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Picture Researcher Amanda Russell has been awarded a National Award from the charity Brake for 20mph volunteering. She began 20’s Plenty for Faversham and the town now has the first 20mph town-wide scheme in Kent. Great work! 20’s Plenty For Us say: Amanda Russell began 20’s Plenty for Faversham in…

Transworld Feature Syndicate is a photo agency credit we see regularly on photo print verso’s on our archive edits – but have very little information. The New York-based Transworld Feature Syndicate Inc. was formed in 1950 by Ida Landau, before later being run by her son Albert after ill health…

About this Event Responding to questions on the increasing need to find new ways to sustain oneself in the face of current challenges such as the fight for press freedom, commercialisation of editorial images and staying safe, the Photojournalism Hub aims to provide a platform in which photojournalists meet to…

German stock photo library imageBroker are now offering a decent selection ready-to-go editorial features on their site. T/c’s – you must license images from their library to run with the free text.…

In London, The Cinema Museum – which used to be part of the The Ronald Grant Archive not seeing the library site anymore!? – is seeking for cash for survival. PAN received this email: Hello. I hope you are well wherever you are. I hope you don’t mind me writing to…

A PAN EXCLUSIVE Globe Photos, one of the oldest and most complete editorial photo archives in the world, has been sold.Klaus Moeller and partner Trey Watson alongside other investors made the purchase of the Globe Archive with several other collections including Frank Worth and Kim Goodwin in a recent bankruptcy…

Iconic Images in London are now representing the Norman Parkinson Archive – it’s an exclusive arrangement and Iconic are housing the complete analogue archive so if you want a specific image they will happily scan it. Good that. • View the Iconic Images listing on PAN…

The PAN copy of the book just arrived (above and below) and it’s a good one! ‘Through the Lens: A Life in News’ features 36 remarkable pictures from the career of news photographer Bernard “Bunny” Hess – the Chief Photographer at the Birmingham Evening Mail 1940’s – 1990’s and now…

Love this news just in – Elbie Lebrecht who sold her photo library business Lebrecht Music and Arts to Bridgeman Images in the summer of 2018 is now entertaining movie roles in Hollywood!Elbie appears in the film adaptation of her husband Norman Lebrecht’s book, The Song of Names – now…

Photo agency EyeEm has launched an initiative this week which offers adland creatives a lifeline during pandemic. EyeEm partnered WPP’s end-to-end Creative Commerce agency Geometry to support and empower the global creative industry adversely affected by the global Covide-19 pandemic. The new initiative titled #UpForCollab is a free-to-use platform open to the…

Congratulations to Michael Gottschalk this week on his appointment as new Head of Content at the dpa subsidiary picture alliance. The 39-year-old photo journalist and picture editor is responsible for the analysis, further development and implementation of the Frankfurt agency’s content strategy. Michaels experience as a photographer will be important…

Sad news in this morning. News photographer James Gray died on Saturday 7 November 2020. He was 81 years old and was living in Brandon Suffolk.‘Jimmy’ started his photo life at Keystone photo agency on Fleet Street and then staff at the Daily Mail as Royal photographer before going freelance.At…

What would ‘life’ be without photos? – bag one on the 14th here…

Almost there on this search – a few more names to go – let me know if you have not already sent images – thanks! This is a paid-for image search request on PAN from an advertising agency looking for images and illustrations to license as listed below. Scans, links…

The Imperial War Museum in the UK is embarking on five-year digitisation project to preserve Cold War era collections This unique selection of rarely-seen footage from the IWM film archive shows military operations and off-duty scenes from Aden, now part of Yemen. In 2020 IWM initiated Digital Futures, a five year…

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PAN spotted this great shoot story by music and arts photo library ArenaPal with one of their represented photographers – Sheila Burnett – which we are able to re run for you here: Sheila Burnett on photographing 80’s rock presenter Paula Yates: It’s 1982, I’m a freelance photographer but still…