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PhotoAsia would be interested to hear from photographers who have stock images covering the following topics:

Hari Raya is the main festival for Muslims in Malaysia, marking the culmination of Ramadhan. For a sample of what we are looking for, take a look at our special Hari Raya Gallery. With Ramadhan just around the corner, we’re looking for the following images:

1. Practising silat – demonstrating moves, group or single person
2. Lifestyle – family celebrating Ramadhan, breaking fast, preparing traditional cakes like ketupat, visiting parents in kampung setting, lighting oil lamps
3. Still life – close-up of oil lamps, ketupat, etc.
4. Entertaining non-Muslim guests, serving traditional cakes/food

If interested, please contact Christopher Tvärne for more details at chris@photoasia.com.my.

PhotoAsia would be interested to hear from photographers who have stock images covering the following topics:

The current market trend is targeting the modern Muslim consumers. Agencies are now working towards Islamic branding for their clients. In view of this PhotoAsia is looking for images related to Muslim lifestyle big time. These images do not necessarily have to be taken in Malaysia. They can be from any Muslim countries worldwide particularly from Indonesia, Turkey, Middle East, Pakistan even in Europe and the United Kingdom.

1. Shopping – interior shots of Muslim men and women shopping in luxurious shopping malls, supermarket (inspecting packaging/product, at checkout counter, paying with credit card)
2. Business meetings/discussion in office or conference room, presentation, at the computer, using modern technology gadgets, etc.
3. Dining in restaurants, relaxing with friends in cafe
4. Muslim praying – group or single person
5. Leisure – vacation/holiday destinations, kids playing the park, relaxing in the sun, family picnic, etc.
6. Watching TV with family, working at home with PC & mobile phone
7. Muslim housewives doing laundry, in a modern kitchen, feeding baby, family meal time.

Images with identifiable people needs signed model releases. The client is going to use the images for commercial purposes.

If interested, please contact Christopher Tvärne at chris@photoasia.com.my.

Portrait of Athlete in front of temple. Photo Credits: Blue Jean Images

PhotoAsia is now representing Blue Jean Images, a boutique Beijing-based photo agency, specializing in the production and distribution of the best in China-focused creative imagery. With 10,000 Royalty Free images to choose from, Blue Jean Images’s vision is to create a culturally authentic, globally saleable, visual resource point for an emerging New China.

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PhotoAsia successfully recovered damages for copyright infringement from a client who sheepishly confessed that they have used our images for commerical use without authorisation. After five weeks of negotiations the client finally agreed to pay RM127,790 ($38,438.83) in damages for the use of 30 images from 18 different photographers represented by PhotoAsia. The 18 photographers have not been contacted yet but they should be getting their share of the damages by the first week of April 2010.

What caused the client to confess this infringement? We found out later that another library has sent them a lawyer’s letter for copyright infringement for an image. This started a chain reaction and the client decided to do some housekeeping, digging out all their projects that used images to see whether they have all been paid. To their horror they discovered that the staff in charge of these projects have not paid for the reuse of many images or renewed the licence to continue using some of the images. According to the client the staff has already resigned sometime ago and her inefficiency has only now been uncovered.

This particular client has been a regular and loyal client and we have no reason to doubt that this was an oversight on the part of one individual staff and not a deliberate desire of the company to infringe our copyright. In view of the fact that they themselves came forward to make retribution, we were happy to reduce the penalty and charged the client only three times the normal rate. They even came to hand us the cheque personally and I have to say that this is the easiet settlement that we have experienced and without the aid of a legal counsel too!

View of a young woman exercising in a forest. Photo Credits: ImageDJ

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Doreen Lau (left) presenting cheque to Pastor Johnson (right)

PhotoAsia organized a charity calender project in partnership with photographers and photo libraries who generously donated their images for use in the 2010 desktop calendar. Four thousand copies of the calendars were sold and and MYR10,000 were raised from the sales.

PhotoAsia hopes to continue to use its images to make a difference in the lives of the underprivileged and like to thank all the libraries and photographers who have willingly agreed to allow their images to be used for free in the charity calendar. It was through their support and the assistance of many people who have helped in every which way they could that PhotoAsia had succeeded in raising MYR10,000 for Stepping Stones Home. We hope with their continued support this will be the first of many such projects initiated by PhotoAsia.

The cheque was presented to Pastor Johnson, founder of the Stepping Stones Home which is located in Taman Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur. The Home provides a safe haven for children from needy and broken homes regardless of background or belief.

About Stepping Stones Home

Stepping Stones Home is located in Taman Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur. It was started in November 1998 by Pastor Johnson to provide a safe haven for children from needy and broken homes. Currently, children and single mothers are welcome into the Home regardless of background or belief, and are taught to live in, by and for God.

The Home in Taman Seputeh is the first. There are four others which make it possible for older boys and girls to be housed separately. The Home, which has 110 children, 12 mothers and 10 elderly persons is totally dependent on contributions from well wishers and friends.

Please support the Stepping Stones Home to enable the Home to answer every child’s cry for help, every single mothers plea for financial aid and every elderly person’s need for shelter.

PhotoAsia will be continuing organising such projects to raise funds for a needy home annually. Should you wish to support this project in any small way do contact us at 03-7955 3237 or email us at info@photoasia.com.my.

Join to support the children on the Stepping Stones Homes Facebook page.

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Red Chinese lanterns display at Thean Hou Temple, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during Chinese New Year celebrations. Photo Credits: Wong Sze Fei

The Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is the most important annual festival for the Chinese community and is celebrated all over Malaysia. The first day of spring in the Lunar Calendar this year falls on the 14th of February 2010.

Marking the first day of the first new moon, Chinese New Year is traditionally an occasion to settle old debts and begin the year with a clean slate. Prayers and offerings are made. New clothes are bought and plenty of food are prepared. Although the festivities continues for fifteen days, the main festival is celebrated on the first three days. On the eve of the Chinese New Year, the family have a joint family dinner to welcome the New Year. Younger ones of the family visit their relatives and get red packets of lucky money known as ang pow as gifts.

PhotoAsia would like to take this opportunity to wish all our friends, good fortune, good health and a prosperous new year!

Portrait of a young woman standing in a robe in a garden. Photo Credits: ImageDJ

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Young family with one child in traditional clothes smiling at the camera with hands clasped. Photo Credits: IMAGEMORE

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