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  This week, Bristol, UK based, Nature Picture Library finalised the launch of their new website which includes new features, separate video search, bigger images and an extensive blog section. Nature PL also announced UK representation of Minden Pictures providing access to more than 130,000 images from their portfolio of leading wildlife…

  New York based photo agency Trunk Archive are now representing the archive of photographer Mark Seliger for exclusive worldwide image licensing. Seliger was Rolling Stone’s Chief Photographer from 1992-2002 and shot over 150 covers for them. He has also been a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and GQ for the past 17…

Congrats to PAN reader Andre Gailani who will now be overseeing British Pathé licensing service for producers in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. He says: “It is a privilege to work for this world renowned archive. Having invented the newsreel format, British Pathé is at once The Voice of Britain in the…

Starting from March 1st, Hamburg based photo agency action press will be representing photo content from celebrity photo agency IMP Features in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.  “The new partnership with IMP Features completes the existing portfolio perfectly. action press clients can now be served with additional and top class content…

Magnum Photos has announced the departure of its CEO, David Kogan after over four and a half years at the helm. Kogan is stepping down on 1 March 2019. PAN asked Magnum for more info on David’s departure: ‘David is leaving to focus on his forthcoming book ‘Protest and Power’ investigating…

Last night in London celebrities were in full party mood after a very energetic evening celebrating the BRIT Awards 2019 event …after the formal event the parties started which is when the photographers and photo agencies really get to work. The Sun and the Mail Online covered the parties choosing…

The world loves photography! …I know we know this but it’s now official –  National Geographic Instagram feed just reached 100M followers. They say: @NatGeo, whose creative control is largely in the hands of a number of National Geographic’s contributing photographers, shares the rare and incredible sights they encounter on a…

Pearson has sold it’s US K12 courseware business to Nexus Capital Management LP (Nexus). The US K12 courseware business provides textbooks and instructional resources to help teachers and students at every stage of K12 learning in the United States. Pearson say: ‘This disposal is an important part of our ongoing work to…

Impact Photos formed 1981, taken over in 2005 then officially stopped trading in 2017. The negatives and transparencies have been sorted and photographers identified and contacted over a number of months of hard work by a group of caring photographers. They have now got to a final list below.  All…

Expert marketing list agency BikiniLists have released more USA contacts – click the map for the to watch the demo.…

National Geographic and PBS NewsHour (US based 40-year-old archive of news and historic footage) are the latest content partners to join the Reuters Connect platform, offering subscribers photography from the National Geographic Image Collection, and b-roll from PBS NewsHour for the first time. They say: Justine Flatley, Product Manager for Content Partnerships, Reuters, said: “Reuters customers…

  ‘AFP is starting a new chapter in the german market for sports news’ Global news agency AFP has announced a restructuring at it’s German sports news agency subsidiary SID Sport-Informations-Dienst – a dual leadership structure with the aim of winning new clients in media and non-media sectors. Rainer Finke,…

TRT World Citizen Short Film Competition opened for submissions on January 1st, 2019 and will accept films until May 31st 2019. The World Citizen Short Film Competition provides a platform for filmmakers to explore global humanitarian issues from a unique and creative perspective. In our second year, the competition is…

In Germany photo agency ddp images has announced a boost to their exclusive celebrity candid’s content via new partnerships with CiaoPix and Spread Pictures.…

A deep archive search required here from the press photo giants….a Press Photo History project reader is on the search for a couple of images of his Grandfather John Cadman (called Ambassador for Oil) from his lecture on the evening of Friday July 21, 1933 at the Royal Institution where he…

Sad news reached the PAN office this week from the family of photo agency man Martin Hillier who passed away on the 30 January. The photo of Martin above and this message is from Martin’s family: Martin Hillier, a Director for more than 30 years of Rex Features photo agency, passed…