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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 –…

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…