Austral International Press Agency and Scope Features based in Sydney, Australia have announced that the two agencies will be merging as of May 1, 2014 with the formation of australscope Pty Ltd. Austral and Scope, founded in 1954 and 1977 respectively, are major licensors of editorial photography in Celebrity, Royalty,…
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UK based stock photo library Garden World Images GWI has announced a distribution partnership with Flora Press of Germany, …’over the coming months we will be uploading many more of the iconic images they are known for.’ View the first uploads here…
The BBC reports: ‘Rock star Paul Weller has won £10,000 for his children after their pictures were “plastered” on the Mail Online.’…. …Seven paparazzi photos were published in October 2012 under the headline “A family day out: Paul Weller takes wife Hannah and his twin sons out for a spot…
Four generations of photographers – all named Byrd Williams – documented more than 100 years of North Texas history with their work. Now, UNT Libraries has acquired their collection, consisting of over 10,000 prints and 300,000 negatives. The materials include commercial and studio photography, western landscapes, documentary studies, and fine…
Updated: April 16 The Columbus Dispatch website reports on a videographer/remote-controlled airplane hobbyist being charged for flying his camera drone over a traffic accident: ‘Kele Stanley has been charged with a felony because officials say he refused to land the camera-equipped drone that he had been guiding over a traffic…
↑ the new studio The Matrix Media Group has relocated to North London in order to open a new photographic studio at: Chocolate Factory Studios Coburg Road London, N22 6UJ (nearest tube Wood Green) Matrix spokesman Trevor Adams told PhotoArchiveNews.com “It was a hard decision for us to move out…
↑ Brad and staff at MILK Digital prepare prints for the exhibition – all photos © Brad Elterman Celebrity photographer and ex photo agency owner Brad Elterman has an exhibition of his most famous photos opening this month. Dog Dance is on at: MILK Gallery APRIL 23 – MAY 18,…
Niedringhaus Anja – AP photo AP: The funeral of Associated Press photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus will take place on Saturday, April 12, at Corvey Abbey, a Benedictine monastery near her birthplace in Hoexter, Germany. Niedringhaus was killed by an Afghan policeman in an attack on April 4, which seriously wounded veteran…
Another smashing photo-set book has just rolled off the press at Café Royal Books. ‘Annual General Meeting’ from the photo files of photographer David Levenson. spec: 28 pages 14cm x 20cm b/w digital Edition of 200 £5.00 (+ PP £2.50) Get your copy here we have!…
Stewart Boyd dies aged 73 – Picture editor & founding father of UK Picture Editors’ Guild – Obituary
Photo supplied – Picture Editors’ Guild One of the founding fathers of the UK Picture Editors’ Guild, and its first chairman, Stewart Boyd, has died in Edinburgh after a long illness. He was 73. For 20 years he was picture editor of The Scotsman. He joined the Edinburgh based paper…
Updated: 14/11/2014: Rhonda died on the 6 November – full announcement here Rhonda Wilson MBE 17 August 1953 – 6 November 2014 This in from PAN reader- Photographer and Picture Editor Tom Broadbent: Hi Will, A friend of mine, in fact my old tutor from university has been ill for…
↑ Kerim Okten photo by Aybige Mert via epa Sad new just in from the epa – European Pressphoto Agency: 10th April, 2014 – epa’s acclaimed photographer and beloved colleague Kerim Okten has died in a motorbike accident in Turkey today. Kerim Okten was born in Istanbul in 1972. He…
↑ David and his Hampton Court Half Marathon medal – 23rd Feb ↑ David training – 20-mile Marathon training run in Hyde Park on 23rd March PAN reader David Hayes, Sales Executive for Splash News/Corbis, is running his first London Marathon on Sunday. His miles will help the charity Parkinson’s…
↑ Paul ‘Just getting some last minute tips..’ looking far too relaxed! PAN reader Paul Langan, Senior Picture Researcher at the Carlton Publishing Group will be taking part in the London Marathon this weekend – Sunday 13th April. Paul told PhotoArchivenews.com this week: “Hi Will I’m running in my first…
UPDATE: Congratulations to Mark Braund, who completed Sunday’s London Marathon in 4 hours and 47 minutes to raise money for Anthony Nolan, the charity which arranges stem cell transplants for people suffering from life-threatening blood cancers. Blackheath-based Mary Evans Picture Library is delighted, if a little concerned, to announce that…
ArcticPhoto, A stock photo library specialising in the Polar Regions with 15,000 images searchable online have a new address as flyer above – From 14 April 2014…
This in from Berlin based photo agency Favorite Picture: Three-time Olympic champion Maria Höfl-Riesch just retired from her professional sports career. The famous German ski star collected a huge number of medals and victories achieving everything she could hope for when she started skiing at the age of three. Simon…
FotoDocument will commission and curate ten new photo essays based on the ten sustainability principles of One Planet Living, adopted by the city of Brighton & Hove. The commissions will result in ten exciting new public exhibitions simultaneously installed in ten key public spaces around the city as an arts…