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‘We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the 19th Annual PACA Conference! We’re returning to New York City, one of the United States’ most vibrant, artistic, and populous cities. The City That Never Sleeps is the perfect setting for PACA, the Digital Media Licensing Association, in our…

With nearly 100 locations every year that attract around 3 million visitors, World Press Photo is pleased to announce that the debut location of its 2014 exhibition tour, at De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, attracted more than 75.000 visitors, a record number for the location. Michiel Munneke, managing director World…

ITN Source, the footage licensing division of UK news and multimedia content provider ITN will now be directly offering clients Still images from Rex Features to back up news clip requests. Full story on FootageNews.com…

Lebrecht Photo Library is delighted to invite you to the first in a series of presentations curated in co-operation with the Ben-Uri Gallery, St Johns Wood, London. Military historian, Sanjoy Mukherjee-Richardson, will take you through life in the trenches and the wider context of World War I. The talk will…

↑ Magnum Members at the 67th Annual General Meeting © Martin Fuchs / Magnum Photos Magnum Photos held their 2014 AGM in New York City last week. The first day of proceedings was held at the International Center of Photography. New photographer members, associates and nominees announced are: Moises Saman…

‘Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989. That was 20 years ago, he was just 24 years of age. The Ian Parry Scholarship was created by Aidan Sullivan, then picture editor and Ian’s friends and family in…

This in from a TV production company at 13:30, going to air in an hour…. not sure if anyone came forward on this – but still worth dropping them a line as the image may have been used. Hi Will, I have attached a photograph of the sinking of the…

Food stock photo library The Picture Pantry are online with a brand new website this week. The new site is on-trend with an evolving-scrolling home page showing off some great stock imagery. Library owner Craig Holmes told PAN: ‘We went live at about 12.23am this morning…it looks very pretty, although…

The Museum Of New Zealand has released 30,000 images into the public domain, 17,000 of which are free to use commercially. They say: …’But even better are the 17,000 images that downloadable for any use, any use at all. These images have no known copyright restrictions. Again it would be…

A nifty initiative here from one of the UK’s most proactive photo library owners Gwyn Headley MD at fotoLibra who is hoping other image collections will follow. Hello Will This blog posting may interest you: fotoLibra Obstructs Poachers Many cameras and smartphones now come equipped with a GPS sensor which…

Cafe Royal Books are looking for someone to document, photographically, all pages from all previous Café Royal publications, for an online publicly accessible archive. Owner Craig Atkinson says: ‘The person will also embed the publication details into the images meta data using Lightroom, and create a (re-orderable by date, author,…

Spotted this and just had to post it! Spice up your photo library with this guaiac wood and patchouli Library scented candle from Birch and Brook London. …currently ‘Out Of Stock’ • UPDATE – a couple more scent suggestions from PAN readers ↓ Hi Will Your posting about the scented…

‘Orange Street Photography Gallery is pleased to announce the arrival of an amazing exhibition by fleet street photographer Bill Orchard.’ The display shows Bill’s work from the 1960’s – 1970’s, capturing stunning images from the world of music and other iconic figures. The exhibition is in aid of Macmillan Cancer…