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This morning the Mega Agency expanded their celebrity photo database by 2.5 million images from the Phil Ramey photo agency, one of the world’s classic entertainment archives. Paul Tetley, Mega’s Chief Operating Officer told PhotoArchiveNews.com over the weekend: “Phil Ramey is a legendary photographer and through the iris of his long…

Spotted a nifty marketing email from New York based photo library Trunk Archive land on the inbox this week – preparing photo creatives for spring – view their Bold & Bright images Here!…

Smart move here from Shutterstock who this week announced a new content integration within Final Cut Pro X. The Shutterstock extension is the only stock footage extension to be integrated with the release of Final Cut Pro X, offering more than 250 million video, image, and music assets available for…

  This film still wins the PAN top stock photo usage of the week prize  – that flat white at the London Bridge Grind Paul! Mary Evans dug into their unrivalled film stills stock collection to provide the perfect front cover image for the hotly-anticipated new album from The Good,…

Lovely short film here shot last week in the Getty Images archive London where actor Stephen Thompkinson, who is currently playing ‘Scrooge’ in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic London, went to meet archive director Matt Butson to view and discover images of Charles Dickens from the collection.…

The David Hill Gallery in London are running their second George Rodger photo exhibition (the first was last year) ‘In the heart of the Sudan, and to the west of the White Nile, there is a strange and unreal land, which the hand of time has hardly touched in passing.’  George Rodger  Leaving…

Cracking signing here for London based online photo print store Sonic Editions  – they just added an edit from the Life Picture Collection to their already impressive photo offering. Sonic say: ‘The photographers you’ll find in the Life Picture Collection include such greats as Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, John Dominis…

Owen Beiny – the son of WENN CEO Lloyd Beiny – is leaving the paparazzi agency after 19 years to start his own business. Owen who has headed up the agency’s Los Angeles office for the last 12 years  – he was only meant to be there for a month – is…

Getty Images is going to license footage from the the BBC Motion Gallery for another five years  – exclusively. The first deal was struck in 2013.…

A new photo copyright checking service from PAN…

  The New York Times are digitising 6M prints from their photo archive to use as story content in the newspaper – Google are helping them with the process – ‘making use of numerous tools within Google Cloud Platform that allow them to securely store their images, provide them with…

J. David Ake, deputy bureau chief for visual journalism at the AP Washington bureau, has been promoted to director of photography for The Associated Press. He will be based in New York. Ake joined AP in 1997 as a photo editor at the Chicago bureau. He previously worked for Reuters, United…

Prestigious awards shed new light on research into our past and present: from the impact of technology on modern families to a forgotten chapter of British history The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) announced the winners of their Research in Film Awards 2018 at the BAFTA building in London last…

UK based editorial photo agency Panos Pictures are online this week with their new website …take a view and a search Here’s a brand new site from FootageBank  – click through the home page above to view some well edited  stock footage. …and we are adding new social media feeds…

The FOCAL International Awards celebrate achievement in the use of footage in all variety of genres, across all media platforms plus its restoration. HERE…

  Congrats to Lauren Kelly who has landed the job of Senior Agent at New York based photo agency AUGUST.  – Prior to joining AUGUST, Lauren was a Senior Agent & Copyright Lead at Trunk Archive & Gallery Stock, the image-licensing companies of Great Bowery. On Lauren: After graduating from Boston College…

Storm Stock owner Martin Lisius emailed PAN this week to say his agency is now producing and offering 16K content. Early this year, Lisius built and tested a 16K camera system that could film at a mind-blowing 15,985 x 5792 resolution (2.76 “Panavision 70”). Once he completed with testing, he headed…