Eric Charbonneau has joined WireImage, the entertainment photo agency and wire service, as staff entertainment photographer.

Charbonneau, who is based in Los Angeles, recently left Berliner Photography, where he covered the Academy Awards and Hollywood premieres for 18 years. His work has appeared in People, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone.

Bad timing and remote locations, rather than media sloppiness, were the main factors that contributed to initially erroneous press reports about the Sago, W.Va., mine disaster that killed 12, according to Todd Maisel, a staff photographer for the New York Daily News.

Hundreds of journalists from around the country traveled to Sago to document the rescue attempts, and photographs of the waiting families dominated almost every front page. On the NPPA website, Maisel, who also is Region 2 associate director for the National Press Photographers Association, described his experience...

Nikon has introduced its D200, a digital SLR camera that combines new technologies with features inherited from the D2X. The D200 employs a newly developed 10.2-effective megapixel DX Format CCD image sensor, for improved resolution and clarity. Its 1,005-pixel, 3D Color Matrix Metering II system determines ideal exposures even in complex lighting conditions, and an advanced image-processing engine provides clarity and...

Excerpts from a lively Q&A session at last year's PhotoPlus Expo, in which photographers talked directly with agents.

The discussion covered such issues as current stock pricing structures, submission guidelines, revenue percentage splits, diversification, new image marketing models and international emerging economies. Here are some highlights from the lively Q&A session...

Everything is moving so fast. And the advent and evolution of digital technologies has made it all possible. Think back to a time without laptop computers, e-mail, the Internet, cell phones and digital cameras. It seems like lifetimes ago, but it is, amazingly, a mere 15 years past – less than a generation. Yet now digital technology seems so commonplace that we often take it for granted.

The lightning speed of today’s world has dramatically transformed the photography industry in every channel – manufacturing, retailing, photofinishing, education, creative workflow and distribution of images. The photo industry is rapidly merging into the electronics industry, as Sony’s recent takeover of Konica Minolta’s photo division illustrates. The crystal ball suggests that more mergers will occur soon, as companies position themselves to capitalize on the digital boom ahead...