Exclusive: Wednesday, June 29, 2011, the Prosecutor from the Paris District Court received a complaint against Corbis, owned by Bill Gates, for misuse of corporate assets, filing a fraudulent bankruptcy claim, and breach of trust !

08.07.2011[ read full story ]

If Sipa is purchased by DAPD in early July, 34 of the 91 staff members, including 14 photographers, will be fired. After negotiations on Monday, June 27, 2011, the staff voted internally to accept the German company’s terms. Although the buyer maintained its position to c...

01.07.2011[ read full story ]

As David Schonauer is travelling, this week’s american press review was not featured, so we have thus decided to compensate its absence with this image by Mark Booster published in the Los Angeles Times. A Greenpeace activist, Elise Nabors, dressed up as Barbie demonstrating in fr...

14.06.2011[ read full story ]

Kathleen Grosset, former director of both the Rapho press agency and Saphir (Syndicat des Agences de Presse Photographiques d’Information et de Reportage, was elected on Thursday, June 9, 2011, to run the French Federation of Press Agencies (FFAP) fo...

13.06.2011[ read full story ]

It was 6pm on Saturday. It was raining cats and dogs since the morning. The rain stopped 5 minutes before the ceremony. On the roof of their building in Dumbo Brooklyn, Elodie Maillet and Brian Storm got married. Their principal witness was their daughter...

18.05.2011[ read full story ]

After starting in France in 2009, Pixways has launched the service PixTrakk in the United States. PixTrakk is a solution that allows one to easily find the author of a photograph published both on paper or the Internet. This search is po...

17.05.2011[ read full story ]

The news fell yesterday: SIPA agency will be sold. The third mythical French agency, alongside Gamma and Sygma, will be sold to the German company DAPD. The agency was founded in 1973 by Göksin Sipahioglu, one of the last greats of the photography world. The m...

11.05.2011[ read full story ]

Peter Galassi, the Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, has just announced his separation from the New York museum. His departure will come into effect in July 2011. After completing a sabbatica...

04.05.2011[ read full story ]

The creation of a new publishing house is such a rare event that it must be announced. We have become so accustomed to hearing about publishing’s decline that this is an initiative worth talking about!

12.05.2011[ read full story ]

Sunday, two photographic works by the American artist Andres Serrano were destroyed by hammers by two visitors who managed to escape. Among the two works was one photograph entitled “(Immersion) Piss Christ”, showing a crucifix submerged in the urine of the artist.

19.04.2011[ read full story ]