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New request on the Press Photo History Project now… Dear Will, I came across your website today whilst searching for the photographers S.A Chandler & Son, originally based in Southampton. I am looking to see if an archive of this photographers photos exists? Any information you have would be greatly…

Dear Will, Thank you for speaking with me on the phone just now. Trinity House are looking to track down the current owners of some photos we’ve had in our library for a long time, with a view to licensing them for use in a book. The main agency is…

Hello Will I was pointed in your direction by Suzy from the PA. I am not sure if you can help, I would love to discover more of my Grandadfathers pictures – not sure if his negs are sitting in an archive somewhere! Attached is his image of Richard Burton…

– Vic Singh; his listing on a web sight is without any phone number-Have written many e-mail s to him but as yet nothing in return-He did live in Chelsea and was in operation and still was working some few years ago Well known in the industry with a great…

View a fresh photo feature licensed through London based photo agency Panos Pictures from photographer Kieran Dodds who visited Carron Valley Forest between Edinburgh and Glasgow, where a life-size replica of a medieval fortified Scottish village is home to an unlikely group of people dedicated to educating others about their…

Good article here – Guardian online reports: The corrections column co-editor on… the challenge of writing picture captions …Mistakes sometimes happen because the subeditor writing a caption is working from sketchy information provided by the photographer, many of whom loathe the job of adding caption material, according to the Guardian’s…

Magnum have launched a great new feature on their blog pages – Ask Magnum. ‘A few weeks ago, we solicited your questions for Bruce Gilden on Facebook and Twitter. We picked a handful that we thought would spark some discussion and sat down with Bruce at the kitchen table of…

Daily News Los Angeles reports: Judge sets trial date in paparazzo vs. Lindsay Lohan ….’Grigor Balyan alleges Lohan’s driver, Paola Demara, ran into him in Hollywood two years ago as he was taking photographs of the actress. He is claiming medical expenses of about $16,500’….. full article here dailynews.com…

Asian stock photography site Photokore is offering its members a special offer during the month of August…. more on AboutTheImage.com now…

San Francisco based image technology company Stipple, has announced the birth of the Intelligent Image. Anyone can now create Intelligent Images by using Stipple’s new, social image community, available today in public beta. This comprehensive technology platform promises to solve the fundamental problems surrounding web images — attribution, search, and…

UK based specialist photo library Writer Pictures are online with their latest tear sheets…

click to preview: 160 pages, 123 classic pictures, available from 11 August PPL Photo Agency boss Barry Pickthall has completed a book to be released on 11 August, He told PhotoArchiveNews.com “The book is the result of PPL working for the past 18 months to preserve the Eileen Ramsay marine…

The BBC reports: ‘A US tech journalist was cut off from his entire digital life by attackers who tricked Apple support into re-setting his iCloud account.’ – full reports here bbc.co.uk And here is the journalists report: Yes, I was hacked. Hard. Thanks to Pan reader Lee for flagging this…

Online photo sharing/stock photo site Snapixel will close on August 31st – a report posted on the home page reads: ‘We will be shutting down the Snapixel service on August 31st, 2012. Please be sure to back up your photos as we will be no longer offer the portfolio or…