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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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12 Dec.

Weather pictures always make the news

Man has always been a curious creature, that’s the main reason the news industry operates, to feed that curiosity. More often than not, weather phenomena tend to be on the top of the list of picture editors and news-gatherers alike, but it is rarely an easy task. Whether a photograph can be taken or not,...

23 Jun.

Summer solstice in Swansea Wales UK

News photography is a form of historical record-keeping and documenting celestial events certainly is a major event. I am not strictly speaking about astro-photography, after all, I am well into press and editorial photography. Having to photograph this year’s summer solstice in Swansea Bay certainly involved a very early start to the day and some...