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The BBC have a great new series – available on iPlayer – Age of the Image. In episode 4 James Fox explores how the image has become both more powerful and less trusted than ever before. Images increasingly surround us – on our phones, on billboards and in our homes.…

Here’s a fantastic new initiative to help photojournalism and documentary students studying at the University of Gloucestershire learn how photo agencies work – their own photo agency Pathos Images. Paul Roberts the Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the Uni told PAN: “We officially launch…

Here’s a great opportunity for aspiring film makes in the UK – Netflix has announced a brand new Documentary Talent Fund to support emerging filmmakers! The opportunity will be open to everyone from all around the UK with a story to tell and will give ten filmmakers, and their teams,…

Facebook News, a destination within the Facebook app that features news from hundreds of leading national, local and lifestyle outlets launched in the UK this week. They say: ‘The product puts original journalism in front of new audiences and provides publishers with more advertising and subscription opportunities to build sustainable…

VisitBritain’s Marketing Production Services Framework is now live on Delta eProcurement platform. It was advertised in the Official EU Journal and the UK’s Contracts Finder platform on 29 December 2020. The purpose of this tender is to establish a multi-supplier framework of up to 190 creatives in 8 Lots, made…

Dreamstime is a photo agency that doesn’t not talk about itself too much …they just let others talk about a range of subjects introducing readers to the diverse range of contemporary stock photography on offer from their contributors. This refreshing approach allows for some very interesting blog articles from Passion…

The World Economic Forum has partnered with Reuters to help distribute photo and video content from the The Davos Agenda, being held 25-29 January – a virtual event. The content will be available on Reuters Connect  – The partnership with Reuters introduces the exclusive hosting of video, audio, text and…

AP photographer Nick Ut, who retired in 2017 after a 51-year career with The Associated Press, today received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. He is the first journalist to receive the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the…

Over the last twenty years the daily news photo feed from the european pressphoto agency (epa) has been distributed exclusively by dpa and then Shutterstock. That’s all changing. epa has launched Jan 15) it’s international news photo and video service directly in Germany.They say: ‘The German news market, one of…

We wish more photo agencies would put this info out – especially the editorial agencies …let me know if your agency is sharing usage data – [email protected] EyeEm say: When it comes to commercial images, 2020 was all about people and their lives. Our image buyers have been searching for…

Historic England has released a new batch of digitised images from the John Laing Photographic Collection they look after. The 21-month digital archiving was project supported by the John Laing Charitable Trust. Take a look. • Collection Details: John Laing was a company that profoundly shaped post-war Britain. It constructed…

The fantastic photo collection work continues at celebrity photo archive specialist MediaPunch who this week announced they are now digitising and representing the celebrity photo collection of Hollywood photographer Ralph Dominguez. This exclusive 10-year deal will see the agency digitise celebrity content from Ralph’s thirty year photo career which started…

Here at PAN we are always looking at the reverse of brand packaging when we are out and about – just checking where a stock photo came from. Often we find the biggest brands license imagery from an independent specialist subject photo library rather than the ‘bigs’.One reason, and the…

Shutterstock Founder and current Executive Chairman Jon Oringer has moved from New York City to Miami, Florida to start helping other entrepreneurs build their businesses. He is doing this with the help of a team of partners and a brand new company called Pareto Holdings.The move and new business even…

This is a paid for search request from a UK business looking to use images for social media and customer mail shots. If you hold the copyright or can suggest who may please email [email protected] and I’ll put you in touch with the business. PAN reader Laura Ronchi sent us…