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Calling all young, amateur and established photographers across the world!

Dec 20. 2011
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The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 Competition has now started its global search for the most inspiring, evocative, compelling and challenging nature images.By entering you will take part in one of the world’s prestigious photography events and get the opportunity to:

  • Compete on equal terms for a share of the prize-pot of £30,000 - the winner of the coveted title, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, will be awarded £10,000
  • Win a trip to London to celebrate your accomplishments with your peers, members of the press, sponsors and VIPs, at the exclusive gala awards ceremony held at Natural History Museum
  • Garner extensive global media coverage – more than 670 million people were reached through the 2010 press campaign

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Cultural Heritage Reflection Group's report is available

Jan 10. 2011
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On 28th October 2010 CEPIC was amongst the 24 stakeholders's organisations selected to speak at the public hearing on the digitization of Europe's cultural heritage.

The Report of the high level Reflection Group on Bringing Europe's Cultural Heritage Online has been made available on 10 January 2011. The Report, called "The New Renaissance", highlights the challenges of digitizing Europe cultural heritage, qualifying Europeana as "probably the most ambitious cultural project ever undertaken at European scale".

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EYEDEA has found a buyer

Apr 11. 2010
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On 6 April 2010, the commercial court in Paris has chosen François Lochon, 54, former general director of Gamma Agency to take over the Eyedea group for 100.000 EUR.

The Eyedea group comprises some of the most prestigious names of France : Gamma, Rapho, Keystone but also Hoa Qui, Explorer, Jacana, Still and Top. According to newspaper Le Monde, Gamma and Rapho "embodied in the 1970s the excellence of photojournalism à la française ". Lochon will keep 22 of the former 65 staff and has committed not to sell any part of the agency's archive for the next 10 years.

Together the agencies have more than 30 million images, 11.000 authors, covering the entire 20th century. It is thought to be the third largest stock of photographs in the world.

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This is an Orphan Work too

Feb 22. 2010
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Ladislav Bielik, The Bare-chested Man in Front of the Occupier‘s Tank, August 1968

BySylvie FodorThe combination of groundbreaking technology and badly crafted legislation, could make any search of photographs, and by implication their authors, completely redundant.

Last week I received a phone call from the photo editor of a photo magazine in France: Le Magazine Littéraire. The photo researcher was desperately looking for the author of a photograph. Easy to google: just search for the name of the photographer “Bielik”. The picture appears at the top of the search in several formats: a beautiful and dramatic picture, showing a man baring his chest to a Soviet tank. This picture is world famous. It was published in several newspapers in the West, won several awards and became one of those symbolic photographs illustrating an historical event.

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The Polictics of the Image

Jun 14. 2008
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This is a speech by Dr. Michael Frendo, President of Malta’s Foreign Affairs Commission to open CEPIC Congress, Malta, 4 June 2008.

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We live in a society of images and as society develops further and as we struggle with one important dimension of our lives – time – while also struggling to adapt to being constantly bombarded with information, we seek to short-cut the system and get our information, form our opinions, make up our minds by absorbing images, often shaping perceptions which are stronger than reality.

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Back to Basics: It is All About the Picture

Jun 13. 2008
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This is a report by Steve Lake on Gilbert Duclos' Film "Off Limits", Peter Bielik's Exhibition "The Story of a Picture and the Spring of Bratislava 1968" and Peter Paul Barbara’s workshop "Malta, the Birth of Europe and the Four Elements" at the CEPIC Congress 2008 in Malta.

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CEPIC’S stated aim of encouraging delegates to ‘see pictures again’ at this year’s Congress in Malta may seem strange. Do 800 delegates, all engaged in the business of creating and selling photography, need to be reminded that seeing pictures is what it’s all about?

Maybe they do. Sitting in an audience of one watching Gilbert Duclos’ film ‘Off Limits’ on Saturday afternoon, it was hard to escape the feeling that the stock photography business has become all business and no photography.

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