User:Malcolm Collins/sandbox

Malcolm Collins (born 1969) is a Web developer from Buckinghamshire in the Uk, and works for Arkanoid Web Designs a Web Design company that creates e-commerce and business websites. He is not the Welsh Boxer of the same name.

Career
Studied Graphic Design in the early nineties, then Photography at Bournville Art College in Birmingham.

Malcolm Collins worked within the Picture Industry working for a Picture Agency in London called Retna Pictures. This was when digital photography was very much in its infancy, and agencies still supplied clients with transparencies and prints.

In 2003 he moved to Sydney, Australia and worked for a boutique Photo Agency called Headpress, specialising in Celebrity Portraiture.

After a move back to the U.K. in early 2006, he joined Mirrorpix, the Syndication arm of Mirror Group Newspapers, representing The Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and group’s regional newspaper titles. He joined the then joined News International, now ‘News U.K.’  representing The Times, Sunday Times, The Sun, and defunct News of the World Newspaper, leaving the company in 2013 to set up Arkanoid Web Designs.

Syndication
In Febuary 2011 while working for News International Syndication, a video Exclusive from Paris-based citizen journalism site Citizenside was sold to the Sun Newspaper and syndicated throughout the world by the department. Dior announced they had suspended Galliano following his arrest over an alleged anti-Jewish tirade in a Paris bar. In the video a drunk Galliano, seated at a café table, insults a group of Italian women and declares "I love Hitler... People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers would all be fucking gassed." This incident happened just before the Paris Fashion Week for Autumn/Winter 2011-12.