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Phil is in New York and has been for sometime now – He sold his sports photo agency EMPICS to the Press Association in 2004 – see the PAN report– and has set up a very successful local-lifestyle magazine for the NY area called W42ST. Due to the Covid situation…

PAN loved this project overview montage by UK Picture Editor Claire Woodall celebrating her year long 16 week photo desk placement at Channel 4.Claire, a seasoned photo editor, started in the industry as a Picture Researcher with photo agency Superstock in 1998 moving into picture editor roles at BBC Good…

Tough news into PAN this afternoon – UK stock photo library fotoLibra will close on the Monday 1st June.The library was set up seventeen years ago by Gwyn Headley and Yvonne Seeley – Gwyn sent this note to his contributing photographers summing up the situation and understandable reasons for shutting…

The ddp group – see their PAN listing – is now offering rights tracking not only for authors of the agency group but also as a service for third parties.PAN spoke with them last night on the news and we are happy to report they are treating image rights chasing…

Dribbble, a site where creatives share, grow and get hired, has acquired Creative Market a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets. CEO at Creative Market Chris Winn says: “Creative Market is the world’s marketplace for design. Since 2012, we’ve welcomed over six million members from more than 195 countries. All along,…

An interesting take on the current ‘Corona’ situation here from photographer Jan Walter who has ‘reframed the topic’ under the title ‘Humor in times of Corona’ – uploaded and ready for licensing at German photo library imageBROKER who say: “Anyone who has worked for clients such as Rolf Benz, Yves…

A UK national newspaper reported on Sunday that photo agency Splash News is preparing to appoint administrators for it’s UK branch. PAN is trying to clarify the move – here’s what our source close to the situation told us: “It is true that one of the companies in the Splash…

The Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries International – FOCAL – has postponed this year’s international awards due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The 2020 London gala evening ceremony, booked for 18th June, has been put back to the Autumn.…

As The National Archives offices at Kew are closed they have freed up digital downloads of records. Details: Registered users will be able to order and download up to ten items at a time, to a maximum of 50 items over 30 days. The limits are there to try and…

Positive photo usage here by Motorsport Images, part of the Motorsport Network, who donated this fabulous signed print of Sir Stirling Moss to the Bonhams NHS charity ‘Blue’ auction. The auction which ran online 8-29 April raised over £400,000 for the NHS charities Urgent Covid-19 Appeal. The auctioneer stated that…

In an open letter titled ‘Associated Media Publishing: the end of an era’ the South African publishing giant has announced that the company will cease trading on May 1. In the letter they say: AMP published Cosmopolitan, House & Leisure. Good Housekeeping and Women on Wheels. The company launched in…

UK based photographer and Global Warming Images photo agency owner Ash Cooper is attempting to raise £1M for a national memorial for Covid Victim – visit his fundraising page here…

Shutterstock in the UK will be running the ITV stills photo distribution for another three years – again under an exclusive arrangement.…

The Getty Images’ Reportage Grant this year includes eight $5,000 to be a warded to photojournalists working to safely capture COVID-19 stories worldwide.They say: ‘Understanding that COVID-19 and the resulting travel restrictions have presented photographers worldwide with immense obstacles as to how and where they work, as well as opportunities to convey the wide-ranging impact of the pandemic and also inform…

Photographers and reporters have been very important in reporting and recording this historic time! Reuters have put together a great video showing them at work – above They say: Thank you to the journalists around the world who bring us the news about the COVID-19 pandemic.…

There is a new girl at Backgrid photo agency in the UK! Really great to report the safe and perfect arrival of baby Isla Valentine Taylor to Sophie and James Taylor yesterday – 22 April. Congratulations! PAN assumes Granddad David Taylor, the owner at Backgrid, will be calling a Zoom…

David Ellis, Sales Director of The Mega Agency in the UK, has been using his lockdown time wisely in between photo sales. David who is an accomplished triathlete has been recording a daily fitness routine and today is Day 31! PAN spotted the agency signage proudly embracing the home-gym wall!…

A PAN reader spotted this so we took a look – Website company WIX is looking for photo and video content.Their latest brief is Friends & Family – ‘We’re looking for photos & videos of family life: couples, parents, grandparents and children of all genders, ages, religions and ethnicities.’ ‘Please note…