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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…

A nifty contributor update here from Shutterstock – uploading vectors to the platform will now be much easier as the system automatically creates a JPG preview for all your vectors …meaning you no longer have to submit a JPG when you upload.…

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…