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Edward Whitley President of ACSIL (Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors) in America sent PAN this note:…

  After almost a year in the job Alamy CEO Andy Harding is to leave the agency. This just in from Alamy: ‘Alamy announce that current CEO Andy Harding will leave the business by mutual consent. Alamy Chairman, James West will resume accountability as CEO with immediate effect.’ James West…

Mega expands with another media content relationship ...…

PCN photo content moved ...…

This in from Annabel at the Imperial War Museums London  – IWM – an interesting find and now available to license. “Footage of Chilwell shell factory found in shed seen for the first time in 100 years Originally filmed by the War Office in 1917 to show the daily lives…

Dr Shahidul Alam, photographer, human rights activist and chairman of the Majority World photo library and Drik photo agency, has been forcibly removed from his home by law enforcement officers in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Some reports say he was removed soon after giving an interview on Al Jazeera about student protests…

Spotted by a PAN reader: The Asia Pacific region is looking for a photo editor to be part of a dynamic team in New Delhi which handles South Asia’s increasingly busy photo production. New Delhi has a four strong photo desk which handles the work of more than 30 virtually…

In 2016 PAN reported Barcroft Media owner Sam Barcroft celebrating 1 Million subscribers to his agency’s Barcroft TV channel on YouTube …two years later that’s grown to a massive 5 million subs –  Congrats! To celebrate this broadcasting milestone and thank the subscribers the team at Barcroft have put together…

Picture Researchers will save you time ...and money!…

I am pleased to report that off the back of an article on PhotoArchiveNews.com last month about New York based celebrity photo library MediaPunch looking to represent rare photo collections, they have signed 2 great collections. Good to get a reminder of the reach and readership of PAN these days! The…

  Getty Images has been named official photo partner to Twitter, with the platform using Getty Images as its premier content provider for editorial and commercial purposes. The partnership kicked off during the World Cup this month and was activated at Twitter Beach at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity,…

A colourful occasion set the scene celebrating London based photo agency Ardea at 50. This (and the photos ) from PAN reader Paul Brown Managing Director at Ardea the morning after the night before …Happy Birthday! Hi Will, Though you might like to see some of the results from the…

Here’s a great 5 point reminder for marketeers on the subject of using so-called free photos –  from UK PAN reader Picture Researcher Sally Claxton. Are free images worth the cost? As consumers we are regularly encouraged to make sure that we know the origin of the products we buy. …

Gallery Stock just boosted their photo library with an exclusive addition of images from advertising and lifestyle agency Tinker Street  – take a look HERE…

Online this week with a sparkling new photo agency website is Milan, Italy based Soevermedia. Photos and video are openly searchable  – and downloadable once you register. Photo desks will be able to navigate among thousands of images shot by the agency  photographers as well as browse the collections Soevermedia syndicates…

Update: 13 July 2018: Rex in London were straight onto this and then we were sent an update on the situation from Rex owner Shutterstock in New York – here I’m sure there is some kind of mis-communication here …but looking forward to reporting a satifactory outcome on this image…