Stock footage agency StormStock has launched StormShots, a retail photo gallery featuring tornadoes, lightning, and other storms printed on art quality papers.“I’ve received many requests for our images as artwork since I founded StormStock in 1993,” said veteran filmmaker Martin Lisius. “The photos we feature at StormShots are basically ‘wow’…
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Reuters has expanding its user-generated content (UGC) offering to it’s Connect customers in EMEA, Latin America and Asia Pacific through a partnership with News Corp’s Storyful a social media intelligence and news agency.…
The finalist for the The Inaugural World Sports Photography Awards have been selected. The Images are grouped into 8 categories: Joy, Precision, Speed, Focus, Determination, Power, View, Celebration – view the images Winners will be announced at the end of May – not long now!…
Travel photographer Richard James Taylor is a contributing photographer to UK based photo agency 4Corners – they – put out a marketing email last week featuring one of Richards shots and titled it ‘Italian Hats’. Just fabulous marketing and photography! We’re rerunning the feature for you here in full –…
From the 1st June 2020 Shutterstock are updating the earnings structure for contributors – above and below are a preview of what those structures will look like. ‘The new structure is designed to address market changes while creating fair opportunities for all contributors. It rewards content creators for producing quality…
If you are trying to locate a particular image you have seen in a book or poster and have exhausted the Google and Ebay searches then we can help. For example if you are trying to find photos of a classic car which may have featured in races or the…
If you’re interested in a career as a photographer in law enforcement this FBI Q&A will give you a good insight into life working for the agency. FBI field photographers are essential to conducting investigations. On any given day, FBI photographers document crime scenes and criminal activity in all sorts…
PAN enjoyed this run down of archive content usages by the Imperial War Museums licensing team for special TV programming to mark 75 years since the end of the war in Europe. …
Here’s an interesting interview by Shutterstock with one of their staff photographers Stephen Lovekin who usually shoots entertainment content for the agency. Stephen shares what life is like as an Editorial Photographer in the midst of a pandemic and how he’s adapted to social distancing limitations to create timely, thought-provoking…
In the celebrity interest world People magazine has named Rob Silverstein Executive Producer/Showrunner of its new daily, syndicated half-hour TV show based on the content of the PEOPLE brand. Silverstein will oversee all aspects of the new program, which will launch in Meredith’s local television markets in fall 2020.The PEOPLE half-hour TV program will…
Smart licensing move here from the world largest motorsport photo agency Motorsport Images – they are opening the archive to non-commercial users. The new licensing model – working in partnership with SmartFrame Technologies – allows bloggers free image embedding from the agency’s image library, that’s over 26 million images to…
Reuters on Tuesday was awarded a Webby Award for its e-learning course, ‘Identifying and Tackling Manipulated Media.’ The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, named Reuters the winner in the Websites: News & Politics category. ‘Identifying and Tackling Manipulated Media’ is an e-learning course…
The Visionary Award by the Tim Hetherington Trust is designed to foster innovative approaches to visual storytelling by incubating visionary individuals and offer inspiration to others by example. Visual artists and journalists whose thinking and process reach beyond the limitations of conventional media practice to create engaging and dynamic communication…
Recognizing the widespread financial need caused by the worldwide pandemic, the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography will break from tradition this year. Rather than award $40,000 to a single photographer, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund will award $10,000 to five photographers whose work follows the tradition of…
PAN spotted this – stock photos from Panoramic Images on face masks now available from online print store Pixels… here…
US based online news site BuzzFeed will no longer be covering local news in the UK or Australia… ‘both for economic and strategic reasons, we are going to focus on news that hits big in the United States during this difficult period. Therefore, we will notify staff in the UK…
Stock photo agency Shutterstock has launched a new service Asset Assurance, customers can quickly license editorial images and footage in commercial and creative campaigns with the assurance that Shutterstock provides indemnification, alongside its commercial license, to use these images in specific campaigns. How Does it Work? Content labeled “Editorial Use…
UK based Barcroft Studios has produced a new unscripted Snap Original series called Frontline Heroes with the social media platform Snapchat. Self-shot by protagonists to comply with social distancing guidelines, each episode of Frontline Heroes tells the deeply impactful story of a key worker who is risking their life by going to…