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Searching for: Photographer Frank Gray – Dublin 1989 image set

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Do you know where Frank Gray is – could be Frank (James?) Gray ? – this in from a friend: ‘I have been searching for a photographer from Scotland, Frank Gray….

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June 4, 2021

Photo search service: Complete your company photo archive

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

We create or compliment your company history archives with news and advertising images you may never have seen! …all this through our direct connection with over 600 commercial photo agencies,…

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May 2, 2021

Press Photographer Bryn Campbell – working at UPPA in 1958

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

This UPPA memory from photographer Bryn Campbell for the Press Photo History Project. In 1958, I started work at Universal Pictorial Press, a small agency just around the corner from…

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April 26, 2021

Searching For: Commercial darkroom 1960’s 70’s or earlier

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Do you know of a commercial darkroom facility, still in it’s original form, at a newspaper or media owner or photo agency anywhere in the UK dating back to the…

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March 2, 2021

Press photography – Fleet Street on film

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Here are few interesting and factual films and documentary’s which include press photography in Fleet Street – enjoy!   The British Council film Picture Magazines Publishing a News Magazines ThoughtMaybe…

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February 16, 2021

Info please: ‘ N.P.’ News Photos of 146 Fleet Street,

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

‘ N.P.’ News Photos of 146 Fleet Street,London EC4 operated in the 1920’s / 30’s.   A request to the PPHP reads: Dear Sir I have a photograph taken of my…

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December 21, 2020

Ernest W. J.Atkins – ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ photographer

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

This in from the Ernest’s Grandson: Hi Will, My grandfather Ernest W. J.Atkins, born in 1892 just outside of London. In 1908, at the age of 16, he shot photographs…

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December 21, 2020

James Gray – Fleet St News Photographer dies aged 81

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

From our sister site PhotoArchiveNews.com: Sad news in this morning. News photographer James Gray died on Saturday 7 November 2020. He was 81 years old and was living in Brandon…

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November 13, 2020

News photographer Bernard Hess Through the Lens: A Life in News

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Through the Lens: A Life in News’ features 36 remarkable pictures from the career of news photographer Bernard “Bunny” Hess – the Chief Photographer at the Birmingham Evening Mail 1940’s…

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November 13, 2020

Research for licensing: 17 historical people 1789 – 1984

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Person Years Details Fanny Eaton 1835-1925 Model and muse to pre Raphaelite artists, whose paintings challenged the London art scene’s perception of beauty. Alice Kinloch 1852-1915 Unified voices of the…

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October 30, 2020
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Image requests

We provide a copyright search service connecting image license requests with image owners through our network of contacts at newspaper archives and commercial photo libraries.

The Project

We are mapping the lives and whereabouts of press photo agencies and newspaper photographers based in and around Fleet Street and the UK from 1904 - 1995, with a long term plan to map all press photo agencies throughout the world.

Why is it important?

At the turn of the 20th century, there was vast growth in press agencies and photographers due to the massive thirst for images in newspapers. Many are still in existence but others have been sold, absorbed or simply disappeared, effectively leaving gaps in the history of this industry… many agency offices were bombed during the WWII London Blitz resulting negative and print files being water damage from the hoses quenching the fires …most archives were in the building basements.

The Memories

The Press Photo History Project is building a ‘family tree’, which is helping to find the original owners of content. Eventually this would also provide an educational resource centred on the history of press photography. Starting with the Mapping of Fleet Street, this aims to include an index to photo agencies working in and around the ‘street’ and photographers memories of working lives.

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