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Here’s a great 5 point reminder for marketeers on the subject of using so-called free photos –  from UK PAN reader Picture Researcher Sally Claxton. Are free images worth the cost? As consumers we are regularly encouraged to make sure that we know the origin of the products we buy. …

Gallery Stock just boosted their photo library with an exclusive addition of images from advertising and lifestyle agency Tinker Street  – take a look HERE…

Online this week with a sparkling new photo agency website is Milan, Italy based Soevermedia. Photos and video are openly searchable  – and downloadable once you register. Photo desks will be able to navigate among thousands of images shot by the agency  photographers as well as browse the collections Soevermedia syndicates…

Update: 13 July 2018: Rex in London were straight onto this and then we were sent an update on the situation from Rex owner Shutterstock in New York – here I’m sure there is some kind of mis-communication here …but looking forward to reporting a satifactory outcome on this image…

With the weather app showing a continual flow of yellow for the foreseeable …here’s a few sunshine related images from the Reginald A. Malby collection at Mary Evans. Photographer background: Reginald A. Malby, one of the finest horticultural photographers of his era and official photographer of the Royal Horticultural Society in…

Here at the PAN office we were delighted to hear from Nature Picture Library that Alex Mustard has been awarded the MBE for services to underwater photography in the Queen’s birthday honours list. To celebrate this excellent news, Nature Picture Library have created a new gallery of his work  including many…

Yesterday, MEPs rejected a proposal to begin negotiations to update copyright laws for the digital age. Parliament’s plenary voted by 318 votes to 278, with 31 abstentions to reject the negotiating mandate, proposed by the Legal Affairs Committee on 20 June. As a result, Parliament’s position will now be up…

Storm chasing specialists StormStock (all you need to know is in the name) have freed up a Dropbox facility for accessing stormy previews. Now, clients can access StormStock’s best preview clips and download them individually or as a full batch by category using Dropbox folders. Simply go to the StormStock…

“Be smart – and move your archive to an agency built for the future.” – Kevin Smith, Mega’s Founder and President. The Mega Agency is now giving news, sport and entertainment photographers a quick, easy and efficient way to upload their digital archives – on The Mega Cloud. The initiative has been…

  SilverHub Media went into administration on the 12 June after a couple of years in business – here’s what we have been sent after requesting info from the administrator. Jason Baker and Phil Armstrong, partners at specialist business advisory firm FRP Advisory LLP, were appointed Joint Administrators of SilverHub…

Photo agency Splash News has new owners today after a management buy-out of the agency previously owned by SilverHub Media. The new management team of John Churchill, CEO, Danny Hayward, Director of Global Content and Simon Bridger, Global Digital Solution Director, previously behind the Flynet Pictures agency in the UK,…

A museum dedicated to war photography will open its doors in Zagreb, Croatia early July. The museums first exhibition has been funded through a crowed funded call  – ‘we collected more than $8000 for the costs of running the first exhibition. This exhibition will feature professional photos depicting horrors of war,…

In this new series on PAN we are giving photo agency owners a chance to record the history of their photo agency – something I wish had happened more often in the 1930’s – 1960’s ! The aim to record how particular agencies worked, the staff, the darkroom, getting images on…

On our Press Photo History project site.   Lenny Hanson, a conservator at Getty Images’ Hulton Archive facility in East London passed away while on holiday a year ago. He was 60 years old. I wanted to mark Lenny’s contribution to the press photo industry here on my Press Photo History…

American Media, Inc. (AMI), the leading publisher of celebrity journalism and health and fitness magazines in the United States, has announced it has partnered with The Mega Agency, who will become the organisation’s premium content partner. The deal, signed earlier this month, gives AMI greater access to The Mega Agency’s breaking…

The celebrity entertainment photo space just got squeezed a little – New York based photo agency MediaPunch just announced they have started signing the ‘best of photographers from the entertainment space to catapult its services to new heights’. The company represents next-generation professional photography service which assures an exclusive worldwide…

London based editorial photo feature agency Scope Features (their website is down) has gone into administration. Scope Features was founded in 1971 by Dennis Cooper (died 2013) he was also a Director of Transworld Feature Syndicate in the 1990’s. The agency was most recently run by Peter Murphy. PAN noticed the…

Gary Morgan, a founder of celebrity photo agency Splash sold in 2011, is back in the media arena with a brand new project called Click My Closet. PAN spoke with Gary this week in his new LA office – we’ll have more on the project soon, here’s what you need…