iStockphoto has launched
Feast, a new online community for creatives. Feast provides abundant helpings of inspiration from a diverse group of designers, photographers, directors, writers, marketing professionals and more. Feast’s centerpiece is a unique public mentorship between cutting-edge leaders in diverse fields such as photojournalist
Mario Tama and writer, director and producer
Kirby Ferguson, and protégés who apply to work with them online. In pre-launch, 25,000 people registered for Feast and 300 applied to be October protégés.
In Norbert Wu’s copyright infringement suit against Pearson Education, Inc. before Judge Richard J. Holwell, in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York the court GRANTED class certification to one of Wu’s causes of action.
Eastman Kodak’s stock lost more than half its value in volatile trading
on Friday amid fears that it is headed for bankruptcy. The company has
lost nearly $1.8 billion since 2007 and is set to borrow another $160
million from its $400 million line of credit.
The Young Photographers Alliance (YPA), has awarded scholarships to five talented young photographers from across the US: Katie Koti, Yale University; Kathya Maria Landeros, Massachusetts College of Art & Design; Hayden Myrick, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Alena Reyes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Kevin Truong, Pratt Institute.
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) will be launching a series of 10 free webinars on the “The Future of Art & Commerce” on October 5, 2011 between 1:00 and 2:30 pm EST. In the first session Susan Carr and Richard Kelly will deal with
What Everyone Should Know About Copyright. Click
here to register for this event. For details on all 10 webinars which will take place about every other week through March 2012 click
here.
The owners of VII Photo Agency have announced the revised roster of photographers represented by the agency. They include: Lynsey
Addario, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Stefano De Luigi, Venetia Dearden, Jessica
Dimmock, Adam Ferguson, Ashley Gilbertson, Ron Haviv, Davide Monteleone,
Seamus Murphy, Maciek Nabrdalik, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Tomas van
Houtryve and Donald Weber and VII's veterans Marcus Bleasdale, Ed Kashi, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Joachim
Ladefoged, Christopher Morris, Franco Pagetti, Stephanie Sinclair and
John Stanmeyer.
SuperStock, a leading stock photography agency specializing in
Contemporary, Travel, Fine Art, and Vintage imagery, has launched
SuperFusion, a new collection of value-priced royalty-free images
gathered from around the world. The collection features images from top
professional photographers including microstock stars Yuri Arcurs, Ron
Chapple, and Andres Rodriguez.
Visual Connections (formerly Picturehouse Marketing US) will be hosting
its annual Image Expo at the Altman Building in New York City on
Thursday, October 20th. This is a unique one-day opportunity for
image buyers, researchers, designers, art directors, and other users of
images and footage to discover new sources of imagery. More than 70
exhibitors from all around the US, Great Britain, Canada, Sweden,
Germany and France will be showing what they have to offer, and learning
from the people who use their images.
Many who enjoy photography and have had some success at licensing rights
to their images dream of quitting their “day job,” giving up a regular
pay check and taking pictures full time. This story offers a few things to
think about that apply both to photographers who hope to do commercial
assignments and those who want to license rights to stock images.
Corbis Images (
www.corbisimages.com), has highlighted nine of its signature collections and described some of what went into the thinking when creating the collection. The imagery in these collections ranges from commercial images, to unforgettable moments in history to natural wonders and iconic celebrities.