Magnum lost two great photographers in the past month.

Burt Glinn 
Philip Jones Griffiths

The Getty has acquired Irving Penn’s master set of prints from his series, The Small Trades. Penn considered these blue-collar portraits some of the most important of his long and influential career.
Article in the NY Times.

The kibbutz, a photographer’s community in Brooklyn, has been shut down after city officials found a bakery in the basement with 50,000 pounds of wheat grain (stored grain can be highly combustible). The move has left a number of photographers homeless including National Geographic photographer David Alan Harvey.
Article and image from Pop Photo’s State […]

The VII Photo agency announced a new division this week called VII Network, which will represent projects by photographers who are not VII members.
At its launch, VII Network is representing seven freelance photojournalists: Eric Bouvet, Jessica Dimmock, Tivadar Domaniczky, Balazs Gardi, Ben Lowy, Stephanie Sinclair and Donald Weber. VII Network will represent these photographers […]