Paris agency hires four new sales and content executives.
Marketplace buyers want to be able to identify exclusive images.
Hamburg-based advertising photographer AL Accardo shoots rights-managed series.
PicScout remains exclusive Getty supplier of image-tracking services.
The new rights-managed editorial collection includes Heritage Images, which unites content from Britain's top museums and libraries.
Florida distributor has added a rights-managed active-travel offering to its 12-million-image inventory.
Many believe the marketplace has an oversupply of images. This raises several concerns for image producers.
"We are having fun here," says Jeff Shultz, owner of Anchorage-based Alaska Stock Images, which snagged the cover of this month's issue of
Newsweek. Shultz is also having a great month as a photographer: in a career-defining milestone, one of his images will be printed on a U.S. postal stamp commemorating Alaska's 50th anniversary of statehood.
Jerry Greenberg has once again petitioned the Supreme Court in his long-running battle with the National Geographic Society, which reused his copyrighted images without compensation in a CD-ROM compilation.
The American Society of Picture Professionals has named Jerry Tavin its 2008 Picture Professional of the Year. The award honors a current ASPP member’s significant contributions to photography, a singular outstanding achievement or longtime service to the organization and its members.