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Here’s a great lump of news to kick off the week! Stills from one of the finest newsreel archives in the world are now represented by one of the leading specialists in licensing historical stills. Mary Evans Picture Library has announced it will represent the Time to Remember Stills Collection…

Paul Roberts, the ex Offside and PA sports photographer and now Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at University of Gloucestershire has uploaded the latest photography from the course. View the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at University of Gloucestershire 2020 graduate newspaper …on Issuu Paul told…

Bonhams London have an interesting item in their 13 Oct 2020 Entertainment Memorabilia sale 13:00 BST. Let PAN know if you attain the successful bid! Bonhams: THE BEATLES / IAIN MACMILLAN: THE HASSELBLAD 500C CAMERA USED BY IAIN MACMILLAN TO PHOTOGRAPH THE COVER IMAGE FOR THE BEATLES’ ABBEY ROAD ALBUM,1969,comprising a Hasselblad…

Every day we are connecting photo buyers with photo libraries and photo estates for licensing enquires and searches – here’s what’s happening this week: Pricing:Free to Newspaper and magazine Picture Desks.£250 for production agencies, ad agencies, companies and brands.£40 for pro photo researchers with a photo search budget.Gets you: the…

Launched this week ISOWAY is a new Belgian based editorial photo agency created by Daïna Le Lardic a photographer of the President of the European Parliament and Paul Marneff the founder and CEO of Isopix The new agency will be concentrating on photo and video assignments in Belgium, France and…

This in full from the NUJ: The National Union of Journalists and The British Press Photographers’ Association are calling on News UK to drop its rights-grabbing contract. The new contract, sent to regular contributors by the publisher of the Times and the Sun last week, strips photographers of almost all…

PAN spotted this interesting report by travel photojournalist and microstock observer Alex Rotenberg this week on what returns and performance his images are getting at stock photo libraries right now. We contacted Alamy for comment, view the response from the Commercial Director Alan Capel below the report. Alex’s post re…

Photographer of War from LevelK on Vimeo. We featured Jan Grarup’s book And Then There Was Silence in 2017, now you can watch him at work and home in this Boris B. Bertram film: Photographer of WarJan Grarup is a world famous war photographer (multiple World Press Photo award winner)…

PAN reader Jasmine Perry, the Picture Editor at Saga magazine, very kindly allowed us to share this video showing behind the scenes at her latest organised shoot (mostly outside with 2M spacing) at Dungeness in Kent for the September issue. Jasmine told PAN: “Here’s a behind the scenes look at…

UK sports photo agency Colorsport has announced that Stephen West and Tony Graham have joined the business as Sales Directors. Tony Graham has over 30 years of experience in the photographic industry with Getty Images, Reuters and Adobe, while Steve West has over two decades with Getty Images and Shutterstock.…

Serban Enache, the Owner & Co-founder CEO at photo agency Dreamstime, has celebrated the agency’s twentieth anniversary with a blog post mapping the journey through the stock photography industry over that time… Serban writes: Why Dreamstime? So it all started with the name. And a dream. Why have we chosen…

Taking place between 11 – 13 September, Four Corners will be holding a free conference exploring the cultural contribution of women refugee photographers who came to Britain after 1933. Presentations will cover photographers’ work across portraiture, reportage, social documentary and architectural photography, and how the European cultural approaches that they…

Congratulations to Alex Morris who just landed the UK’s busiest media position – heading up Future plc’s latest acquisition Barcroft Studios. They say: ‘Alex Morris, Chief Creative Officer of Future’s TV production label Barcroft Studios, will take over the day to day running of the award-winning factual production company.’ ‘Alex will also…

Interesting move here from newswire service AAP in Australia. Having gone non-profit they are now looking to raise $500,000 through crowdfunding. Earlier this year NewsCorp and Nine announced their intention to shut down AAP, but in June a group of philanthropists and impact investors stepped in to keep it alive.…

Celebrity Wot Not which was launched by celebrity photo agency Atlantic Images earlier this year has secured 100,000 subscibers to their YouTube channel. Good work people!…

Beverly Hills based Classic Images Stock Footage launched their new website this week. The library archives contain over 5000 titles, from the dawn of motion pictures in 1895 to the present. They say; We are proud to present to you our new website where you can browse through our library,…

The new platform offers these fast-photo-finding-features …• Archival A-Z• On This Day• Photographer portfolio page• Access to unseen original contact sheets They say: ‘The new website allows a deeper search through Iconic Images’ vast visual archive. While maintaining the important focus on the licensing of some of the worlds most loved and celebrated from the…

Celebrity photo agency The Mega Agency has announced an ‘exciting and unique sales opportunity for its loyal global contributor base through a brand new partnership with Getty Images.’ The deal will allow photographers contributing to Mega to select world rights when uploading non-exclusive content which will then be accessed by…