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World Champion week for sporting heroes in the Photolink Studios

Our team in the Photolink Studios have seen their fair share of sports personalities over the last few months, but last week definitely took the year's medal for breadth of sporting talent.

World champion darts supremo Adrian Lewis turned target for sports photographer Gary Prior. Matija Nastastic was on club duty for Man City, while Marouane Fellaini (Everton)...

BANK kicks off the summer with a sun-soaked S13 campaign

Hopefully this sunny selection of images from the latest BANK campaign will help kickstart the British summer in time for the end of the month...

Failing that, the campaign (shot on location in Ibiza by Jamie Rowan and now live nationwide) should bring a little sunshine to a billboard near you!

Art direction and shoot production, as ever, by...

Shooting gets underway on the latest national campaigns for Regis UK

Studio One in the Photolink Studios was once again humming to the sound of hairdryers, clippers and scissor snips as Regis UK got shooting their latest campaigns for salon brands Regis Salon and Supercuts.

Helped by an expert photographic team, curated by our production team and led by fashion photographers David Woollacott and Rob Rusling, Regis UK...

Design Futures students at University of Salford given second year challenge

Last week, as part of the on-going creative mentorship programme we’ve been running with the School of Art & Media at the University of Salford, we sent a delegation across the water to see how work was progressing on the ‘real world’ brief we set them back in April.

The fifth brief of its kind given to Fashion Design...

Gospel’s answer to X-Factor raising the rafters in the Photolink Studios!

Time2Shine, the UK’s no.1 gospel talent search, will be filming its first ever Manchester audition in the Photolink Studios this month.

The series, which adopts an X Factor-style format with knockout auditions and contestant Boot Camps, will air on Sky later this year, culminating in a live final at Indig02 in London’s O2 arena where contestants will compete for...

Making a design difference for the homeless

The next time you pass the medieval magnificence of Manchester Cathedral take a closer look at the small building on the Victoria Street side of its main entrance. Beside its large wooden door you’ll see a small brass plaque. Now take a closer look and you’ll find The Booth Centre.

This is exactly how Photolink designer Lee Henderson discovered the centre...

Mayday, mayday – 25% off studio hire every day this May!

Can you think of a better way to say turrah to the longest winter anyone can remember? Nope, nor can we. So why not take advantage of our cockles warming studio hire discount this May?

Open to anyone who books one of our five fantastic studios before the end of May, the discount applies to the standard studio hire...

Scenes from another Ardwick

We recently uncovered these fantastic images of how Ardwick - the Manchester district where Photolink has lived for over 35 years - used to look.

The shots are part of a stunning archive of over 80,000 images, dating from the eighteenth century to the present day, in the Manchester Local Image Collection. They feature the Georgian building we now...

The signs are clear… BANK’s SS13 collection is here!

If you think the Canadians have got it tough shooting moose (meese?) when the mercury drops, spare a thought for our very own ‘Shooter from St Helens’ Paul Haycock who braved a bitterly cold Siberian wind to capture the latest BANK SS13 campaign billboards in the wild.

Featuring imagery we produced, art directed and shot in creative partnership with multichannel fashion...