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Australia based design and publishing platform Canva has acquired free stock photo libraries Pexels and Pixabay, and launched of Photos Unlimited, a new “Netflix-style” subscription model for more affordable paid stock photography. Melanie Perkins, CEO and cofounder at Canva said that with the rise of design literacy, people needed more…

Celebrity photo agency Splash News in the UK has apologised and paid damages to the Duke of Sussex (Prince Harry) over images they shot of his home in the Cotswolds. Splash owners RCapital have given PAN this statement:“Splash has always recognised that this situation represents an error of judgement and…

Scroll down for an update on the evening and our chosen photo project PAN friend photojournalist Cinzia D’Ambrosi has asked me to choose a photo documentary to feature on PAN from her newly organised Photojournalism Hub nights programme. The first event is on 21 May 2019 at Elephant West in…

3 new jobs are now online on our Jobs page…

This in from a PAN reader wanting to get a print of the above image shot in 1936 …We traced images shot the same year to Fox Photos who’s collection ….More on our Press Photo History site…

ZIK Images, the photo archive of Cologne based editorial photographer ZIK (from his surname Friedriszik), is online now and available to license.ZIK photographed news events all over Europe from 1979 until his untimely death in 2016.…

A new rights managed photo library launched this week – Silverlake Archive – the theme is lifestyle, travel, still life, celebrities and fashion. The new venture is being supported by international photo agency Silverlake Photography with the content coming from some of their represented photographers including others from outside the…

Smart new website launch here from Paris based photo agency ABACA. The site covers all their normal photo services from press to corporate with a couple of new pages – a blog and (coming soon) stock photos. The site also includes a nifty tool – a text news feed from…

Photo library akg-images has acquired Historic Maps archive, one of the world’s largest collections of maps, engravings, photographs and city views of Germany, Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Australia. 7,000 digitally enhanced images are available now. They say: ‘With the addition of this material, akg-images’ clients are now able to…

Mirrorpix sent us sad news last week on the passing of newspaper photographer Doreen Spooner. The Mirror ran the news. Here’s a story we ran on PAN in 2016 on the publication of her book. Read: Doreen Spooner – Fleet Street’s first female photographer…

In New York Shutterstock presented their Q1 results for 2019 – it’s interesting reading. The content is increasing rapidly – the per image revenue is not. One PAN reader told me ‘…it’s interesting the per image rev has actually gone up, I’d expected this to have gone down’. – PAN…

Magnum Photos is relaunching it’s commercial services reinforced with a brand new website showcasing the creative work they have been shooting for clients. They say: ‘In line with the times, Magnum has kept pace with progress in the marketing and advertising industries, evolving to meet the needs of global clients…

First drawn up in 2016 Shutterstock is renewing the photo distribution deal they have with the Associated Press to distribute AP’s daily global photo output for license to customers based in the U.S., U.K. and Ireland. – thats approximately 3,000 images daily, from breaking news to red carpets to live…

The keywords of over 14,000 film stills from the archive of STUDIOCANAL Films have been enhanced to offer more information to researchers Mary Evans Picture Library in London represents the collection exclusively worldwide – it includes artwork, production and publicity images from over 1000 titles from the early days of…

This in: Hi Will,I hope you don’t mind me reaching out to you. I was given your details by Magnum Photos.I am trying to establish who took the attached photograph in Brick Lane in 1978 for inclusion in a free to access educational online resource for secondary schools.I have established that…

Smart work here from Shutterstock who just launched a virtual reality experience which allows their iOS app users to visualise how an image from Shutterstock’s collection would look in real life – its the agencies first Augmented Reality (AR) feature. Using the Shutterstock customer app, users can click a button…