Photo agency Jed Root are online this week with a brand new website – take a look…

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↑ GENESIS REGIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR Winner – Charles McQuillan Caption: 13/4/2014 Competitors came from all over came from all over Northern Ireland as well as the Republic of Ireland, England, Scotland and Germany and the US to compete in the wacky race at Foymore Lodge, Portadown. Professional athletes,…
Vogue has announced that its first monthly digital replica edition built especially for the iPhone is available with the March 2015 edition, on sale now. A pdf digital replica edition of Vogue was available previously for mobile. They say: Fully interactive and easy to use with bonus video and audio…
© Jonathan Buckmaster/Fleet St Photo A MUST SEE here – Back for a second time the Fleet Street Photo exhibition is open and on the walls of London’s finest coffee shop the Fleet Street Press Cafe. The photography on show will feature a revolving exhibition of work from UK’s finest…
Click it to view it ↑ Spain based age fotostock have released a smart new look website this week. The site was designed by their in-house web designers and programmers in direct response customer demand for an attractive website where themes, categories, collections and offers are easy to find. Along…
A new collaboration between stock photo libraries 500px and Shestock gives female photographers new distribution channels for showcasing women-centric images of everyday life. They say: The images of everyday women are taken exclusively by Shestock’s female photographer base. The women-centric foundation helps equalize the representation of females in the photography…
French photographic agency Leemage, specialising in Art and History, has acquired Opale a photo agency specialising in portraits of writers, playwrights and the literary world in general. Opale, based in Paris, has been supplying writer portraits to the press and publishers since 1995. The archive, which includes about 36 000…
↑ Oswald Schwirtz ©Oswald Schwirtz – Judging for the 2015 Photo Contest starts this Sunday World Press Photo has announced Oswald Schwirtz (NL) as the new chairman of its Supervisory Board. He succeeds Pieter Broertjes who had served as the board’s chairman since 2007. They say: Oswald Schwirtz (52) is…
**we had a note from Getty Images to say they wanted this video “removed from all external sites”** Getty Images held their annual in-agency photographers award evening this week, watch above for interviews with Getty photographers on what makes an award winning photograph. Photographer Peter Macdiarmid won Getty Images European…
Great news if you are subbed up to Netflix, you can now watch ‘Smash His Camera’ They say: While profiling the controversial life and career of pioneering paparazzo Ron Galella, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Leon Gast raises intriguing questions about the freedom of the press, the right to privacy and our…
↑ supplying editorial content to the media? …this is worth a watch – click it ‘Over the past few months, the BBC’s Future of News project has been trying to identify some of the big trends likely to impact on news and ask what audiences will want over the next…
Updated 6 March Congrats to two lucky PAN readers who’s names were pulled out the hat to win a copy of the Getty Images book Year in Focus. Jaime Pedregosa a picture researcher based in Barcelona, Spain who tweeted the arrival of his copy – above and Barbara Mehrl a…
Snapchat – the quick chat messenger board app – have launched a new News service for users. … ‘Snapchat Discover’ is a new way to explore Stories from different editorial teams. Full report and watch the video on FootageNews.com…
In January 2014 we published a selection of agency Twitter follower numbers – here’s how they stood then: Jan 29 2014 – Photo agency Magnum have reached the half a million followers mark on Twitter – by comparison Getty Images have 67K followers, Corbis 16k, VII 22k, Reuters Pictures 70k…
spotted on the Shortlist Media site PICTURE RESEARCHER, SHORTLIST MEDIA Shortlist Media – publisher of the UK’s most popular ‘freemium’ magazines Stylist and ShortList – is looking for a highly organised Picture Researcher to join its award-winning editorial teams. This is a newly created role working across both titles, with…
spotted on the NewsUK careers site: The Times is looking for a sport picture editor to join its award-winning sport team, working across all publishing platforms. As sport picture editor of The Times, you will be responsible for creating outstanding picture packages for the paper, tablet, smartphone and web. You…
PhotoArchiveNews.com reader Tom Broadbent picks up the story on his Blog: ‘I received the news yesterday that Bizarre magazine is closing after the next issue. Remarkably it has been running for 18 years, I spent seven years there as picture editor ( from 2004-2011) and it was an amazing experience.…
Getty Images has launch of a retrospective exhibition, Year in Focus 2014 – ’60 of the defining images that encapsulate the global news agenda and events of 2014′. They say: ‘In 2014, Getty Images’ award-winning photographers covered more than 16,000 news events, 28,000 sports events and 50,000 entertainment events, delivering…