving access to downloads and other privileges to appropriate staff members. Click here for more information.
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• Newscom adds a variety of still imagery and footage collections including Pacific Coast News and Rapport Press.
• Brooklyn Museum crowd-sourcing fine art photography with Open Call for its latest Photography Exhibition
• The Stock Artists Alliance launches the SAA Metadata Project, a comprehensive survey of metadata practices by photographers and stock image distributors.
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• RF producer Eyecandy has released an RM collection and completed world-wide distribution through Veer, photolibrary, AGE and others. Click here for press release.
• Eric Miller, formerly of DigitalVision, IPN Stock and, most recently, Image Source, joins Aurora Photos as Sales Manager of the company’s RM division. Click here for press release.
• Photographer Chi Modu launches free listing web-site for photographers at ePhotos.com. Click here for more information.
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• Photographers deserve more credit, says reader of UK paper. Click here to read an excellent letter to the editor brought to our attention by Linda Royles, Executive Director of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Archives (BAPLA.)
• Moving Up: Maria Kessler has taken the helm as President of the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA.) Christina Vaughan will serve as Vice President. Click here for more info.
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• 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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• OnRequest Images, a Seattle-based company that builds custom stock photo libraries for corporations has raised $8MM from a European investment group to be used for expansion of the business in Europe.
• Corbis hires Barry Allen as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer.
• Corbis and Getty announce new footage initiatives. Corbis adds extensive High Definition (HD) footage from Serac Adventure Films, an award-winning production company specializing in high-quality expedition films. Getty becomes the exclusive distributor of high-definition footage from American Public Television series “Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge.”
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