Noor, the newest photojournalism collective launched in September during France's Visa pour l'Image festival, also presented itself to U.S. audiences with a two-day gallery exhibit in New York. Created in the tradition of the field's most respected agencies, including Magnum, Sygma and VII Photo Agency, Noor's mission is to promote a deeper understanding of the world by producing independent visual reports on important social, political, environmental and cultural issues.
As of November 2007, photographs by British royal photographer Tim Graham will now be available exclusively through the Getty Images Hulton Archive.
Corbis added a specialty royalty-free collection MedicalRF to its image inventory. Launched in July by the Dublin, Ireland-based Moore Film Ltd., MedicalRF contains 10,000 digital illustrations of human anatomy, disease states, medical devices, microscopic organisms and related concepts.
Las Vegas --The Berkshire, U.K.-based Capture Ltd. unveiled a completely revamped version of its Web-based back-office at the 2007 international conference of the Picture Archive Council of America.
Established earlier this year by former Getty Images' vice president Anthony Harris, London-based Cultura launched its initial royalty-free 5,000-image collection Monday.
Toronto-based Masterfile has launched a Web product similar to Getty Images: a new $49 Web-use license.