This week, la Lettre is proud to start a new column. From now on, every week, we will show some of the most compelling work offered by photo agencies worldwide. This column will be a showcase where they will be able to present the work of their most talented photographer. Sometimes yet unpublished...

06.10.2011[ read full story ]

On the occasion of his visit to France, Corbis President Gary Shenk held this exclusive interview with La Lettre’s Michel Puech. The day before the interview, Gary Shenk declared that he “hoped to accompany the transformation of world media thanks to a partnership with the Associate...

23.09.2011[ read full story ]

Martin Vorderwülbecke is the owner of DAPD and Sipa press. They are two, just like the “Dupont” by Hergé, but they are “owners” of many hundreds of “Tintin” in Germany and now in France, as a consequence of the acquisition of Sipa press. Peter Low and Martin Vorderwülbecke are...

29.08.2011[ read full story ]

He is Mr. Photo of Paris Match, in other words the person whom all photographers dream of convincing about a project. By saying “yes” he can offer the front page or a double page or more in the magazine that after more than sixty years is still the major French weekly of news,...

01.09.2011[ read full story ]

For 40 years, on foot, by motorbike, then on a Vespa, Alain Dupuis was the King of press photo salesmen. The man who, from 1973 to 2000, helped Sygma and its photographers make a fortune. A myth, witness to this infamous “golden age” of photojournalism.

05.09.2011[ read full story ]

The days of traditional news agencies are gone, this is the era of stock photos online and based on an economic model comparable to that of Airlines: offshoring, removal of social benefits and cut throat competition.

30.08.2011[ read full story ]

Today, many millions of Sygma’s photographs, black and white and color originals are sleeping in a bunker near Dreux…” The man that said this, with a dry but calm tone, his voice tainted with anger and emotion is Hubert Henrotte, 77, retired, laid off from the company he created ...

31.08.2011[ read full story ]

Agence Vu photographer David Sauveur was the victim of a violent aggression on August 3 near 2 am while on vacation in the small French port of Collioure near the Spanish border. He remains in a coma.

19.08.2011[ read full story ]

« Concerning the two affairs that you evoked, the first is too recent, I have not yet been able to study it, but we are going to work on this with the Ministry’s photographic mission. For the second, I’m more optimistic, if there is a buy, we could presume that for the new owners, ...

10.07.2011[ read full story ]

The press conference of the ADIDAEPP (Association for the Defense of the Interest of Donors and Beneficiaries of the Former Photo Asset) ended at noon this Thursday July 7th in the Cour de l’Archevêché in Arles, smothered by the sun of the South of France, at noon.

08.07.2011[ read full story ]