Category Archives: Photography

Record donations received for journalists killed in Georgia

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An appeal launched by Editorial Photographers UK (EPUK) has raised £1,330 for the families of two journalists killed during the recent conflict in Georgia.

The families of photographer and news agency head Sasha Klimchuk and journalist Giga Chikhladze received an equal share of the money after it was wired to them in Tiblisi, Georgia, last week.

A statement on the EPUK website read:

“The families were dependent on incomes from Sasha’s photography and from Giga’s journalism. The generosity of EPUK members means the families can begin to rebuild their lives after the tragedy.”

Friends Sasha and Giga vowed to support each other’s families should something happen to one of them in the war-torn environment. They were both shot and killed by gunmen in Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, on August 9 2008

Giga’s widow thanked the EPUK not only for the donations, but also for the many messages of support, the statement said.

End of the Digital Railroad? Photography site is in financial trouble

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Last week it emerged that the online photo archive and marketing site for professional photographers, Digital Railroad, may well be forced into liquidation.

According to a report over at the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), the site is struggling to keep its head above water.

The NPPA report that the Digital Railroad has “informed their members, customers, and partners today they recent efforts to find additional funding ‘required to sustain its current level of operations’ have been unsuccessful, and as a result there will be staff reductions and greatly reduced spending.”

Digital Railroad was founded in 2003 by Evan Nisselson, and the aim was to provide web based archiving and marketing for the professional photographer on a global basis. 

PA celebrates 140 years with museum exhibition

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The Press Association (PA) sent us this rather lovely photo to announce a new exhibition celebrating 140 years of the agency, which will open at Bradford’s National Media Museum on October 18.

The picture from New Year’s Day 1930 shows ‘despatch manager’ Walter Cattermole, flanked by PA News messenger boys, outside the organisation’s former home in Fleet Street, London.

Lost your camera? Join Iwantmycameraback.com

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Iwantmycameraback.com is inviting photographers to submit the details of lost or stolen camera equipment to its online database.

Users can list the brand, model and serial number of equipment on the site, allowing prospective buyers to check that gear on offer doesn’t belong to someone else.

An RSS feed of new entries to the database has also been set up.

DAG hands over cameras to readers…

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Dutch newspaper DAG handed out 1000s of disposable cameras to its readers today, the Newspaper Innovation blog reports.

Recipients have been asked to take one photo with the camera and then pass it on. The last person should return the camera to the paper for the pics to be developed.

A rough translation from the site suggests the aim is to get a snapshot of 24 hours from 27 (the number of pictures on the film) different perspectives.

The paper will then publish some of the photos with the best winning a prize – announced on October 1.

Splash partners PicScout to open up images to online publishers

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Online publishers will now have free access to licensed images from celebrity news agency Splash News, as the agency teams up with image technology firm PicScout.

Using PicScout’s PicApp tool, Splash hopes the deal will address the concerns of content owners and photographers about copyright and use of material online

“Making Splash content available through PicApp offers an innovative way for thousands of blog sites to enter the content licence market by utilizing our images with PicApp’s ad-funded technologies and in turn, exposes our rich database of images to millions of people. Splash teams with PicApp to reduce online piracy and to create a new media revenue stream for its contributors,” said Gary Morgan, CEO of Splash News, in a press release.

An RSS feature on PicApp allows users to set up automated criteria for the images they want with an alert sent to them when this material becomes available.

Spot the difference: AFP withdraws ‘digitally altered’ missile shot

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) has retracted a photo of Iranian missile tests published this morning, stating the image had been ‘apparently digitally altered’ by Iran’s state media, the New York Times’ Lede section reports.

It was too late for the print editions of the LA Times, Financial Times, Chicago Tribune and others, who ran the pic on the front page, and for the BBC, New York Times and Yahoo News websites.

Below – spot the difference between 1) the AFP’s image…

Digitally altered image of Iranian missile tests from Agence France-Presse

…and 2) an image later obtained by the Associated Press:

An Associated Press image of Iranian missile testing

According to the Lede’s report, the agency said the fourth missile may have been added to mask a grounded missile that failed to launch during the test.

Getty teams up with Yahoo to tap into Flickr users

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Getty Images is to collaborate with Yahoo-owned image-sharing site Flickr to harness the potential of the site’s members.

Through the partnership Getty will invite Flickr members to contribute their images to a ‘Flickr branded collection’ on the agency’s website. Pics in this collection will then be made available for licensing by Getty’s clients.

Editors from Getty will select the members and the two companies are currently working on online tools for contacting Flickr users.

Members who chose to submit their images to the collection will hand over exclusive commercial rights of the photos to Getty.

“Flickr members will benefit from Getty Images’ global sales and distribution teams helping to market their images and from Getty Images’ expertise and experience in rights and clearances of visual content. Getty Images’ customers will benefit from the fresh, unique and individualistic perspectives of members within Flickr’s global community,” a release from Yahoo said.

A launch date for the collection is yet to be announced.