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ITN Source has signed its first stock footage distribution agreement with North America-based agency Dissolve. Full details on our Footage News site now.…

The UK’s oldest photo licensing company Francis Frith has landed a great licensing deal with Ancestry.co.uk ‘the world’s largest online family history resource.’ PAN reader John Buck, owner of the Francis Frith collection told PhotoArchiveNews.com this morning: “We have granted Ancestry an exclusive licence to use Frith photos in the…

Photo: WENN’s CEO Lloyd Beiny and Admin Director Jackie Ashby celebrate the announcement of WENN’s acquisition of Cover Media. Celebrity and entertainment news agency WENN ‘has concluded arrangements’ to both acquire Cover Media and to launch a new business called Indulge House. WENN CEO Lloyd Beiny comments, “This is a…

Great new look at GettyImages.com this week, the mosaic photo selections make the most of a single home page showing off a wider selection of their ‘180M assets’ offering.…

View over 10 years of stock photo industry interviews with some of the most important people who still affect the industry, Alan Smith, owner at Topfoto was our first sitter in April 2004 …lots more in the planning…

Shutterstock reported on their Q2 results today – highlights are: Second quarter revenue increased 30% as compared to the second quarter of 2014 to $104.4 million; · ​Revenue per download increased 13% and paid downloads increased 14%; · Our user base expanded to approximately 1.3 million customers, up 25% versus…

akg-images the rights managed photo archive specialising in history, fine art and photography will have a new Managing Director at it’s London office from Friday August 21. Current Managing Director David Price-Hughes is leaving the archive ‘to pursue other business opportunities within the industry’ and Angelika Pirkl (above) who has…

Another Planet News photo search on our Press Photo History Project…

Congrats to Paul Brown (above in action) MD at Mary Evans Picture Library and Ardea who landed another of his personal photo assignments “Rabbit Island” on three UK national newspaper websites this week …scroll down for links to the those. Paul, just back from Japan, told PhotoArchiveNews.com: “Tucked away off…

Newsreel archive British Pathé has appointed BBC veteran Zoe Moore Business Development Manager with responsibility for clients in the UK, Europe and Asia. She will license footage from British Pathé’s collection of 85,000 films. Full details on our FootageNews.com site…

With $2.2 million in support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and in partnership with Artstor, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is offering 42 liberal arts colleges and universities the opportunity to join its Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Research. The Consortium intends to improve teaching and…

This in from a PPHP visitor – journalist Russell Hays – who is looking to clear copyrights on a motor industry book. He is currently clearing material with Mirrorpix, Topfoto, LAT and Fox Photos but needs help locating an agency called Tella or Brook Tella which operated during the 1930’s…

Photo: Mirror photographer Monte Fresco in the Azteca Stadium – 1970 World Cup tournament in Mexico. May 1970. Self portrait © Mirrorpix – click the image to view Monte’s images The Royal Mint is looking for the next face of the £20 note and Mirror newspaper photographer photographer Monte Fresco…

Ikon Images is now representing the work of artist Michael Frith best know for his work in The Times & Sunday Times as well as being exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery.…

Photo share-and-license platform 500px (founded in 2004) has secured $13M of fresh funding reportedly from China photo giant Visual China Group. 500px founder Evgeny Tchebotarev in a blog post about the news says: …”Now, with fresh funds in the bank, you can trust that the 500px Team has the Community…

Photo: Two smiling girls (aided by an old man) play skipping on a deserted Manchester street, strewn with toys and little children. An evocative view of 60s England with terraced housing, close-knit communities, the local cornershop and not a car in sight! Photograph by Shirley Baker Date: 1968 this in…