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We knew who to call… The M(umbai) Team!

In 2007 a crack commando unit comprising Photolink founder David Walter and managing director Jayne Riley travelled to Mumbai on a mission to create a commercial photographic studio big enough to deliver India’s first large-scale home shopping catalogue.

The men they enlisted on the ground were led by photographer Jignesh ‘JJ’ Jhaveri and art director Sydney Vaz. The team would quickly...

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The Intern Interview

Hi, my name's… Andy Ruscoe

I've just finished studying at... the University of Liverpool where I studied English Literature and Psychology.

In three words I’d say I am… chatty, caring and a fun-loving (cheeky hyphen to qualify as three words).

You would never have guessed… that I was a competitive cheerleader, taking part in competitions all over the country and acting as...

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Note to self? Discover something new!

Last week I headed over to the Note To Self Creative Consortium at Manchester’s Cornerhouse to see a couple of talks along the general theme of ‘Discovery’. Which, as a professional social media geek (that's an official title), was immediately appealing.

Why? I’m curious and I like discovering things. I like to find new stuff and I like to...

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6-a-side showdown for Children in Need

When the annual fancy dress theme for Children in Need was announced earlier this week, twelve of Photolink's manliest men quietly screamed inside. Caught between a sartorial rock (a Tart) and a hard and holy place (a Vicar), panic started to set in.

With dreams of crafting a pair of Wolverine claws or a Batman mask out of foam and sticky...

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Team LBD and the winning WeightWatchers girls

Our online fashion brand LittleBlackDress.co.uk recently teamed up with WeightWatchers magazine to make-over and shoot five lovely ladies who've achieved their perfect figure in record time on the diet.

Carol Hayden, Alison Chadwick, Andria Backhaus, Aline Nixon and Paula Scott were the lucky winners of a nationwide hunt to find a group of super slimmers. Their prize? Christmas come early...

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Making Caroline Flack the face of Regis

There's been great excitement on the high street and in the press after client Regis Salon revealed Caroline Flack as the new face of the brand

Taking the baton from pixie-haired Big Brother's Little Brother presenter Emma Willis, Miss Flack will feature across all the brand's in-store, online and press marketing over the next few months looking gorgeous and, of course,...

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Cold spell in the garden

There were leaves. It was lunchtime. Creative head Mike Griffiths was on the loose. The pictures say it all...

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Climescape launches into the digital landscape

It might not be the rainiest place in England, but evergreen Ardwick Green in Manchester, where we call home, is not a million miles away. Owing to this unique geographical positioning, we’re therefore not only well accustomed to a constant threat of rain, we're pretty well prepared when it gets physical.

So you could say we were 'in the zone'...

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Question and answer time with Salford Uni students

Nothing brings Photolink to life like a Gallery full of impressionable minds. So when a group of 20 students from the University of Salford’s School of Art and Design arrived on Wednesday to find out more about the way we work, key Photolink figures sprung into a different sort of action to a deliver brief overview of the roles they...

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Second to one at last night’s NABS Music Quiz

Last night it was the annual NABS Manchester Music Quiz and we hosted teams from across the city's creative, digital and marketing landscape, including BJL, Code Computerlove, Condé Nast, TBWA Manchester, Delineo and True North in our Gallery. The final team tally came to twelve including Photolink's team Quizzard™ (we had a busy day...) and competition was civil yet fierce.

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