Young adults lifestyles seem to be among the most affected by the recession. This month, Corbis highlights what the company has dubbed the "open nest" syndrome: college graduates returning back home.
Fotolia-owned free stock site PhotoXpress has released a statement claiming to have "flourished into the online global leader of stock photography" by offering the largest free-image inventory: 400,000 files.
In response to customer demand for smaller file sizes for Web and mobile uses, Getty Images will begin to license 170-pixel and 280-pixel images. Priced starting at $5 for royalty-free and $15 for rights-managed content, the new sizes supplement Getty's existing $49 413-pixel product.
Mannie Garcia---who shot the photo of then-Senator Barack Obama used by Shepard Fairey as the basis of the "Hope" presidential election poster---has joined the ongoing lawsuit between Fairey and the Associated Press.
Getty Images rejects the charges against freelance photographer Majid Saeedi by Iranian prosecutors. Saeedi was among a number of photographers arrested in July for alleged anti-establishment activities.
San Francisco-based Cutcaster has launched a "best of the best" collection under a name that takes on iStockphoto's recent launch of premium collection Vetta.
Annie Leibovitz's debt crisis has reached a crescendo. Multiple media outlets have reported that the celebrity photographer's last-hope lender, Art Capital Group, has sued Leibovitz for breach of contract. Art Capital also asked the courts to interfere in the photographer's relationship with Getty Images, asserting that Leibovitz has assigned sole representation rights to the art broker as part of the loan agreement.