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In the UK The Royal Armouries has launched their own photo library Royal Armouries Image Library. ‘Over 16,000 high resolution images across the entire range of our collection and can be licensed for a range of media, including book publishing, magazines, television, film production, and digital products, such as website…

Stock video photo agency Pond5 has partnered with major video news providers to offer an ‘industry-disrupting’ royalty-free editorial collection. They say: ‘Access to high-quality news footage has traditionally been subjected to complicated licensing structures at high prices. With this collection, Pond5 is reinventing an industry largely known for a strict rights-managed…

UK performing arts photo library ArenaPAL are online with a brand new website this week. They say: ‘Some of the new features include – easy quick searches, larger displays of thumbnails and previews, collection filters, new simplified lightboxes and an advanced user account section that allows quick access to your…

Always good to brush up on detail affecting images in your photo library … MOD copyright information, how to obtain licensing permission, use of MOD names, logos and insignia on items offered for sale (merchandise).HERE…

If you work in a picture library …you know it’s all about the pictures …publishing …and a little design work. Which is exactly what the staff at London based Mary Evans Picture Library presented to their Head of Sales & Research Luci Gosling in the form of a birthday card,…

View an update on the UK Government IP Office blog re the whole GDPR ‘thing’. ….’If a person commissions a photograph of themselves for private purposes, they have the right to control how that image is used under copyright law.’‘As a photographer, you probably want to share your work widely…

Offside Sports photo agency photographer Charlotte Wilson and AMA Sports Photo agency photographer Molly Darlington are shooting the FIFA Women’s World Cup in France covering their journey on a blog – follow what it takes to cover the tournament HERE…

Stock illustrations agency Ikon Images are online with a brand new website this week take a look. They say: ‘With over 300 of the worlds best illustrators and artists being represented, Ikon Images have now developed a website worthy of this impressive collection of images. Along with a crisp new…

Guest post here from Storm Stock MD Martin Lisius Microstock – the dark side of image licensing There are often two sides to an industry. The side the customer sees, and the “inside” that industry people see. This article is about the inside of the stock image industry. In the…

Today Rex Features has rebranded to Shutterstock Editorial …take a look Shutterstock say: ‘The global rebranding process today is primarily cosmetic focused (updated logo, email and website copy) and will have a minimal effect on the day-to-day workflow of our customers, contributors and partners. Our team is committed to growing…

BETA launched in 2015 the Shutterstock Editor tool is now helping over 5 million creatives, designers, and marketers speed up their design workflow. …and the photo agency just added multi-page presentation templates ‘designed to help ignite creativity for engaging slideshows’.…

PAN reader Anna Stevens, Producer at London based editorial photo agency Panos Pictures, writes: “Hi Will, I’m producing a workshop for Panos for NGO staff on assigning photography” Panos’ industry workshops are aimed at communications, digital and media professionals wanting to explore the methods, opportunities and challenges of working with…

Authentic Brands Group (ABG), a global brand development, marketing and entertainment company, has announced the purchased of intellectual property of Sports Illustrated from Meredith Corporation. ABG assumes the marketing, business development and licensing functions for the Sports Illustrated intellectual property and brand, while the print magazine and SI.com will maintain…

This exhibition brings together for the first time, over sixty original prints by renowned émigré photographers Gerti Deutsch and Kurt Hutton, together with Bert Hardy and Haywood Magee, revealing Picture Post magazine’s stories of refugees and immigrants to Britain from the 1930s to the 1950s.  Images focus on the Kindertransport and…

Vanity Fair started life as Dress & Vanity Fair, a men’s style magazine, published by Condé Montrose Nast in 1913 – This week the magazine’s complete archive is online. • Access details: ‘For the first month, access to our archive will be free – create an account here. After June 30,…

Freelance documentary photographer Susan Meiselas, a member of Magnum Photos since 1976, has been awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019. Meiselas was deemed to have made a consistently outstanding contribution to photography, influencing the way that audiences encounter and understand the form and exemplifying a commitment and personal…

Congratulations to Joseph Volpe who joins Motorsport Images this week as Account Manager for the Americas. Based in New York, Joseph will be tasked with opening up new business opportunities for Motorsport Images with editorial and commercial clients. They say: ‘Joseph comes to us with a depth of business development…