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  Exciting news here for budding news photographers as applications are now open for a new scholarship sponsored by Reuters on  ICP’s Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Programme in 2018/2019. PAN friends, The International Center of Photography (ICP), the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture, announced the…

  In London the Imperial War Museum IWM has upgraded its IWM Film website – now with a dynamic new interface and additional features to make the IWM digitised film collection even more accessible. Jane Fish, Senior Curator – Film, IWM says; “The new version of Imagen has given us all the tools we need to…

In the UK iconic music magazine NME will cease it’s print magazine to concentrate online. Paul Cheal, Time Inc. UK group managing director, Music, says: “NME is one of the most iconic brands in British media and our move to free print has helped to propel the brand to its…

‘Getty Images sincerely apologizes for the images of Kelly Marie Tran that incorrectly identified her as Olympian Mirai Nagasu and was licensed by customers who trusted the accuracy of the caption information.   Getty Images holds itself to a high standard of editorial integrity and has robust measures in place to ensure…

Michael-John Jennings the Picture Librarian at the Times (News Licensing) photo archive dropped PAN a line this week. “Hi Will, I wanted to share with you a blog post I did from the archives last night (March 4), on Sir Roger Bannister. Myself and Jack Hill the Times photographer were…

Congratulations to the winners – more than 10,000 photographs from 82 countries were submitted to the DAYS JAPAN International Photojournalism Awards 2018.  DAYS JAPAN is a monthly photojournalism magazine launched in March 2004 which aims to tell the truth from the perspective of the victimised civilians and not those exercising…

This image is one from the series “At Home With The Furries” which PAN reader – photographer Tom Broadbent – is hoping to make into a book, with the help of the Kickstarter community. The Furries series has already featured in the Sunday Times magazine, photo books and an exhibition on…

  The latest visual trend from Adobe Stock is all about the representation of more diverse identities, titled The Fluid Self: Visualising New Identities. Their Blog post by Brenda Mills, talks about the growing move towards more non-gender specific societies and how they are represented in fashion and the media…

PAN reader UK based editorial photographer Cinzia D’Ambrosi is shooting her photo project Hate Hurts over the coming months and asked me to let picture desks and photo agencies know she will be available for photo assignment during the project. I’ll be covering her photo enquires while she is away.…

    In the UK, News Licensing, the photo agency and library of the The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and The Sun on Sunday newspapers are today expanding the publisher’s reach and revenue by partnering with The Mega Agency and ddp Group. They say: “Following a countrywide review, News Licensing has…

Here is a wonderful account of a great life in pictures written by photographer Herbie Knott and sent to me by Frank’s son John Selby with a selection of photos which I have edited into Herbie’s obituary.  Frank Selby, 1918–2018, Founder of Rex Features For many years there was an…

Visual China Group VCG the group/photo library which bought Corbis in Jan ’16 have now added creative images photo library 500px to their content stable. VCG had already pumped $13M into 500px in 2015…

Congratulations to The Sun’s Richard Pelham who won the SJA Sports Photographer of the Year 2017, sponsored by Canon, seen here holding his three awards including The Ed Lacey Trophy. He also took Sports Picture and Football Portfolio. The following photography awards were also presented at a gala dinner on…

It’s a little ‘corporate’ but Getty Images is just that, they shoot and deliver fine photography for corporates and they do it well so if you want to see how the team work on a massive scale sit back and view the energy.…

Camera Press is representing the Bryan Adams photo archive again.  Adams’ work over the years has featured in leading magazines including Vogue, Interview Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar. He is also co-founder of the German based art photography Magazine, Zoo.  Jacqui Wald  of Camera Press says of the re-signing:  “Bryan brings a…

Sad news reached the PAN office over the weekend, Frank Selby, the founder of London based photo agency Rex Features, has died. We featured photos of Frank celebrating a very lively 100th Birthday last month. I contacted Frank’s son, John, who is currently in Australia and he sent us the…

Photo agency Shutterstock has sold it’s digital asset management business webdam to DAM dedicated company Bynder.  …

Huntley Film Archives visited Jakarta, Indonesia, earlier this year to meet archives, producers and broadcasters of the region. They were hosted by the Indonesian Heritage Society and the Indonesian Film Centre and have collected a special programme of archive footage from around Indonesia during the 20th century. Available for licensing…