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We have been on Instagram for a while now to test the water and just starting to update the feed with some news items and photos from our industry travels…its all about photos after all! Here PhotoArchiveNews…

Closes 8 December – thats tomorrow….     The UK Picture Editors Guild Awards in association with Shutterstock have been joined by industry giant Fujifilm to recognise young talent in a new award category ‘Student Photographer of the Year’. The challenge set to students is to show –  with five images –  their…

  Great start to the week here with a brand new industry partnership announced late last night –  The Mega Agency will now be distributing Mirrorpix photo content. The new distribution partnership will see Mega join Mirrorpix’s distribution network outside of the UK, syndicating live news content from titles such as the Daily Mirror,…

Photographer and PAN reader Cinzia D’Ambrosi is seeking funding for her latest humanitarian photo project Hate Hurts a documentary photographic project that exposes violence towards refugees and asylum seekers and the factors that contribute to its use. The purpose of the Hate Hurts project is to bring a wider perspective to the issue…

Getty Images are busy editing and uploading what’s left of the archive of photographer Jacques Lowe. Lowe began his photographic career in New York City – first as assistant to Arnold Newman, then making a name for himself in his own right as he freelanced for magazines. In 1960 he was…

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,…