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  Fotofringe London 2018 | Tuesday 17 April at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London The 8th annual fotofringe London is open today! Follow the lead up on Twitter @PANupdate @fringeflow #fotofringelondon Exhibitors for 2018 so far include 9 new first-time exhibitors joining some of the top specialist and general collections in the world. Adobe;…

Celeb Mash-up – Identify the personalities to win free flights at Fotofringe – courtesy of Mirrorpix Visitors to the Mirrorpix table at Fotofringe London tomorrow will be in with a chance to win a pair of flight tickets to a European destination of their choice. To enter, visitors will simply…

At Fotofringe London this week (Tuesday 17 April) Image Source will be announcing a new partnership with high end stock photo production brand Luxy Images to deliver a bespoke image service direct to clients in Europe. Luxy Images is a new multimedia photo production business run by Stewart Mungeam and his…

  Visit News UK at table 3/BB and play our ‘When they were young’ game at Fotofringe London April 17 Guess the faces correctly to be in with a chance of winning a signed and framed cartoon print of your choice by multi-award winning Times cartoonist Peter Brookes.…

Aerial 360˚ video creator AirPano be will moving their distribution from Getty Images to Blend Media – exclusively – starting May 2018. …And this all comes hot on the back of a VCG/Blend distribution announcement last week. Expansion is in the ‘air’! Blend currently offers 15,000 360° clips. New content will include…

The Digital Media Licensing Association DMLA annual conference will be held in Los Angeles this year. …The venue is in a hotel within walking distance of Venice Beach so you can soak up the California sunlight while you discuss and contemplate future of stills and video licensing for your agency.…

Congratulations to Ardea, one of the UK’s leading wildlife, pet and environment picture libraries, for reaching their golden anniversary this year. A year of celebrations for this milestone in Ardea’s history will begin at fotofringe 2018 on 17thApril.  At 11am a special anniversary cake will be cut and shared out…

Look out for Colour Balance Images a new ‘two-sided images marketplace featuring culturally, ethnically and racially diverse people, communities and environments’ which launches at Fotofringe London on April 17th They say: ‘The image bank is dedicated to authentic and representative imagery stemming predominantly from Africa, Asia and Central and South America.’ The…

The busiest photo agency in Hamburg Germany ddpimages are online this week with a brand new website. They told PAN: ‘Registered users can browse the database and its collections of the most interesting events. And the site stays user-friendly: Proven search filters and new categories support the image search. A quick…

A visit to the Werner Forman Archive team on table 24 in the Battlebridge room at Fotofringe London April 17 will complete your ancient world photo search ….In his 70-year career, Werner Forman photographed many important centres of culture. He took pictures of archaeological sites, evocative landscapes, architecture, art and artefacts from many…

Blend Media, a photo agency specialising in creating, customising and publishing 360˚ and virtual reality (VR), content have partnered with Visual China Group to meet the growing demand for 360˚ content in Asia.…

akg-images illustrate the history of world culture through an iconographic collection which spans archaeology and history through to performing arts, fine arts and photography. We look forward to seeing new and familiar faces at Fotofringe 2018. Come talk to us at table H2/1 for a chance to win a canvas print.…

Fotofringe exhibitor Artimage are giving away a stylish Patrick Caulfield print to one lucky attendee. visit their table H2/19 register for a free account on their website for your chance to win the print above.…

Michael-John Jennings the Picture Librarian at the Times (News Licensing) who recently penned his Sir Roger Bannister photo find here on PAN has opened his own photo exhibition The Everyday & The Estuary– ‘MJ’ presents an inspiring and evocative selection of images of Southend-on-Sea. “I have always been fascinated in photographing the…

Fotofringe exhibitor living4media -part of the photo library group which includes StockFood and seasons.agency- are online this week with a new website. The new design includes additional user-friendly functions: Faster search: From the welcome page, a search by category function. Fresh insights: Under “New Features” and “New Images” on the…

Sad news reached the PAN office overnight. Frank Griffin the co founder of Los Angeles based celebrity photo agency Bauer-Griffin has died. We have no other details at this stage but we are in touch with the agency and hope to get a formal announcement soon. Englishman Frank moved to…

ImageBrief the photos-on-demand service which launched in 2011 has shut down. Contributors and users were notified on the 1 March and the agency site now shows a no longer active and thanks notice. View the 2012 PAN article on ImageBrief here        …