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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…

Part of the Dorchester Collection of hotels, 45 Park Lane is one of London’s most iconic 5-star luxury hotels which works well as a location for a set of fantastic celebrity prints curated by Box Galleries. Viewing now – FRIDAY 28 AUG TO MONDAY 12 OCT, 2020 – HERE ‘…

Update 1 Sept 2020 – this has launched – so finding misuse of image should be a whole lot easier for both photographers and photo agencies.More at Google here First published 19 August 2020 Best news of the week here – This has been in the pipeline for months but…

This Sunday’s edition of the Sunday Times newspaper in the UK will be the last for the news photo desk on the paper headed up for 31 years by Photo Editor Ray Wells. From what we hear the changes are due to a merging of The Times and Sunday Times…

Rcapital – owners of celebrity photo agency Splash News – have reached an agreement to buy UK local newspaper publisher Archant. UPDATED: Rcapital say: “We are incredibly pleased to have worked alongside Archant’s management team and KPMG to put forward a plan that will restructure finances and inject fresh capital…

Another great collection ready to license at Mary Evans London: Heinz Zinram was one of Britain’s leading industrial photographers in the 1950s and 1960s, and his photographs of manufacturing, business and industry reveal unexpected poise and drama. Dr Zinram’s story began in 1910 in Vienna where he was born, and…

A PAN Exclusive This week PAN heard PA Images Managing Director Stephen Munday had left the business …we followed this up direct with PA – this is what a PA Media Group spokesperson told us: “We are working through plans to integrate all of our commercial photography assets into a…

Reuters senior TV producer Ayat Basma on covering the explosion that shook Beirut to its core On The Debrief: She was bloody, lying on the ground, thinking ‘I don’t want to die.’ Then, ‘the adrenaline kicked in’ and she began filming the injured and the aftermath caused when 2,750 tons…