In the space of three years, iPhone applications like Instagram and Hipstamatic have become favorites among amateur and professional photographers alike. First seen as merely a retro fad, the saturated and high-contrast images produced by the apps soon began appearing in the pages of the ...

11.02.2013[ read full story ]

To launch our new photography publishing house, we selected a symbolic date, a symbolic place, and a symbolic subject. 
Many people worried about the supposed Mayan prophecies regarding the change of the solar calendar on the night of the 2012 winter solstice. So we chose the foll...

31.01.2013[ read full story ]

The annual meeting of the French Professional Photographers Union (UPP) was held on Saturday, January 26, 2013, at the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris. Roughly 300 photographers were present. “The number of member photographers supporting the UPP remains stable despite the diff...

30.01.2013[ read full story ]

On January 14, 2013, a New York court judged in favor of the Haitian photographer Daniel Morel in a case against the Agence France Presse, who posted on Twitter, without Morel’s consent, a photograph he took during the 2010 earthquakes.

24.01.2013[ read full story ]

On Monday, January 21, 2013, the administrative receiver Maître Poli will have on his desk all of the twenty or so proposals from lawyers and/or companies to take over the agency Sipa Press, which has been in bankruptcy reorganization proceedings since December 6, 2012. The quality of...

18.01.2013[ read full story ]

In a statement released on Thursday, December 13, 2012, in Munich, the company HQTA AG (formerly DAPD Media Holding AG, led by Peter Low and Martin Vorderwülbecke) sold its stake in the photo agency DPP Images to its founders, Ulf Schmidt-Funke and Katharina Doerk.

14.12.2012[ read full story ]

Following the bankruptcy of its German shareholders, the fates of the photo agency Sipa Press and the ambitious news and photo service, Sipa News, will be decided by the Tribunal de Commerce in Paris on December 6. On Thursday, November 22, in Paris, the weather was perfect for a visit to 1 ...

26.11.2012[ read full story ]

During a recent conference on the Digital Revolution, Aline Manoukian, president of ANI (National Association of Iconographers) spoke about the “new rules of photography in the French press.” The conference was organized by PAJ, an association of photographers, arti...

26.11.2012[ read full story ]