Film director Jeff Orlowski has won the Audience Award at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival in March for his debut feature, "Chasing Ice," following the work of National Geographic photographer James Balog and his multi-year photography project to capture the earth's changing ecosystem. The film — which debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival and is scheduled to screen at the Seattle International Film Festival in May—uses many of Balog's still images and time-lapse videos of vanishing...

Thirty-six large-scale prints by contemporary American photographer William Eggleston brought in $5.9 million at a Christie's auction in March. Meant to expand the reach Eggleston's work, digital pigment prints were made for this auction. This is the first batch of Eggleston images not printed with his traditional dye-transfer technique...

Selecting "blind carbon copy" or "carbon copy" can make a big difference for an e-mail message — at least that's what celebrity photo agency Retna discovered when they sent out a message to more than 250 contributors in January to alert them of a simple address change. After receiving the e-mail, recipients hit...

All editorial contributors for Getty Images should take notice of a new contract in place this year—one, all-encompassing deal that gives 35 percent royalties for all image sales. Currently, there are multiple contracts in place that pay some contributors up to a 50 percent royalty. Getty made the announcement in November and gave contributors 30 days to sign...

United States-based private equity firm The Blackstone Group will buy 44 percent of Leica Camera. The deal, which will be completed by...

Monsoon rain and flooding last October in Thailand caused significant losses for Nikon, Canon and Sony manufacturing plants in the region. According to the Bangkok Post, the industrial park where Sony resides suffered $1 million in damages. Floodwaters there took nearly a month to recede. Sony's plant, which produces CCS and...

After admitting that the company had used $1.7 billion in payments to cover up losses on investments, Olympus' Japanese stock fell 49 percent in two days in January. This latest drop now brings the company's total stock value loss to 70 percent since October, when Olympus fired its British CEO and president, Michael Woodford.

An outside committee appointed by Olympus released the information about the payouts and also found that...

Unable to sell off some of its 1,100 patents to stay out of debt, Eastman Kodak Co. is preparing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy-protection filing. If successful, Kodak will have sold 10 percent of the company's patent portfolio, and will have potentially generated $3 billion in sales.

Currently, Kodak has obtained $950 million in financing from Citibank to maintain operations, which will allow the company to...