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Photo library Blend Images have released their first Royalty Free images… They say “Now ready for licensing, Blend Images just released a premier interiors and architecture collection, many images of which are available for Royalty Free licensing for the first time. These pictures deliver exclusive inside access to the world’s…

The Mega Agency will be launching with an archive of 30 million images after signing a global licensing agreement with Newscom, a multi-agency archive of digital images. Mega founder Kevin Smith (above) told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning that the deal with Newscom, which adds more than 50,000 new images and other…

Nice collection of promo goodies just arrived from LA this morning at the PhotoArchiveNews.com UK office …Thanks BEN…

Travel stock photo expert library 4Corners have uploaded a fresh photo edit from New Zealand. The images are a final edit from contributing photographer Justin Foulkes’ trip to New Zealand’s North Island took him around the Firth of Thames from Auckland to the Coromandel Peninsula, taking in Hahei Beach and…

Getty Images have been started looking through the millions of images available to them in the Bettmann archive – the fabulous historical photo collection which came to them via the VCG/Corbis deal. In our exclusive article with Craig Peters the Senior Vice President, Business Development, Content and Product at Getty…

500px are calling it Splash …’Select a color and size for your brush. Then, Splash paint on the canvas and see matching photos appear in your search results. Keep adding colors to see your results change, and adjust the category filter to see different images.’…

Launched in Beta in 2014 photo library Picfair have just launched for real with an updated to their website now offering three million contributors images. They say: “Since the day we launched just over two years ago, we’ve been working obsessively to reach photographers in every corner of the globe.…

The Mega Agency – launched via PAN in February – have made three new hires this week Paul Tetley, David Leigh and Karlo Pastrovic. Tetley, previously VP Global News and Entertainment at Corbis, will be Mega’s Chief Operations Officer (COO). Tetley first worked for Splash, and then Corbis, for 14…

Getty Images are ramping up their push to embrace the ‘consumer’ viewers of their content with the appointment this week of Steve Grimes to the newly created role of Managing Editor & Senior Vice President of Consumer Media. They say: “Steve will have editorial oversight of Getty Images’ new consumer…

Chris and Peter Whittle (above) who’s late father Brian founded UK based news agency Cavendish Press have launched their own agency this morning called Atlantic Images – a new transatlantic picture agency operating in the UK, USA and Canada. Chris Whittle told PAN: “Atlantic Images will work directly with high-profile individuals,…

Here at PAN we love our in-agency photos – arriving this week was a shot from Kent based photo agency Topfoto featuring the smile of Topfoto Partner and fotofringe London organiser Flora Nedelcu …modelling the 5th edition of the New European newspaper. Send your agency pics to [email protected]…

Sponsored by Splash As we look to upgrade our technology, Splash wants to ensure it works for our Contributors so we have put together a short survey to help us continue on the right path. This survey should take no longer than 5 minutes of your time but will help…

California based premium stock photo agency Erickson Stock has released half of its assignment quality image collection to a new royalty free pricing model today. They say: Formerly all rights-managed, this high-end collection of imagery has been long held by graphic designers and artists as the finest photography for stock…

UPDATED 9 Sept: Dear friends, Please join us on Monday for the fifth edition of Photo Scratch! Join us to see some brilliant work in progress photography projects, discuss and feed back, and have a catch up. Monday 12th September 6-9pm at Hotel Elephant Spare Street ( map here )…