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Globe Photos, a leader in the distribution of fine art pop culture photography, and powerhouse media and photo agency MediaPunch have formed a new partnership for licensing and global distribution of their expansive photo archives.The partnership is expected to provide a vast exposure of both libraries, allowing buyers access to…

This in from IMP owner: Hi Will, I am excited to announce that IMP Features will represent Mavrix Photo Inc as of this week in the UK. …and Mavrix Photo will represent IMP content in the US and Canada.…

Following an extensive digitisation project commissioned by NATO, over 2000 titles of official footage are now available for licensing via IWM Film. This project is part of an exclusive global licensing distribution partnership between IWM and NATO, marking the 70th anniversary of the creation of NATO, the world’s strongest political-military…

Happy 3rd birthday to expert motorsport photo agency Spacesuit.We first mentioned them on PAN in 2017 when the agency launched their 10K stock and editorial photo collection …which has now grown to 100K!…

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…