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Update: 17 Feb: PAN asked Corbis for pricing details on the subscription packages – here is their reply: ‘To answer your question from yesterday, Corbis’ multi-tiered subscription offering is designed to allow customers to get the right content package at the right price, satisfying their content needs while meeting their…

Content from Paris based photo agency donkeysoho is now being represented exclusively by boutique creative image agency plainpicture. donkeysoho was founded as a photographer collective and is relatively unknown outside France. plainpicture say ‘The artistic images from donkeysoho show snapshots and personal glimpses into seemingly familiar everyday life situations. The…

SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP Photographer: Eddie Keogh Dates: 23-26 of May 2012 Place: Studio Nicolas Spinosa, Barcelona eyesinprogress.com…

Feb 10th: Supreme aerial photographer and stock photo agency owner Jason Hawkes has been shooting stock photos 1500ft above London today – He just uploaded this shot of dog walkers out early this morning…. looking forward to seeing the full edit on the site soon Jason! UPDATED 15 Feb –…

Contact marketing list experts Bikini Lists are offering free searches across their massive picture buying contacts database. The search facility available through the Bikini Lists Facebook page allows you to search company sectors within the database by keyword ( Design, Advertising + + ) you then get the full company…

London based photo library Mary Evans have made available a rare and unusual photograph (above) of ill-fated passenger liner, RMS Titanic he photograph shows the ship alongside its sister vessel, RMS Olympic, in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland in March 1912. The Olympic, on the right of…

UK based photo library Lebrecht Music & Arts have created bespoke anniversary collages designed by their in-house graphic artists for the major music and literary anniversaries of 2012. Literary figures include: Lewis Carrol, JM Barrie, Charles Dickens, and Arthur Schnitzler. Music anniversaries include: Claude Debussy, Jules Massenet, Carl Orff, Maurice…

Photographic agent John Hillelson owner of the John Hillelson Agency died Monday 13th February in hospital. John was the London Agent for photo agency Magnum from 1958 until 1987 when Magnum opened a London office. He worked closely the agency’s founding members and remained in close contact with them until…

UK based photo agency Rex Features will be sponsoring the CEPIC Congress 2012 Welcome Reception at The Truman Brewery in London on Tuesday 15th May 2012. CEPIC’s President, Christina Vaughan commented: “It is an honour to have Rex’s support in London to welcome our guests to one of the most…

–pan exclusive–if you use this article please credit and link back to www.photoarchivenews.com Tues 14 feb: PAN reader David Herrod writes: My connection with Imagestate goes back to when it was called Images. The transition to Imagestate went smoothly. However, recent events have left me high and dry. No notice…

14 Feb 2012: Reports coming in suggest the founder of phototime Jun Chen LI has left the company and is pursuing other opportunities. More about Jun Chen LI here – (open in Chrome browser to translate option) Update 13 Feb 2012: Reports coming in via email suggest Phototime may be…

Updated Feb 14 2012: Cassie Marsden announcement: It is with great sadness that I have to announce the sudden death of Simon. I will continue to run the Marsden Archive as usual, and we will reopen for business on Wed 22nd Feb. Sales of limited edition prints and signed properties…

Vogue publisher Condé Nast are online with a company time-line including the first Vogue full colour photo cover… more details and the link at our Press Photo History Project…

Hearst-Rodale UK (Nat Mags) has launching the first edition of Women’s Health in the UK. ‘Women’s Health is a completely unique offering in the women’s market, pioneering health and fitness as a lifestyle, with a fresh approach to psychology, sex, relationships, fashion, beauty and celebrity. Women’s Health emulates the ethos…

Whitney Houston’s Last Appearance? LA based photo agency Splash are online with a video of what appears to be Whitney Houston’s last public appearance shot two days ago as she made her way to her car after a night out. They say: ‘In this video taken on the night of…

6.00am UK: Rex Features in the UK, dpa Picture Alliance in Germany and AP Images are first up with time-line photo galleries Whitney Houston who died in Los Angeles yesterday. Click on the agency page shots above to visit the gallery.…

Journalist Jonathan Kent has written an account of his negotiations with a couple of UK newspapers after they ‘lifted’ an image from his blog. …’This week a couple of newspapers ‘borrowed’ a photo of Mary-Ann Ochota from this site without asking. Mary Ann got caught up in a bit of…

Guest Editor at the Getty Images blog rock photographer Janette Beckman waxes nostalgic. ‘Londoner Janette Beckman began her career at the dawn of punk rock working for The Face and Melody Maker. She shot bands from The Clash to The Specials as well as three Police album covers. We asked…