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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 –…

We reported a new photo partnership between Mirrorpix and the Mega Agency in December 2017 – today Mega is to begin syndicating content outside of the UK from the Daily and Sunday Express, and the Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, purchased by Mirrorpix owner Reach from Northern & Shell…

Launched last December Vimeo Stock takes on ‘invited’ content producers only …they are now inviting new submissions.…

Directors from Tunisia, Iraq, Hungary, Egypt and Lebanon were among those to be recognised this week -27 March 2019- at the BBC Arabic Festival’s fifth annual Award Ceremony which took place at the BBC Radio Theatre in BBC Broadcasting House, London. The winning films explore themes ranging from political satire…

A new photo library here for PAN (and we know a few!) – Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo in Germany – who dropped us one of their marketing emails …we like the photo desk ready calendar click it above. …and below the gallery for Audrey on 4 May…

A new stock photo resource has been launched this week by VICE Media’s Broadly called “The Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary” – available free for all media outlets …jump to the guildelines. They say: The Gender Spectrum Collection signifies a step toward improved representation of one of…

A few changes to how copyrighted content can be used on the web have been updated in the EU this week …EU: ‘Creatives and news publishers will be empowered to negotiate with internet giants thanks to new copyright rules which also contain safeguards on freedom of expression.’ HERE…

Best of luck to all the nominated photographers for the UK Picture Editors Guild Awards which take place this evening in London …results will be on PAN as soon as we have them! Click through below or here for the photographer shortlist.  …

A Press Photo History Project reader is looking for images similar to the one above which has an image of his Grandfather alongside Douglas Fairbanks and Douglas Fairbanks jnr at The Carlton Hotel on 17/8 /1933. The image above was shot by London News Agency LNA which no longer exists but…

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Starting April 1 leading German travel stock photo agency Look will be taken over by food stock photo agency StockFood – StockFood operates a number of other specialised premium photo agencies. Look was founded in 1989 in Munich by a small group of professional travel and sports photographers and now…

London based art licensing company Meiklejohn Graphics Licensing – MGL – are now representing Martina Pavlova an illustrator and concept artist specialising in modern, feminine illustrations. They say: As a former fashion designer and beauty editor Martina loves all things stylish and pretty, transferring this passion into all of her work using a unique artistic…

Interesting project here from Conde Nast who celebrated web magazine Vogue Girl Japan’s fifth anniversary creating every editorial page (151 pages), including the cover featuring model Nana Komatsu, with a Google pixel 3 smartphone. The special issue called Tokyo Style is the first magazine shot using smartphone only by VOGUE.  Looks like great…