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The Big Pictures office door Clerkenwell, London. THe guardian.co.uk reports this morning : ….’Darryn Lyons, the self-styled Mr Paparazzi, has acquired the assets to his celebrity photo agency, Big Pictures, which was put into administration after running into financial difficulties… …He has emerged as a shareholder in BPGG Limited which…
UPDATED: 9 Nov ‘Axiom Photographic Agency Limited ceased trading on September 20, 2012, and was subsequently placed into Voluntary Liquidation at a meeting of the shareholders on October 23, 2012 due to its inability to meet its obligations to creditors. The Liquidator subsequently accepted an offer presented by Design Pics…
The 21st October will mark Sir Georg Solti’s centenary. One of the most influential conductors of the 20th Century, Hungarian born Solti appeared with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London before taking up the post of music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1967 – a position he…
Stock photo agency Shutterstock surprised the market yesterday raising keen interest in it’s shares. Reuters reports: ‘Shutterstock Inc soared 34 percent in its market debut, valuing the company at more than 436 million pounds, as investors bet on strong demand for the company’s stock images from multimedia customers, especially online.’….…
Photo library The Image Works are online with a new photo selection – ‘Day of the Dead’. Day of the Dead is a holiday that focuses on remembering friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico, where it is a national holiday. Click on the…
©Phil Coomes/BBC PhotoArchiveNews.com reader BBC online picture editor Phil Coomes tweeted this photo yesterday – we asked Phil if we could use it as it shows the new BBC Newsroom at Broadcasting House – behind Senator John McCain 😉 Follow Phil: @philcoomes…
Press photographer and owner of photo agency London News Pictures (LNP) Stephen Simpson has just finished covering the UK political conferences and posted his favourite pics on his blog – here: Political Conferences 2012…
New York based historical image library The Granger Collection has launched a tablet-friendly version of its website, that allows picture professionals to view and navigate the collection more easily on tablet computers. The refined layout and features of the fully functional tablet-friendly site, including larger buttons and links, have been…
SNTV, the joint venture between IMG Media and The Associated Press, has announced it will open a new bureau in Rio de Janeiro. The sports video news agency will locate its new bureau at AP’s office, as the city readies itself for the 2016 Summer Games, a major event in…
BBC FOUR has commissioned a 20-part series called ‘Britain on Film’ that will use archive footage from over 500 Rank Organisation cinema documentary films to give modern audiences a new visual perspective on the 1960s. ITN Source, the footage licensing division of ITN, is supplying ten hours of archive to…
BBC Worldwide has extended its international TV distribution agreement for the Virgin London Marathon, which was set to expire in 2015, ahead of Sportel Monaco 2012. The deal will see BBC Worldwide distribute coverage of the event for a further three years, up to and including the 2018 event. The…
This in from Picture Researcher David McLoughlin who is relocating to America. A UK picture and film researcher with 30 years of wide ranging experience in picture,film and document research, an honours degree and a true passion for history in all its forms, is looking to relocate to the USA…
Middlesex UK based freelance picture researcher Susie Prescott has just completed a revamp of her business website and updated her listing on our Find A Picture Researcher page. She told PAN yesterday: “My website is pretty much together. I have been working on it over the past few weeks –…
huffingtonpost.com reports: Sarah Palin Calls Associated Press ‘Absolute Jerks’ Over Mitt Romney Photo (VIDEO) ‘Appearing Thursday on Fox News, Sarah Palin expressed outrage at the mainstream media over the Associated Press’s decision to run an unflattering photo of Mitt Romney on Monday.’ … … And Associated Press, they’re jerks for…
Congratulations to Jane Sherwood who has been appointed Picture Editor of the Sunday Express Newspaper. Jane takes over from Terry Evans who retired last month after 39 years at the paper. Her picture industry career started 21 years ago as a receptionist at Rex Features and also worked for Capital…
Muji say: A conductive material is interwoven into the thumb, forefinger and third finger so that these gloves will make light work of touchscreen technology whatever the weather. Available in five different colours, these unisex wool gloves will seamlessly work on iPads, iPhones and all touchscreen phones. Price: £12.95 Touchscreen…
UK based photo agency Eyevine are ‘live/auto updating‘ images from the New York Times Historical Archive ( NYTHA is also a keyword ) Eyevine say: “How many images are there? We don’t know. The best guess is five million to six million prints and contact sheets and 300,000 sacks of…
“How many of you think content is more valuable than distribution? How about the other way around? It’s an age old debate. What’s really the difference? Audience. One has an audience- the other owns it. You need to be in the audience business and that’s what I’m going to talk…
