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Our best news pictures for 2021

December 30th 2021

It wasn’t just the Covid-19 pandemic that made the news, there were severe floods, politics, gigs, a riot, a double-decker bus and a man who loves baked beans…

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Our best pictures for 2020

January 1st 2021

2020 marks 12 years since Athena Picture Agency was founded, we worked through 2020 to produce yet another portfolio of pictures. Since March, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic bacame in itself a news category of its own which was enough for us to produce a blog of our coverage. Having gone through hundreds of images, these...

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4 Dec.

Photographing the First Minister for Wales, Carwyn Jones

News photography can be very rewarding at times and having to photograph a Head of State -although by no means easy- can be very fulfilling as an experience. Time is at a premium and photographers are rarely allowed more than a few minutes. Throughout my career though I have been given quite a few opportunities...