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Graphics and video assets platform Envato has acquired stock photo subscription agency Twenty20. Envato say: For seven years, the team at Twenty20 have been helping leading brands and agencies get a fresh, authentic alternative to traditional stock photos. The library of millions of images is by turns, beautiful, bold, candid,…

One for picture researchers and newspaper picture desk photo feature planners here – a licence-ready image search selection from UK photo library fotoLIBRA ‘200th Anniversary of Queen Victoria’s Birth‘ 24 May.…

Spotted this call for info from a Professor Dr. Neil Thurman …’We’ve developed a tool that uses artificial intelligence to suggest photos that could be used to illustrate a news story. You can take a look using the link below. Before and after the demo we’ll ask you a few…

Vibrant video content marketplace FilmHERO (launched April 2019) are online with a new stock footage offer …unlimited access available immediately for only $34 per month for a 6-month subscription period. They say: “Ultra-HD 4K stock footage has become increasingly cost-prohibitive for most content buyers’ budgets,” said Helen Fields, COO. “FilmHERO takes the headache…

Cracking new photographer signing here for UK based photo agency Luxy Images – they are now representing photographer Stephen Wilkes for commercial photo commissions in Europe. View a selection of Stephen’s work below… Luxy has recently expanded its core business of stock production and image research to include production and…

Globe Photos, a leader in the distribution of fine art pop culture photography, and powerhouse media and photo agency MediaPunch have formed a new partnership for licensing and global distribution of their expansive photo archives.The partnership is expected to provide a vast exposure of both libraries, allowing buyers access to…

This in from IMP owner: Hi Will, I am excited to announce that IMP Features will represent Mavrix Photo Inc as of this week in the UK. …and Mavrix Photo will represent IMP content in the US and Canada.…

Following an extensive digitisation project commissioned by NATO, over 2000 titles of official footage are now available for licensing via IWM Film. This project is part of an exclusive global licensing distribution partnership between IWM and NATO, marking the 70th anniversary of the creation of NATO, the world’s strongest political-military…

Happy 3rd birthday to expert motorsport photo agency Spacesuit.We first mentioned them on PAN in 2017 when the agency launched their 10K stock and editorial photo collection …which has now grown to 100K!…

Farleys House & Gallery in East Sussex, UK will be exhibiting a brand new exhibition from The Lee Miller Archives celebrating the colour photography in the collections. ‘Historically a black and white archive, these lesser known works will add a splash of colour to Farleys Gallery, with some images taken…

Sad news reached the PAN news desk last week – the death of stock photo industry creative Lee Wheatley at the age of 49. No cause of death has been given at this time. Lee started his photo licensing career as picture researcher at Mary Evans Photo Library 1995-1998, before…

Cracking report here from image rights enforcement company Copytrack showing that of the three billion images shared online each day, around 85% are unlicensed. That’s a total of around 2.5 billion stolen images! View which image resolutions are most likely to be stolen, the top ten domains for image theft…

A recent story on the BBC: Weather Channel sued for storm chase death prompted us to contact PAN reader and Storm Stock photo agency owner Martin Lisius for his reaction to the news. Hi Will: Thank you for sending this. I’m familiar with the incident. I’m a big proponent for…

We have a company history search here looking to find and clear copyrights: The family member has covered most Kent press and a few local photographers  for images of the company and came to the PPHP looking to widen his search. We have covered our network of commercial news agencies…

December 2018 Retired picture editor Dave Ofield has been going through his industry photo albums and sent us this shot of the staff of the Sport & General “Will, photo taken around about 1977, I think It was taken at the retirement of John Macnee (centre standing)” Update: April 3…

In the UK – the final edition of celebrity/real life magazine Now goes on sale this Wednesday. Now was launched in 1996.Now owner TI Media said on 20 March: Angie O’Farrell, group managing director, lifestyle and women’s weeklies at TI Media, says: “The changing dynamics of the celebrity market –…