Getty Images is up for a panel spot at the next South by Southwest festival. However, we can only share our brightest ideas if we are invited by popular demand. So cast your vote today!

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Getty Images is proud to support and sponsor many photographic organizations such as the International Center for Photography, World Press Photo, Visa Pour L’Image, New York Photo Festival and the Eddie Adams Workshops.

We also like to recognize our friends in the fine art world and are happy to sponsor the Photographic Center Northwest’s (PCNW) 13th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition. The competition draws entries from across the US with jurors whom are nationally known, including Paul Kopeikin, Mary Virginia Swanson, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Charlotte Cotton, Michael Kenna and Keith Carter. This year’s juror is Rod Slemmons, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

Entries to the 13th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition are due May 9. Click here for additional details and good luck!

Motoyuki Kobayashi, a Getty Images contributing photographer in Tokyo, is included in the 2007 Art + Commerce Peek Festival, which recognizes outstanding emerging photographers.
The Peek website has video clips relating to each of the selected artists’ work. On the Peek site, click on this part of the collage of images to see the video for Motoyuki:

Pangea Day is a global event on May 10, 2008, conceived by documentary filmmaker Jehane Nouhaim (”Control Room”), that aims to tap “the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people”. Various cities around the world will be “videoconferenced live to produce a 4-hour program of powerful films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music”. Not exactly clear what’s gonna happen, but here’s the trailer, all the footage in which is courtesy Getty Images: