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Photographer Tim Bishop sent us this photo after meeting retired newspaper photographer Bill Rowntree. “Meeting up with Mirror legend Bill Rowntree and as pin sharp as ever nearly twenty years retired. It’s been while: The last time we stood shoulder to shoulder on a job, they were burying his boss…

In the PAN post this week …cheers Tom  – great production, fantastic photographs! Spanning his ten-year engagement with the British furry fandom subculture, Tom Broadbent’s At Home With The Furries takes a fluffy, scaly and feathery peek at a community of people who happen to identify as animal characters. Here or…

It’s Back… and better than ever – The BikiniLists Advent Calendar. All month we’re giving away juicy treats every day to our freebie account holders… Don’t worry if you missed out so far, as there’s still plenty of goodies up for grabs… Fill your boots… Click it!…

PICHA-Stock, a RF photo agency of ‘contemporary and stunning images of Africa’ have announced the winning photographers in their Future Focus campaign to be exhibited from 6 Dec  – 19 Jan 2019 at: SOFACOMPANY.COM GRAND SHOWROOM 72 Hudson Street Cape Town, WC 8001 South Africa • And the preview is Thursday…

Entry to the awards are now closed  – Picture Editors’ Guild Chairman Alan Sparrow sent us this update from the last few days of entries …”over four hundred pictures were uploaded on Thursday 500 on Friday , over 600 on Saturday and 2000 picture on Sunday making the total entry…

This years’ Chair of Judges for the UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards will be Helen Healy, Head of Pictures at the Financial Times. With over twenty years’ experience in picture editing she has also worked at the Guardian, The Times and the Independent. She has seen the newspaper industry move…

Alamy just dropped the sales commission they pay to photographers to 40% from the long standing 50% On hearing the news through our reader network this afternoon PhotoArchiveNews.com contacted the photo agency who told us they are not putting anything official out to news sites -just to contributors- but confirmed…

This into the PAN inbox …if you can provide the print contact [email protected] Dear Sirs, I am looking for pictures of Rabbit, a 34’ sloop designed by Dick Carter that took part in the 1965 One Ton Cup in Le Havre and in the Cowes Week of the same year,…

French companies info site Societe reports Paris based news and celebrity photo agency E Press Photo founded in 2013 was liquidated on November 21. Facts and figures here for any creditors…

According to The Baron (an open, free and independent website. Its sole purpose is to communicate topical and historical information of interest to Reuters people past and present) – news agency Reuters are speeding up their merger of news pictures and video news into a single department. Read on at…

Shutterstock have launched a ‘premium tier of royalty-free video content’ called Shutterstock Select a curated edit of 10,000 premium 4K video clips filmed using cinema-grade gear. They say: This new offering of content offers the highest production value available in the industry and features in-demand content categories such as cinematic…

The French press photo agency Cosmos photo is in liquidation  – officially declared bankrupt 25th October by the Tribunal of the Paris Chamber of Commerce. COSMOS distribution photo agencies around the world are contacting photographers re continued representation. For the record, here is the detail about the agency – in case…

Celebrity photo agency IMP Features have kicked off December with a festive offer for contributing photographers – All exclusive image sales will be paid instantly throughout December. This offer is open to both existing and new photographers to the agency. They say: ‘The moment a sale is confirmed/published, IMP Features will…

These photos show the darkroom staff of Central Press photo agency during their lunch breaks in late 1960’s Over on my The Press Photo History project I published the full set …..and I am always looking for more. [email protected]…

Shutterstock just confirmed a ‘knock out’ new service – they are ready to clear image rights and usage for advertising via rights specialist Greenlight. Greenlight clears content with rights holders for use in commercial advertising and corporate campaigns and Greenlight also represents the rights for some of the biggest icons,…

Building story … All photo agencies will need to really start sharpening their marketing skills here… Getty Images has reached an agreement with Koch Equity Development LLC (KED), the investment arm of Koch Industries, whereby KED will make a $500 million non-controlling preferred equity investment in the company. • Under…