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Young Photographers Alliance announces 2nd Global Mentoring program

Jul 08. 2011
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Young Photographer’s Alliance (YPA), a 501(c)3 educational foundation dedicated to developing the talent of young photographers, has announced its second international mentoring opportunity for students and recent graduates of college-level photography programs.

This year’s theme, “Everything is Energy,” focuses on the powerful forces that shape our world, our politics, our environment, our lives and ourselves.

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Alamy teams up with NYI to speed stock photo search for US market

Jul 08. 2011
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Data center upgrade due to 30% growth in past year

Alamy (www.alamy.com), the world's largest independent stock photo site, today announced that NYI (www.nyi.net), New York's premier data center solutions provider, will oversee its infrastructure upgrade for North America, starting in New York. This decision is due to growing US sales of the company's images, which have increased 30% in the past year alone.

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Les ZOOMS 2011

Jul 08. 2011
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For the second year running, the Salon de la Photo proudly presents LES ZOOMS! These two awards were created to support and promote professional photography and increase public awareness of what a difficult job it is.

The Salon de la Photo wishes to ensure maximum media coverage for LES ZOOMS, flying the flag of practical photography for which the event is a major annual showcase.

On 6 October 2011 at 11 a.m., the award-winners of ZOOMS 2011 will be announced, honouring two professional photographers), one chosen by
representatives of the specialist photography press, the other by public vote on the website: http://www.lesalondelaphoto.com/

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Science Photo Library & RIA Novosti host 100th Russian in Space and Russian Ambassador

Jul 06. 2011
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A Cosmonaut, An Ambassador, The International Space Station, RIA Novosti and Science Photo Library? It’s no joke.

On July 1st 2011, RIA Novosti, Russia’s leading news agency and Science Photo Library, the world’s leading supplier of scientific and specialist imagery hosted a gala reception and private view of their recent photography exhibition. Held at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Hall’s Reflect series, it marked the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space flight.

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Embedded Metadata Manifesto (2011)

Jul 05. 2011
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The Manifesto was issued by the IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group in May 2011.

Photographers, film makers, videographers, illustrators, publishers, advertisers, designers, art directors, picture editors, librarians and curators all share the same problem: struggling to track rapidly expanding collections of digital media assets such as photos and video/film clips.

With that in mind we propose five guiding principles as our "Embedded Metadata Manifesto":

  1. Metadata is essential to describe, identify and track digital media and should be applied to all media items which are exchanged as files or by other means such as data streams.

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Vincent Baby new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the IPTC

Jul 05. 2011
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Vincent Baby of Thomson Reuters has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Press and Telecommunications Council (IPTC), succeeding Stéphane Guérillot of Agence France-Presse, the IPTC announced Wednesday following its 46th annual general meeting held in Berlin.

"IPTC holds a very special place at the crossroads of journalism and technology. Its standards and expertise are essential to the seamless interchange and user experience of news throughout the media industry", said Baby. "It is a privilege to chair such an organisation and to follow in the footsteps of Stéphane Guérillot, who has led it with distinction for the past six years."

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Winners of 'Clicks Beyond the Borders' Have Been Selected

Jul 05. 2011
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The official result of the photo competition promoted by 'Econnect project' in collaboration with WWF Italy for the free movements of wildlife and flora in the Alps.

A prestigious panel of experts chaired by Denis Curti, critic and director of the Milan office of the photo agency Contrasto and vice-president of the Forma Foundation, met on June 1st to evaluate the best three photos taken by the participants of the competition 'Clicks Beyond Borders'.

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SkaraborgsBild Covers UN Conference EuroMAB 2011

Jul 05. 2011
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It is with great pleasure we announce that picture agency SkaraborgsBild is the official partner of the international UN conference EuroMAB 2011, in the Biosphere Reserve Vänerskärgården.

Lake Vänern Kinnekulle has since 2005 evolved to become a model area for sustainable development in the world, a Biosphere Reserve. On June 2, 2010 the UNESCO MAB-ICC decided to appoint Vänerskärgården with Kinnekulle as an Biosphere Reserve.

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FOODPHOTO FESTIVAL 2011 Opens registration

Jul 05. 2011
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The second international FOODPHOTO FESTIVAL in Tarragona Spain will take place from 29th of September to 16th of October. During the festival world’s best Food Photographers will meet for exhibitions, workshops and networking

The exhibitions will be open to the public from 29th of September to 16th of October and will take place in the renovated docs in the harbour of Tarragona. Photographers from all over the world have applied for participation - and half of the exhibitions have already been selected by the organizers.

Among the participants are:

  • Roland Persson (Sweden), professional photographer of many cookbooks, will be showing his work from “food to eat at least once in your life”, that won the first prize for best printing of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

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CEPIC Congress in Pictures Moving and Stills

Jul 03. 2011
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Discover the images and videos that covered the CEPIC Congress in Istanbul 2011.

The Pictures

The official CEPIC Congress Photographers from CTK Photobank - Petr Mlch and Rene Fluger - covered most of the sessions, parties and networking events.

The Videos

The presentations of the New Media Conference 2 and of the Statkeholder Meeting have been recorded by ReeldealHD.