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The Photo Agency stamp

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Update: NEW – Photo agency stationary Update: I am now extending this search to include Photo Agency Stamps worldwide… Photo agency stamps were the email and website details of the pre…

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September 1, 2020

Get your photo print collection scanned for free

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Are you are looking at a basement full of photo prints which could be added to your digital sales site? … then help is here. The only thing to consider…

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July 6, 2020

PPHP specially selected by The British Library

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

I didn’t make much noise of this when we were selected (in 2012! ) but it’s becoming more important now I am looking for real support through cash funding for…

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June 2, 2020

How news pictures reached newspapers

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Over the last ten years we have been building stories from ex-photographers and photo agency staff explaining what they did in the industry – their day job  – how it…

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May 26, 2020

Searching for an historic photograph?

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

If you are trying to locate a particular image you have seen in a book or poster and have exhausted the Google and Ebay searches then we can help. A…

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May 22, 2020

Info please: Wessex Press Agency

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

This in from an author trying to clear copyright on a Wessex Press Agency photo taken in 1973: The image shows police detectives Nigel Liiley and Adam Acworth leaving court…

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May 9, 2020

Searching for: Dutch photographer Carel Blazer photo prints

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

This just in from a PPHP reader on 13 March 2020 Dear colleague, In 1937 Dutch photographer Carel Blazer went to the Spanish Civil War on the side of the…

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March 13, 2020

Found! Info please: Provincial Press. Southport, Lancashire

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

First published 10 Feb 2020: A PPHP reader is trying to find what happened to the Provincial Press Agency Southport, Lancashire. The agency supplied sport pictures to newspapers and magazines in…

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February 10, 2020

Searching For: Home Counties Press (based Hammersmith, London)

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

A PPHP reader is searching for the owner of Home Counties Press 241/246 King Street London W.6. The photo print they have is dated 1945. Answers on an email please…

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February 3, 2020

Portman Press Bournemouth

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

One of the most requested ‘lost photo agency’ is Portman Press – the agency mainly covered public events and homes – they shot middle class weddings and rooms for the…

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January 23, 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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