Photo Industry

Pieter Hugo Wins Discovery Award At Arles

The EUR25,000 prize was the big award given out at the Recontres d'Arles, which wrapped last week.
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Who's Shooting What

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Tue, 07/22/2008 - 02:00
The photographers and creatives behind new work for Gold Peak Iced Tea with Anomaly, Old Spice with Wieden + Kennedy, Chase with McGarry Bowen, Miller Lite with Upshot and more.
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F Award Goes to Leonie Purchas

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Mon, 07/21/2008 - 02:00
Photographer Leonie Purchas of the U.K. won for an essay about her family. The F25 Award went to Abdul Munem Wasif of Bangladesh.
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People On The Move

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Thu, 07/17/2008 - 02:00
New creative leadership at WPP Group, McCann Worldgroup and TBWA\Chait\Day, Getty's CFO takes a bow, Masterfile's new marketing manager, Jonas Karlsson's syndication deal and Icon news.
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Disembedded: Marines Send a War Photographer Packing

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Thu, 07/17/2008 - 02:00
The photojournalist Zoriah was removed from his embed this month after a graphic blog post about a suicide bombing in Iraq. (With an audio slide show.)
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Nik Launches Silver Efex Pro B&W Conversion Software

New plug-in for Photoshop and Aperture uses U Point Technology for precise B&W control.
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Aurora In Deal To Distribute Agence VU Photography

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Mon, 07/14/2008 - 02:00
Aurora will become the U.S. distributor for Paris-based Agence VU. VU represents over 80 photographers around the world.
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Phase One Announces P 65+ Full-Frame Medium Format Camera System

Phase One is introducing the P 65+ digital back and camera system, a full-frame 645 medium format system based on an advanced new chip platform.
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Who's Shooting What

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Fri, 07/11/2008 - 02:00
The photographers and creatives behind new work for Nokia for Lowe Singapore, IBM for Ogilvy, Mercedes for Mekley & Parnters, Pepsi with TracyLocke, Mazda with Doner LA, Tanqueray gin with VCCP London and a lot more.
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Newspapers Plan Corrections Over Iran Missile Photo

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Thu, 07/10/2008 - 02:00
Newspapers and Web sites around the U.S. were duped into running a propaganda photo handed out by the Iran Revolutionary Guard that turned out to have been digitally manipulated.
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Kenya Police Say They Have Five Suspects in Keegan Death

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Thu, 07/10/2008 - 02:00
Police are calling the crime a robbery, but still won't name the suspects, saying they have not been charged. Trent Keegan was found murdered on May 28.
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People On The Move

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Thu, 07/10/2008 - 02:00
Blender hires a new director of photography, Paul Melcher's new job with Rex Features, new advertising creatives at Energy BBDO, Carat and R/GA, plus much more.
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National Geographic Wins Another Appeal in Greenberg Case

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Thu, 07/10/2008 - 02:00
A federal appeals court that said a year ago that National Geographic did not infringe Jerry Greenberg's copyright has affirmed that ruling after a re-hearing.
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Getty Will Offer Some Flickr Photos For License

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Tue, 07/08/2008 - 02:00
A new partnership unites Getty Images, the biggest stock photo agency, with Flickr, which has 2 billion digital images.
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Q&A: Jonathan Klein of Getty Images and Kakul Srivastava of Flickr

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Tue, 07/08/2008 - 02:00
The heads of two major photography brands, Getty Images and Flickr, explain the partnership between the companies and what it means for photographers.
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Hasselblad Pushes the Megapixel Envelope with New 50MP H3DII-50 camera

50-megapixel Kodak sensor in H3DII-50 system is twice the size of largest "full-frame" DSLR chips.
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Data Robotics Launches Upgraded Drobo "Storage Robot"

Second generation storage device includes two FireWire 800 ports.
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Kathryn Cook Wins Inge Morath Award

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Mon, 07/07/2008 - 02:00
The $5,000 award will go to support Cook's project on the effects of the Armenian massacres in Turkey.
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VJ Villafranca Wins Ian Parry Scholarship

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Mon, 07/07/2008 - 02:00
Vicente Jaime "VJ" Villafranca, a freelance photographer in Manila, Philippines, has won the 2008 Ian Parry Scholarship.
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Who's Shooting What

Photo District News - PDN Newswire - Thu, 07/03/2008 - 02:00
The photographers and creatives behind new work for Four Seasons with Mullen, Miller Lite with Arc Worldwide, T-Mobile with Publicis, Southwest Airlines with GSD&M and more.
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