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This in from Camera Press: Camera Press were founded 70 years ago this month and the first images they circulated were of the wedding of the then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1947 by the society photographer Baron.  So seven decades on we were honoured to be allowed to…

A couple of days after our announcement that All Over Press owner IBL had sold the agency to TT News we had this in from All Over Press agency manager Kasper Jørgensen who has resigned all roles at the company. “Hi Will, After 18 years working in All Over Press and the…

Photo agency Scanpix in Denmark – which works closely with affiliates in Sweden and Norway, and with Reuters and AFP and EPA – has been sold to the Danish news agency Ritzaus Bureau A/S. The name of the new image agency will be ‘Ritzau Scanpix’. Ritzaus Bureau takes over all Scanpix…

In Sweden, TT News Agency has acquired established photo agency IBL who acquired All Over Press in 2015. TT say: ‘The picture segment of the TT News Agency is growing, and will through this acquisition be able to offer an even more comprehensive archive and service. The very best Swedish and foreign picture…

The 2018 stock photo visual trend forecasts predicting what buyers will want from the industry are starting to come in here at PAN. Scott Braut, Head of Content at Adobe has this:   ‘We’ve been tracking the visual conversation around the world — from shows and galleries, to brand campaigns, and…

Masterfile in Toronto are now distributing the image collection through Mauritius Images for Europe. – excludes Italy  …

The UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards in association with Shutterstock have announced this year’s panel of judges. The Chair of the panel is Paul Jarrett, a lifelong servant of the news industry spending over forty years working for news agencies and newspapers and now the Secretary of the Wire Photo…

Contrary to reports online and general gossip PhotoArchiveNews.com can report Silverhub Media are alive and well. A little late filing of the agency’s accounts at Companies House had the rumour mills grinding …the accounts will be filed this week and PAN spoke briefly with Nick Evans-Lombe from Silverhub this morning who pointed…

Here at PAN we love an inside-agency photo and this week we managed to obtain this set from inside the new London offices of celebrity photo agency Splash News. The new office building is based in Shoreditch …the arty area of London not far from hip Hoxton, so the Splash…

Getty Images has just appointed Pamela Woehrle as Senior Vice President of Global Sales responsible for driving revenue across the company’s 250 million assets that serve nearly 1M customers annually. They say: ‘Woehrle joins Getty Images from IBM, where she has had an illustrious and lengthy career spanning 33 years, most…

Royalty-free photo library 123RF has acquired web-based vector graphics editor Vectr The purchase is part of a further announcement from 123RF owner the Inmagine Group who also acquired Story & Heart, a filmmaker academy and video licensing platform. “These latest acquisitions help Inmagine Group further our mission of empowering creative…

PAN reader Charles Swan of London media law firm Swan Turton sent us this report on a recent case. A recent judgment in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), in an infringement case concerning a photograph of Dylan Thomas used without permission for 17 days on a holiday cottages website,…

Today we are editing a press print collection via our Press Photo History Project. If you would like your photo collection edited for gems here’s more PPHP Photo Services…

Here’s a quick round up for other news we have been sent this week …and what do you think of the possible new PAN site logo above? Answers to [email protected] or the comments section below….thanks. • World Press Photo: Magdalena Herrera, Director of Photography Geo France, will be chair of…

A few decades ago wet-plate collodion might have been considered an obsolete Victorian process. With the increased prevalence of digital photography has come a resurgence of interest in film and early wet-process methods of image capture including collodion – and this new exhibition by Perth Museum & Art Gallery in Scotland…

A photo by Press Association photographer Joe Giddens has inspired Billy Bragg’s new single, ‘Saffiyah Smiles’.  The iconic image (above) of Birmingham activist Saffiyah Khan facing down English Defence League leader Ian Crossland inspired a single from Billy Bragg’s new album, ‘Bridges not Walls’, out now.  Joe captured the moment – which quickly…

From Dave Ofield – ex-picture editor of the Evening Standard and currently Picture Editors Guild member :  Former Evening Standard and Evening News deputy picture editor David Theobald has died after a long illness aged 70, “Theo”as he was affectionately known from Dulwich,London started his career aged 15 as a messenger…

London based footage agency Kinolibrary are now representing the archives of Transatlantic Films for licensing. ‘From exclusive interviews at home with Marc Bolan and Rod Stewart, to travelling the world with Placido Domingo, Transatlantic revealed new insights into well-known personalities of the 20th century. They followed Norman Mailer on the mayoral…