The Photo Feed 05.14.08

With New API, Reuters Says, “Let My Content Go” (Mashable via StockPhotoTalk)
Welcome to the 21st century: Using a non-commercial API offering, Reuters is giving web developers free access to its news content. This will enable developers to create applications around Reuters news (and pix) and better integrate Reuters content into existing applications and Web sites.

Shutterstock Gives Pay Raises (Microstock Photography / PDNPulse)
When Shutterstock announced that pay raises were coming in early May, they wouldn’t say just how much pay would increase. Now they’ve unveiled their new tiered pay scale, where pay per download is determined by a contributor’s total lifetime earnings. Those earning less than $500 ever get $0.25 per download. Those who have made $500 to $3,000 get $0.33. Contributors get $0.36 per download if they’ve eared $3,000 to $10,000 and $0.38 if they’ve made over $10,000.

The New Republic Borrows A Page From Time (Portfolio / PDNPulse)
Recently, The New Republic complained because Time’s NBA-inspired concept cover was similar to its own. Now it appears that The New Republic has imitated a 2004 Time cover featuring Howard Dean. Like the Dean cover, The New Republic cover shows an unfinished watercolor rendering, albeit of Barack Obama instead of Dean. TNR editor Franklin Foer calls the similarity unintentional: “Nobody here has any recollection of seeing that cover,” he told Portfolio. “Maybe we should get a subscription to Time."

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Canon To Sponsor Getty Images’ London Gallery (British Journal of Photography)
Getty Images’ London gallery is getting a boost from the camera manufacturer that has made many of its images possible. Beginning with the Peacocks and Pinstripes men's fashion exhibit in June, Canon will sponsor the gallery for two years. The gallery’s current show, which celebrates 20 years of Hello! magazine, is sponsored by Canon’s competitor, Nikon.

For The Blairs, Dark Day Yields Dark Photo (Telegraph)
If you looked at a photo (left) of Cherie and Tony Blair shot at the Anthony Gormley exhibit in Beijing a few years ago, you probably wouldn’t recognize the emotional weight of the moment for the couple. According to Cherie’s forthcoming memoir, that photo, which she keeps in her study, was shot the morning the former British Prime Minister learned of UN weapons inspector David Kelly’s suicide. “'You are a good man,’” Cherie recalls telling her husband as they crouched in the exhibit for photographers. “‘And God knows your motives are pure, even if the consequences are not as you had hoped.’”

Girl Wins Bachelor, Goes Wild (People)
Participating in the latest season of The Bachelor didn’t just win Shayne Lamas a ring from bachelor Matt Grant. It also landed her a six-page photo spread in Girls Gone Wild magazine. As Girls Gone Wild publisher Joe Francis described his new cover girl in a press release, “Shayne has a genuine ‘girl next door’ quality. But she also happens to be very hot.”

Gnarls Barkley Video Imitates Photog’s Work (Boing Boing)
After photographer Clayton Cubitt and René Garza fused African tribal style with working class British skinhead punk for their “Lagos Calling” project last year, Cubitt noticed that something similar in Gnarls Barkley’s “Going On” video. Unbeknownst to Cubitt, Gnarls Barkley’s production people had contacted his stylist to find out where the beaded African accessories came from. Even though Cubitt and his stylist didn’t get any credit for the video, the photographer appreciates the flattery.

World Press Photo Back Stories (World Press Photo via APAD / PDN)
Like all images, the photos that won World Press Photo awards earlier this year have a story that goes well beyond what we see. To learn the story behind each of the 2008 winning pictures, check out these interviews with the winning photographers.