Great news here from PA Images -the photography arm of the Press Association in the UK- they have launched a new sports photography internship to increase social, ethnic and gender diversity within the profession. Beginning in January 2019, the six-month programme will run twice each year, offering two emerging sports…
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In the PAN post this week we received a couple of catalogues and the latest competition details for the international news photography contest Istanbul Photo Awards – something we have been watching grow for a while. Organised by the Anadolu Agency, a global news agency based in Turkey the contest…
Fotolia the stock photo platform acquired by Adobe in 2015 to kick start the Adobe Stock offering will close at the end of next year – 2019. The Fotolia content will be merged into Adobe Stock. • What you need to do as a Fotolia customer with image credits: If…
Milan, Italy based photo agency Mondadori Portfolio ( the photo agency of one of Europe’s top publishers the Mondadori Group) have launched a new website this week. The completely renovated site allows a faster and deeper search through the agency’s millions of contempory and archival image collections. While maintaining an…
Congratulations to PhotoArchiveNews.com reader James Claydon on his appointment as Managing Director, Images at Motorsport Network heading up the photo collection Motorsrport Images – They say “James’ brief is to drive international awareness of the richness of the Motorsport Images archive, to lead global business development and enable the productisation of the…
Having had a strong summer production with photo exclusives from Ibiza, Formentera and Mykonos Dutch based photo agency IMP Features is expanding production and direct sales to the UK. The UK office will be managed by Hannah Marlin (above photo), who has had more than 12 years’ industry experience at…
As I am on a continual search for anything related to the processes of newspaper photography in Fleet Street (it’s a rarely published subject!) I found the feature above in a copy of Picture Post magazine published in March 1939 – but no photographer was mentioned – I had to…
“Back in 2006 I had an assignment for TIME magazine. I was given 25 seconds with the Queen to shoot a portrait. At night. No lighting set up allowed. In a room full of mirrors…. and then her family walked in….” View the portrait David secured in those 25 seconds…
The Mega Agency has boosted its editorial team with the hiring of picture editor Darren Banks and journalist Gavin Wilson. Gavin (photo right) joins the agency’s UK team, and will help co-ordinate and grow news and photographic coverage across Europe. He previously worked for Splash News, spending ten years in…
Magnum Photos is looking for the next generation of international photographers to join its global artistic co-operative. The agency is accepting portfolio submissions from all international professional photographers and entries for June 2019 can be made directly through Magnum Photos’ dedicated website. Applicants are required to submit two to three…
In 1993, filmmaker Martin Lisius was just completing a series of severe weather related programs he produced and directed for TV when he began receiving phone calls from other producers needing storm footage for their own productions. It was then that he decided to create StormStock, a collection of cinematic…
Ever inventive photo library plain picture have launched their version of search by colour and we like it! – have a go here.…
Enjoyed this smart marketing mailer spotted in the PAN inbox this week…. Click the marketing to view, search and license fresh stock photography…
With the 100th anniversary of the First World War armistice just round the corner next month, Mary Evans Picture Library are taking this opportunity to once again highlight this amazing collection of war photography. The Robert Hunt Library was founded by Bobby Hunt, a noted artist, art teacher and cartoonist…
Congrats to Alex Morris and Sam Barcroft of photo and video agency Barcroft Media who collected the Best YouTube Award at the Content Innovation Awards at the Carlton Hotel, Cannes last week …for the second year running. …
PAN friend Juliet Hacking – Subject Leader in Photography at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London and was formerly Head of the Photographs Department at Sotheby’s auction house – has a new book out. Published by Lund Humphries, Photography and the Art Market charts the transition of photographs created for aesthetic…
The photographer wrote “Undress” and wasn’t particularly comprehensive with the questions asked on the form for this occasion.’ Read the notes on our Press Photo History project …