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Photo agency Shutterstock have added more languages to their contributor-facing website and mobile applications.  Now available in 21 languages this aligns with the languages already available on the Shutterstock customer-facing site including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian,…

Enjoyed this from the Huntley Film Archives – a quick tour of their analougue film storage vault.…

An International press photo contest named after Andrei Stenin, a Rossiya Segodnya photojournalist who died in the line of duty in southeastern Ukraine, is accepting submissions for its fifth year — entries startedDecember 22 date Stenin’s birthday. The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest entries from photographers aged 18 to 33…

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Kent, UK based photo library Topfoto is busy uploading the Punch Cartoon archive to their servers under a new exclusive licensing agreement. Over 161 years Punch magazine documented the changing face of British humour and played a central role in the formation of British identity.  A very British institution, Punch…

After reducing contributor royalties to 40% a couple of weeks ago Alamy have now reversed that announcement reinstating 50% royalties for exclusive images only. PAN asked Alamy: ” …does anyone do ‘exclusive’ anymore?!” Alamy told us: “We’ve been asking the question for a few years and we  already have millions…

Some spectacular image content here people! …Google Earth Studio is a browser-based animation tool for Google Earth’s 3D and satellite imagery. Google Earth has a massive store of 2D and 3D Earth data, from large-scale geological features to individual city buildings. Earth Studio is the easiest way to leverage this…

Photographer members of two of the finest UK’s press photo bodies –  Snapperweb and the BPPA – were in fine festive spirit at their joint Christmas party in Fleet Street on Friday evening managing to raise a record £4K in their charity raffle for the LimbBo Foundation  – Great work!  PAN friend Snapperweb owner…

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Scott Braut – Head of Content, Digital Media at Adobe – died suddenly in September this year , friends of Scott have set up a fundraiser page to help support his family. ‘As we reflect on this past year, we cannot help, but be saddened by the loss of our dear…

Image Source has completed its second move this year to its now permanent residence at 66 Old Compton Street, London – the former home of a cardinal London creative icon, Rushes Post-Production House – right in the heart of Soho.  The move to a larger and more modern creative space…

As China looks back on 40 years of reform and opening up it’s time to look back and see how far the country has changed. The youth whose energy and optimism seized the moment with experimentation and invention back in the first decade of the new era built the foundations…

Munich, Germany based photo agency PantherMedia have updated their search experience on the platform this week, here are the highlights: • PantherMedia’s focus for the redesign, was firmly on increasing the quality of the results. The challenge when searching in an archive of more than 100 million images contributed by…

‘Pantone, provider of professional colour standards and digital solutions for the design industry, has announced PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral as the Pantone® Color of the Year 2019, an animating and life-affirming shade of orange with a golden undertone. They say: ‘We get energy from nature. Just as coral reefs are a…

Photo desks and photo researchers trying to clear images by entertainment photographer Alan Davidson, formally The Picture Library, then SilverHub …are now at Shutterstock. Shutterstock told PAN when we enquired …”The Alan Davidson archive, which includes approximately 500,000 images focused on British celebrities, news and society from the 30’s through the…

One of the biggest challenges that designers face when using 3D design tools is having access to reliable, high-quality, photorealistic 3D models. Well, now they can …In 2013, the world-famous Rijksmuseum took the unusual step of offering digital downloads of its collection free of charge. In its next move to…