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PAN friend press photographer Jonathan Buckmaster the creator of the Facebook page Snapperweb -dedicated to press photographers in the UK- emailed me this report on another well organised and attended Christmas party. Hi Will, The party went very well this year and was held at the same venue as last…

News Syndication, the photo agency of News UK looking after the photo assets of the The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun and the archives of the News Of The World and Today newspaper has become News Licensing – to more accurately reflect what they do. Look to the…

Great photo agency marketing work here from Mark and Charlotte at London based Offside Sports  – Charlotte explains ….”Every day I’ll be posting a video on Offside’s Instagram essentially comprising of me opening up a box. Each numbered box has a transparency in from a past World Cup (we’re running…

On the BBC: See how a grip handle from a 19040’s Graflex press camera inspired a designer on the first Star Wars realise the basis of the Lighsaber. Here…

The busiest, biggest and best stock photo industry event Fotofringe London is taking place again in 2018 in London on Tuesday 17 April. Expect the same relaxed and informative one day event for photo editors, researches, designers and creatives who want to meet and view millions of licence ready stock…

Getty Images just signed an exclusive global distribution deal for stock footage from Sony Pictures. The Sony Pictures Stock Footage numbers 160,000 clips originally shot under the Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Television banners. The library represents the world’s largest collection of stock footage produced by a…

London based rights managed photo library Lensmodern closed on 12 December. In an email sent to image buyers last week the owners announced the closing date citing industry pressure on rights managed image prices for the closure. …and now on the agency site. • They will continue to administer the licence arrangements…

The most simple marketing has again proved the rule when you have a specialist photo library – this cracking marketing email from performing arts photo library ArenaPal caught our eye this week  – great idea for a lightbox feature. click it to get backstage.…

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We have been on Instagram for a while now to test the water and just starting to update the feed with some news items and photos from our industry travels…its all about photos after all! Here PhotoArchiveNews…

Closes 8 December – thats tomorrow….     The UK Picture Editors Guild Awards in association with Shutterstock have been joined by industry giant Fujifilm to recognise young talent in a new award category ‘Student Photographer of the Year’. The challenge set to students is to show –  with five images –  their…

  Great start to the week here with a brand new industry partnership announced late last night –  The Mega Agency will now be distributing Mirrorpix photo content. The new distribution partnership will see Mega join Mirrorpix’s distribution network outside of the UK, syndicating live news content from titles such as the Daily Mirror,…

Photographer and PAN reader Cinzia D’Ambrosi is seeking funding for her latest humanitarian photo project Hate Hurts a documentary photographic project that exposes violence towards refugees and asylum seekers and the factors that contribute to its use. The purpose of the Hate Hurts project is to bring a wider perspective to the issue…

Getty Images are busy editing and uploading what’s left of the archive of photographer Jacques Lowe. Lowe began his photographic career in New York City – first as assistant to Arnold Newman, then making a name for himself in his own right as he freelanced for magazines. In 1960 he was…

This in from Camera Press: Camera Press were founded 70 years ago this month and the first images they circulated were of the wedding of the then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1947 by the society photographer Baron.  So seven decades on we were honoured to be allowed to…

A couple of days after our announcement that All Over Press owner IBL had sold the agency to TT News we had this in from All Over Press agency manager Kasper Jørgensen who has resigned all roles at the company. “Hi Will, After 18 years working in All Over Press and the…

Photo agency Scanpix in Denmark – which works closely with affiliates in Sweden and Norway, and with Reuters and AFP and EPA – has been sold to the Danish news agency Ritzaus Bureau A/S. The name of the new image agency will be ‘Ritzau Scanpix’. Ritzaus Bureau takes over all Scanpix…

In Sweden, TT News Agency has acquired established photo agency IBL who acquired All Over Press in 2015. TT say: ‘The picture segment of the TT News Agency is growing, and will through this acquisition be able to offer an even more comprehensive archive and service. The very best Swedish and foreign picture…