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CEO and founder at Blend Images Rick Leckrone has resigned, effective immediately. Sarah Fix, Creative Vice President has been named CEO by Blend’s LLC Managers. Leckrone said, “It has been an enormous privilege to have led Blend Images for over a decade. I am extremely proud of the team we’ve…

  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 understanding of the course they are on.…

A number of photo libraries benefit from digital grants at Europeana – will be interesting to hear what the public think about the platform now it has had a few years to grow. Europeana gives access to over 53 million items including image, text, sound, video and 3D material from…

Aimed at photographers but a good catch up for photo agencies this latest guide from photographer website provider…

Founded with the aim of enabling emerging photographers to break into the industry, Getty Images Creative Bursary asks photographers to submit a project proposal and visual brief, in support of their creative idea. Applicants have complete creative freedom and can submit ideas across the photography spectrum, from ground-breaking conceptual shoots,…

UK based Science Photo Library -SPL- have introduced Nan Halperin as their new Business Development Manager for North America. They say: ‘Nan will focus on building strong relationships across North America and is looking forward to working with new clients to introduce them to SPL’s unique content. Nan brings a breadth of knowledge and…

News UK have run a short interview with their Sunday Times picture editor Ray Wells where he reveals his favourite iconic Sunday Times image and how he chooses a front page picture HERE…

Over at our Press Photo History project we are on the lookout for footage of Fleet Street photo agencies or newspaper photographic departments. The PPHP has been researching and publishing memories and images from photo agency, here are a couple – Central Press lunch break 1960’s and A Day In…

A new photo agency called GLIX has launched in Hungary  – with a mission ‘to put Hungary into the international photo map’. Alongside a comprehensive photo database of Hungarian sights and cities, landscape and nature GLIX offer a complete photo agency package – in there are 40 million pictures both Editorial…

Photo agency Noor is partnering documentary news agency Upfront to launch a ‘new innovative platform that will produce short & long feature films, series and documentaries’ – Noor Film. They say: Upfront founder Lucas Menget states about the new collaboration: “NOOR photojournalists, filmmakers and authors are our new sentinels. For years, they have…

Great news into the PAN office yesterday from David Leigh at The Mega Agency who was positively beaming when he called to deliver this update late last night from Miami – Mega Agency photographer Ian Lawrence has been praised by the Metropolitan Police for the vital role he played in putting…

As Political news and comment seem to be top of the news agenda currently PAN spotted this promo from US based photo and footage library Global Image Works showing the depth of their stills library  – and below from their footage library – they even do the research for you…

This from New York based photo agency The Image Works: Wesley Bocxe, a long time contributor to The Image Works, was seriously injured in the Mexico City earthquake. Tragically, his wife Esguerra was killed. Their daughter Amara, age five, was at school and was unharmed. Wesley currently remains in hospital…

Stock photo platform Alamy has launched a Spanish language version of it’s customer website. Italian, French and Portuguese-speaking countries scheduled to launch at a ‘later date’. James Hall, International Lead at Alamy, commented on the launch: “We are delighted to be launching our Spanish website, the first of four new…

Fifty war correspondents gathered in Bayeux on October 6th and 7th to debate and award trophies in the following categories: photo, print, radio, television, grand format television, young reporter (print) and video image. Three honorary awards have been attributed: the Regional prize for students and trainees of Normandy (television), the…

Mega Agency CEO Tom Tramborg is on the programme at the DMLA Conference this year (22-24 oct) where he will be among some of the leading lights from the digital media world on an open panel discussing News from the Editorial Market. The panel description reads: ‘While the big stock…

Go see this feast of 150 paparazzi images from the photographers and stars of the Dolce Vita to the Present Day’ at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, will be on show from 13 September to 7 January – Curated by Walter Guadagnini and Francesco Zanot, They say: In…

PPHP: Black Star London…