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The day Macca visited the archive in 1968. Not much of a caption that relates to the staff in the photos, or the reason for his visit however…more photos on our Press Photo History project…

PPHP reader, Ex fleet street photographer Peter Smith sent these images after he caught up with Ex PA and AP photographer Adam Butler now living in Thailand. View images and more on our PressPhotoHistory project now:…

Head hunter ceremony, Arundi village, Sepik District, Papua New Guinea 1985.  ©Göran Burenhult / The Image Works The Image Works has announced the addition of the Göran Burenhult collection to their archive. The collection consists of over 50,000 photographs focusing on archaeology, anthropology, culture, heritage, nature and travel.  Göran Burenhult, Ph. D.…

Mary Evans‘ photographer Mike St. Maur Sheil has had his image of  the Thiepval Memorial in the Somme area of France chosen by the Royal Mail to be included in  their commemorative series of stamps entitled “The Great War 1916”.  His exhibition “Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace – Somme 100”…

Miss Black & Beautiful with fellow contestants, London, 1970s. © Raphael Albert/Autograph ABP The first major exhibition of photographs by the late Raphael Albert will open at Autograph ABP next week. Albert was a cultural promoter and photographer of black beauty pageants in west London from the late 1960s to the 1980s. The…

A new photo competition and award called The Royal Rota Photography Competition from the News Media Association has its first winner – congrats to London Evening Standard photographer Jeremy Selwyn for his shot above of the Duchess of Cambridge at a City firm’s charity day. As well as scooping the…

First posted 24 June, the morning of the UK Leave result: With many UK photo libraries and agencies benefiting from EU cultural partnerships both in staff and grant funding will the Leave vote in the UK halt existing projects and business relationships? PhotoArchiveNews.com emailed a few photo library owners early…

Getty Images is now licensing the archive and current photos from American entertainment photographer Patrick McMullan. This is an exclusive arrangement …They say “The new editorial partnership sees McMullan’s renowned archival imagery, as well as all future work, made available to Getty Images’ customers in almost 200 countries. McMullan, a…

New York based premium RM stock photo agency AUGUST are online this week with a brand new website – click above for a visit – They say: ” It is completely revamped with a much more user friendly and visual interface.”…

Girl Punks in Stockport, 1983 © Shirley Baker Estate Courtesy of Shirley Baker Estate / Mary Evans Picture Library The Photographer’s Gallery is hosting a Punk Weekender (June 23rd – 25th) which includes photo exhibitions, a live gig by The Raincoats, talks, events and a Derek Jarman film. Full details here. ©…

UPDATED: this in from a PAN reader “Hi Will, I believe photo press was acquired by London news service /sport and general then acquired by empics then acquired by PA (Press Association)” The PA Images are checking their records – back with more when we have it. UPDATED 10 July…

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Adobe started providing stock photos directly to their creative cloud users in 2014 with the purchase of photo library Fotolia they have now added ‘approximately’ 100,000 hand-selected images to this offer with the launch of The Premium Collection. The collection includes a curated selection of their current stock photos by…

Martin Skultety, Managing Director of StockFood ‘staying on at the helm’ – photo supplied Munich-based StockFood has a new owner – one of Germany’s largest media groups – Hubert Burda Media. One change at the agency will be Pete A. Eising the founder of the agency who is leaving the…

above – A happy Kim Webb – photo supplied Congratulations to Kim Webb on winning Picture Editor of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editor’s Rising Star Award this month. Kim won the award for her work as Picture Director of Fabulous Magazine, The Sun’s Sunday magazine. In…