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At the 2022 AP Awards we celebrated a fantastic year in photography, including the people in our industry who have inspired so many

Major photo retailers. including MPB, Wex and Park, look back on the highs and lows of 2021 and look forward to 2022

When, aged 23, Steve Brown fell from a balcony and dislocated a neck vertebra, squashing the spinal cord, he couldn’t have dreamed he would end up presenting TV shows. The accident left him with little or no level of movement below the breastbone, but he was determined not to be defined by his injury.  After taking up wheelchair rugby he was asked to commentate on the Invictus Games for the BBC, then worked for Channel 4 at the Rio Paralympics and has since presented on The One Show and Coun...

AP Awards 2021: The Good Service Awards February 19, 2021 Announcing last year’s Good Service Award winners last February we said that 2019 had been the toughest year on record for retailers. A certain virus must have been sniggering in the wings at that, knowing what it had in store for us in 2020. Retailers have had to contend not only with the continuing decline of both camera sales and bricks and mortar retailing, but a whole new set of problems: reduced footfall due to social distancing;...

Will Brexit make it harder to buy photo gear from the EU? January 7, 2021 Now Brexit has finally happened, concern has been expressed that the new trading arrangements could make it more difficult and expensive for photographic dealers to sell equipment to UK-based buyers. Paul O’Sullivan, for example, has a small business importing Minox specialist cameras and other optical equipment from Germany. “Some photographic shops in Germany and Holland have now stopped supplying to the UK, because...