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Hello Will Hope all is well. Since I last spoke to you in the Summer, I have secured work at the Warburg Institute (University of London), where I am digitising books from the library…. Read on PressPhotoHistory.com…

This in from Press Photo History Project reader Maik Wagner Dear Will, I would like to make a contribution to your project and noticed that the photo agency I did an internship with in 1998 is not listed. The agency is People in Pictures Ltd. run by David George (father and  Managing Director)…

Yup, it’s just around the corner and will be flooding every retail outlet soon so photo researchers and editors get stock photo prepared with this sun soaked easter selection from Hamburg, Germany based photo agency BACKUPimages…

V&A images, the photo licensing department at the London V&A Museum, have created a fine ready-edited selection of their fashion & couture images in celebration of the opening of a new exhibition at the museum ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’…

Shortlist for the UK Picture Editors Guild Awards in association with Shutterstock ‘After weeks of deliberation we are finally able to present the shortlist of the UK Picture Editors Guild Awards. Hundreds of photographers submitted thousands of pictures that were judged by ten experienced judges. The number of pictures submitted this year…

Jim Dietz, an Editorial Events Engineer with Getty Images has died. PAN understands Jim was on assignment for the agency at the Atlanta Super Bowl when he died last Wednesday, 30 January. He was 53. No cause of death has been given at the time of publication. According to Jim’s LinkedIn…

In November 2018 the Getty family and Koch Equity Development (KED) invested $500M in Getty Images  – today they just added an additional $100M. …’The equity investment will facilitate accelerated growth and reduce leverage’. They say: ‘The investment will be split evenly between the Getty family investment vehicles and KED and is…

Advertisement German photo agency Face to Face is for sale. This is a great opportunity to enter the biggest editorial market in Europe with over 1600 magazines and approx 340 daily newspapers turning over 20 billion Euros yearly. Face to Face was founded in 1999, the business supplies stock images covering the sectors entertainment,…

  UK photo and video creation agency Barcroft Media has a new name – Barcroft Studios – added new senior staff and reported a tenfold increase on monthly advertising revenue generated by the company’s digital content from January to December 2018. The company saw its shows reach 1bn monthly views in…

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Encyclopaedia Britannica and Binumi (video creation and content platform) have teamed up to bring video storytelling into Britannica’s global product lines with their first product LumieLabs™. They say: Named after filmmaking pioneers the Lumière brothers, LumieLabs gives K-12 school users millions of royalty-free multimedia clips structured around the curriculum, cloud-based editing and…

The Associated Press will provide live underwater video from a deep-sea research mission that aims to unlock the secrets of the Indian Ocean. AP is the only news agency working with a team of British scientists from the Nekton research team, who will explore depths of up to 300 meters (1,000…

Berlin, Germany based 25 year old photo agency Reflex Media will close it’s shop door at the end of this month. Owner Michael Symanowski told PhotoArchiveNews.com after we contacted him on the news via email:  “Hi Will, yes, indeed we have closed down the agency due to unsatisfying business development and, besides…

Congrats this week to PAN reader, Ex Corbis celebrity portraiture photo director, Kendall Higbee who has launched his own photo agency Matrix Management.  Based in Los Angeles the agency will be representing commercial photographers and has already signed Ben Riggott, Larsen & Talbert Photography, Ryan West and Brian Lowe.…

15,000 images from the Spaces Images collection are now available for direct licensing from Mint Images, and through Mint’s distribution partners around the world. PAN photo editor notes: • Mint Images is dedicated to creating the world’s finest commercial imagery that relates to our environment, sustainability and issues of health…

Time to test your creative skills here with plainpicture who have posted a quick quiz as part of their creative trends results for 2019. Click above or here to test your stock photo brain!…

For sale: The Fox Photo Archive sale by auction catalogue – Sotheby’s Belgravia 1976 – all proceeds to our Press Photo History project. This is a photocopy of the original sale catalogue A5 size …21 pages, description of library contents, photo examples, photographers, and subject list. More on Fox and the…