Paris-based PhotoAlto has hired Matthew Goodrich, formerly of Stockland Martel and Getty Images, to launch and manage an assignment-photography division. As vice president of business development, Goodrich will work out of PhotoAlto’s New York office.

Florida’s Art Life Images has expanded its offering with seven collections. The distributor now represents rights-managed images from All Canada Photo, France’s Spacephotos and Mexico’s TMC Images, as well as royalty-free stock by Built, Eyecandy, Hunt Stock and Simply North. Art Life also plans to launch its own iTravelstock brand of active-travel photography.

Kuvapörssi is the second Finnish stock-image agency to join age fotostock’s Technological Hosting Platform. THP hosts and administers stock-licensing operations of over 50 image distributors in different countries. In addition to outsourcing technical functions, Kuvapörssi also added some 2 million THP-hosted images to its local offering.

Fotolia’s new Reseller API targets traditional image agencies eager to get a piece of the microstock pie.

Alamy had gross sales in Q1 2008 of $8,097,000, up 18% from Q1 2007. 56% of the revenue for the quarter came from images submitted by photographers and 44% from agencies.