March 23, 2009
Sony honours photographer Riboud with lifetime award
Renowned French photojournalist Marc Riboud is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award next month. Picture credit: Copyright Marc Riboud Collection
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March 20, 2009
Digital cameras continue to fight off recession (update)
UK sales of digital cameras continue to grow despite the recession, according to figures released today. Model shown for illustration purposes only
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March 20, 2009
Pictures: Historic Tutankhamun photo treasures unearthed
A series of historic 'snapshots' documenting activity around the tomb of Tutankhamun, shortly after it was discovered in the early 1920s, will be revealed at auction on 31 March. Picture captioned 'Gold Coffin of Tut…
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March 19, 2009
Google Street View: We did not breach privacy (update)
Google has launched its Street View service in the UK, accompanied by a statement claiming that it has not breached any privacy laws.
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March 19, 2009
Pentax makes statement on Hoya jobs threat
Pentax has this morning issued a statement following reports that its owner, Hoya, is to slash half its digital camera workforce in Japan and make cutbacks overseas.
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March 18, 2009
Photos of London fire on Twitter
Photos of a large fire in central London have popped up on the social networking website Twitter, beating many news organisations to the post.
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March 18, 2009
Historic Kodak photographs revealed for first time
Photographs and documents charting the development of photography from a hobby for the rich, to a popular British pastime, have been revealed for the first time. Picture: Courtesy British Library
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March 18, 2009
Sony names its ‘Campaign’ photo winner
An amateur photographer from Pakistan has won a Sony award with an image that best captured the 'spirit of football in places where you would least expect it'. Picture: © Sarah Ahmad, courtesy Sony World…
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March 17, 2009
Getty: We will pay amateur photographers same as pros
Getty Images has finally stated that it will pay amateurs the same rates for Flickr Collection images as professional contributors receive for images sourced from elsewhere in the agency's archive.
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March 17, 2009
Uncertainty shrouds photography legend’s archive
The work of legendary war photographer Philip Jones Griffiths, who died a year ago this week, has yet to find a permanent home, according to a Welsh newspaper.
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March 16, 2009
Getty fails to clarify fees issue
Getty Images has refused to clarify whether amateurs contributing to the picture agency, via the Flickr Collection, will get paid as much as the agency's regular professional photographers.
