Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Corbis Now Offering Retna’s Celebrity Photography

The latest coverage from the red carpet, film, music and fashion now at Corbis

London, UK, June 10, 2009. Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, and Retna today announced a new agreement to make Retna’s celebrity and entertainment photography available through Corbis.

With the new partnership, Corbis is in the process of adding 250,000 images from the Retna archive and will be adding thousands more of the freshest images every week from Retna’s comprehensive red carpet and breaking news entertainment coverage.

Veer Marketplace opens for image submissions

Calgary, June 08, 2009. Veer, a producer and provider of visual elements and design-related products, today opened the contributor section for Veer® Marketplace, a new low- priced image resource on veer.com. Photographers and illustrators from anywhere in the world can now create accounts and begin submitting their work to Veer Marketplace.

The Veer Marketplace site now provides these innovative features for contributors:

Options for fast image upload

• Contributors can upload images via their preferred FTP client or through an advanced web-based upload tool
• Contributors can submit many images simultaneously through a bulk upload system

Corbis Introduces Refreshed Web Site and New Photography Collections

Updated web site with more customer-friendly interface and new collections helps clients find the right images for their projects

Seattle, WA, June 01, 2009. Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced it has refreshed its web site at www.corbis.com and launched several new rights-managed photography collections. The enhancements make finding and licensing images from the Corbis web site easier and more convenient for customers.

Corbis Opens Sygma Preservation and Access Facility

New Facility Outside Paris Will Preserve Sygma’s Extraordinary Photography Collection for more than a Thousand Years While Making Images Accessible for Photographers, Researchers, Iconographers, Historians and Creatives Worldwide

London, May 15, 2009. Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced the opening of the Sygma Preservation and Access Facility, the culmination of the Sygma Preservation and Access Initiative started in 2004. The announcement was made at an event held at the new facility outside of Paris, France, attended by photographers, photo editors, government dignitaries, and executives from Corbis and Locarchives, the document management company that built the facility.

Corbis Launches New Motion Web Site with Significantly Expanded Collection

New Sophisticated E-commerce Web Site Is Easy for Customers to Use and Has Ten Times More Video Clips

Seattle, WA, April 06, 2009. Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced the launch of a new Corbis Motion web site with innovative features and a considerably larger footage collection, including tens of thousands of high definition(HD), rights managed(RM) and royalty free(RF) clips.

Corbis and Thought Equity Motion Announce New Partnership

Seattle, WA/Denver, CO, Jan. 14, 2009. Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, and Thought Equity Motion, the world leader in providing access to high quality film, video and music content, today announced a new partnership that will position both companies to compete more effectively in the fast growing footage licensing industry.

Under the new agreement, Corbis and Thought Equity Motion will cross-distribute content from their footage collections, enabling Corbis to increase the size of its footage collection and Thought Equity Motion to increase the distribution of its content through Corbis’ globally recognized brand, footprint and sales force.

Corbis Appoints Rajiv Jain As New Chief Technology Officer

Seattle, WA, Dec. 04, 2008. Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced that Rajiv Jain has been appointed as the company's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Rajiv will oversee all technology activities and be a member of the Executive Team based in the Seattle headquarters.

Rajiv has more than 20 years of technology and business experience in general management and product management roles with broad expertise in e-commerce, system software and internet solutions including Web 2.0 technologies.

Northfoto represents Corbis Royalty-Free

Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 14, 2008. Northfoto, Central and Southeastern Europe's leading distributor of visual content, announces that it has signed an agreement with Corbis to represent five of its royalty-free collections. The agreement allows Northfoto to market and license Corbis RF, Zefa, InsideOut Pix, Image100, and ImageShop, in its core markets of Hungary and Romania, as well as Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, and Russia.

"Having the capability to offer this fantastic collection of royalty-free photography to our growing base of creative clients is a great opportunity for this company," said Mark Milstein, the founder and managing director of Northfoto.

Veer launches new illustration collection Cherry

Bright, bold and relevant, Cherry reflects a trend toward a more hand-crafted aesthetic

Calgary, Nov. 06, 2008, Calgary. Veer, a producer and provider of visual elements and design-related products, has launched Cherry™, a new exclusive rights managed (RM) illustration collection.

The Cherry collection reflects the trend in illustration toward a DIY/analog aesthetic. The illustrators are a generation of artists as skilled with image software tools as they are with traditional drawing tools. Having grown up with computers and cable television but influenced by street art and graffiti, graphic novels, and Japanese animation, the artists’ work presents a more handcrafted quality.

New London Exhibition to Showcase Corbis Imagery

Interactive photographic display celebrates fall of the Berlin Wall

London, UK, Aug. 27, 2008. Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced that its photography will be displayed at the upcoming 'Create Berlin Goes London' exhibition. Corbis imagery will be used as part of a creative concept designed by two German agencies, Magma Brand Design and Xplicit.

Taking place one year ahead of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the exhibition celebrates the explosion of creativity and openness that resulted from the Wall's collapse. At this event, the theme 'Berlin - creative metropolis' will be illustrated by 20 top design concepts. These concepts were selected by a jury from over 70 submissions from German agencies.