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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.
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Imense now featuring images from Ingram Publishing
Imense, a Cambridge (UK) company producing leading image recognition and retrieval software, has announced that images from Ingram Publishing are now available on the Imense image search portal imense Picturesearch. “Ingram Publishing’s approach to creative direction and editing means that they stand out from the increasingly homogenised collections available in the RF market. They compliment perfectly imense Picturesearch’s strategy of representing independent RF producers that offer something differentiated and visually innovative” stated Stuart Cox from imense Picturesearch.
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Stock Artists Alliance’s free metadata seminars serves nearly 800 picture professionals
The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) , a trade organization for stock photographers, announced last May that it was launching an educational speaking series called getMETAsmart made possible with an award from the Library of Congress and supported by industry partners. Since then SAA is touting that it has already held seven, free educational events over the past two months, with nearly 800 participants from around the country. The Stock Artists Alliance plans three more getMETAsmart events for this fall.
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Fotoglif launches new micropayment site focused on serving bloggers and web publishers
A new stock photography business has launched in Toronto called Fotoglif, with a focuse on serving images to bloggers, social media fans, and other Web publishers with royalty-free and timely images. The beta version of the Fotoglif image-sharing community and licensing platform is available now live at Fotoglif.com. The site features more than 3 million images, with thousands of new ones from professional photographers and respected news agencies added each day.
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TopFoto opens new photography gallery
TopFoto, a stock photography library specializing in historical images, has announced that it has opened The TopFoto Gallery, a new space hosting photographic and visual image exhibitions of international, national and local interest. At launch the gallery is featurung a long-unseen exhibition of the work of the late John Topham, originally shown at the Impressions Gallery of Photography in York (1982). Based in Edenbridge, Kent (45 minutes direct train from London Bridge) the TopFoto Gallery includes The Eden Valley Gallery for local exhibitions, as well as rare historic displays from the archives of House of Jaques, sports and games manufacturer since 1795 and still in the original family’s ownership and whose building houses the gallery.
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ArabianEye launches website dedicated to photography production and photographer representation
ArabianEye, a stock photography agency based in Dubai and specializing in imagery of the Arab and Islamic world, has announced that it has launched a new site dedicated to production and photographer representation located at arabianEyeproduction.com. “arabianEye has been producing standout shoots for years – and we’ll continue to inject that same professionalism, originality and reliability into the shoots,” said Celia Peterson, Director, arabianEye. “Today’s digital media offers powerful and seemingly endless ways to create, communicate and connect. This amazing new site makes it easier than ever for our clients to get exactly what they want.”
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Kursiv releases KIM Keywording 1.5
Kursiv, a swiss stock photography agency that also offers keywording software called Kim Keywording, has announced that it has released a new version of its multilingual keywording software. KIM Keywording 1.5 offers many workflow improvements and introduces a simple method to prioritize keywords. The new version is a free upgrade for existing users. In a recent press release the company stated “KIM Keywording has been designed to take the pain out of keywording and to make the process both fast and reliable”.
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Sodapix sponsors image editor’s meeting and supports German Advertising congress
Sodapix, a stock photography company from Switzerland, has announced that it has teamed up with the press agency Remotephoto in sponsoring this years image editor’s meeting on July 18th in the “Trend quarter” Zürich Binz. The meeting is an annual convention; Getty Images supported it last year, after Keystone backed it in 2007.
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Vario Images exhibiting at German Book Fair in Frankfurt
Vario Images, a stock photography agency based in Bonn Germany has announced that it will have a presence at The Frankfurt Book Fair, an annual event billed as the largest book fair in the world. Historically The Frankfurt Book Fair hosts more than 7,300 exhibitors from over 100 countries and is the one of the most important marketplaces worldwide for books, media, rights and licensing. The event will be open for professional visitors on October 14th – 18th.
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Getty Images adds Flickr photo clouds feature to site
Getty Images, who first announced a deal with Flickr to monetize user-generated content from the photo-sharing site in July 2008, has just announced a new phase in the company’s campaign behind The Flickr Collection by adding a Flickr photo clouds feature to its site. This new feature lets users visually group images that catch their eye and share them as part of a social networking/creative inspiration experience.
