PDN News for the Photography Industry

Photographers realized that unreported sales and non-payment are a common occurrence for the celebrity photo agency after a mass e-mail accidentally put contributors in touch with each other.

We pick our favorite pieces of all-around glass for a range of photo assignments.

The once giant film company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. If a bankruptcy judge approves, Kodak could continue operations with the help of a Citigroup loan.

AP's chief Asia photographer David Guttenfelder will help oversee staff in the new bureau, operating in a country famous for restrictions on foreign press.

PDN's technology specialist, Dan Havlik, shows us his favorite cameras from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show.

PDN's technology specialist, Dan Havlik, shows us his favorite cameras from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show.

The pioneering still-life photographer and teacher died January 1.

Best known for her portraits of Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities, Arnold was also a passionate and prolific photojournalist who documented the lives of ordinary people all over the world.

De Sinéty, who for more than two decades photographed daily life in one farm village in Brittany, died at her home in Rangeley, Maine on December 22.

The 25,000 euro photo competition implodes over the exclusion of a finalist for a project that was allegedly "too pro-Palestinian."

A photographer landed in legal hot water for using a pop song in a wedding video without permission, and the incident has highlighted an uncomfortable problem: A lot of other photographers are violating music copyrights with slide shows and videos they create for wedding clients.

PDN looks back on the biggest photography news stories of 2011, a year marked infringements on the rights of photographers, by sticky legal cases whose results will be felt long into the future, and by tragedy.

The November 8 sale at Christie’s auction makes Gursky's “Rhein II” the most expensive photo sold at auction.

Who's Shooting What is a PDNonline.com feature that highlights recent photo assignment work of note. Follow these instructions to have your work considered for mention in Who's Shooting What.

Stephen Ferry has received the first-ever Tim Hetherington Grant. The grant was established to honor Hetherington, the photographer and filmmaker who was killed in Libya in April, 2011.

Learn about three recent infringement cases brought by photographers against television networks for using images without their permission.

Entertainment photographer Kristian Dowling has won a $7,500 court judgment in California against entertainment photo agency Picture Group and its owner, Frank Micelotta, for unpaid royalties.

The $30,000 will support “I Love You Real Fast,” her ongoing project on young women in Swaziland. Dominic Bracco has won a Smith Fellowship.

A federal court rejects the stock agency's bid to dismiss a claim over unauthorized use of a trademarked air freshener product in a series of stock images.

LaChapelle agrees to drop his $1 million copyright infringement claim over Rihanna's music video after she agrees to an undisclosed settlement.