Stock photo giant Getty Images recently amended contract terms for its contributors, which enable the agency to move images that haven’t been licensed for three years or longer to its royalty-free collections.

This new addendum has caused an uproar among the photography community. In May, the American Society of Media Photographers and...

Photo auctions at Christie's and Phillips de Pury & Co. totaled $19.5 million in April. This amount is $1.5 million more than the auction houses reported from April 2010.

Phillips reported that auction sales records were set for several photographers, including Sebastião Salgado...

Photography enthusiasts were atwitter at the ninth annual All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., when Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on June 1 that the 140-character company will begin to offer photo sharing and improved search capabilities....

Getty Images has added two more imaging companies to its list of acquisitions: PicScout and Photolibrary.

PicScout is a front-runner in online image use, metadata and licensing technology. With this merger, Getty plans to improve its image identification technology by offering PicScout's tools to their global customer base.

Photolibrary is one of the leading global stock agencies, with more than 10 million images from....

French photographer Patrick Cariou has won his copyright lawsuit against New York artist Richard Prince and the Gagosian Gallery.

The ruling was issued by a federal court in New York earlier this minth, after the judge deemed that Prince had misused Cariou’s images by creating a series of paintings, as well as a collage...

The Western Publications Association has honored PhotoMedia magazine with a 2011 Maggie Award in the category of Best Single Editorial Photograph in a Trade Magazine.

The winning photo, of an anglerfish, was taken by Mark Laita and accompanied a profile on him in the Fall 2010 issue of...

With Japan producing 14 percent of the world’s electronics and manufacturing equipment, the shock waves from the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear crisis are still being felt two months later in the photography industry.

Camera front-runners such as Canon, Nikon and Sony had dozens of plants based near the earthquake epicenter in northern Japan...

Fighting between the military backed by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and rebel forces in Libya recently took the lives of two photojournalists: Tim Hetherington, co-director of the Afghanistan-war documentary “Restrepo,” and Chris Hondros, a photographer for Getty Images.

Hetherington and Hondros were known for their work documenting human rights issues by photographing images of war and suffering, so their presence...

During the recent political demonstrations in Egypt and Tunisia, photojournalists have faced harassment, media blackouts, threats, violence and even death as they tried to cover the wave of protests that have rippled across the Middle East in early 2011.

The recent 18-day uprising in Egypt, which deposed President Hosni Mubarak after a 30-year reign, was relatively non-violent, but still perilous for photographers and other journalists as they tried to document the protests in...

In an effort to figure out how many e-mails, videos, photos and other digital transmissions were collectively uploaded and passed around the web in 2010, Pingdom, an internet monitoring service, corralled a number of research reports and company statistics to create a visual representation of a single year of total internet data activity...