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March 8, 2018

Rex Features photo agency founder Frank Selby dies aged 100

By Herbie Knott

Frank Selby, the founder of Rex Features photographic agency, has died aged 100.

Selby was born Ferenc Salusinszky on 12 January 1918, in Budapest, Hungary, at a time when his father, Imre, was an established journalist at Pesti Naplót – the first Hungarian newspaper to feature photographs.

As Frank grew up so did the newspaper group. New titles followed and breakfast talk at home was dominated by circulation figures.

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