As part of Member Appreciation week last week, we caught up with a few of our longest standing members to find out what their biggest accomplishments have been in the past 9 years, and how changes in the industry have affected them personally, their caree
These photographers, including Chip Litherland, Brad Mangin and Ami Vitale are continuing to amaze us, churning out fantastic work and staying on top of their game.
This month we’re thrilled to unveil the new website of one our favorite travel photographers: Ken Kaminesky. While he’s not new to PhotoShelter — Ken’s been selling stock via a PhotoShelter site since 2010 — a few months back he was looking to update his
A sense of wonder and rampant curiosity are vital as is a passion for wanting to see awesome places and experience new things. You don’t get into this field for the money but rather for the things that enrich your soul.
The value of a company dealing with photography is not in its ability to attract a large amount of content – that’s the easy part- but rather in its ability to add value to the content.
The next big frontier for anyone involved with photography online is content curation. The value of a company dealing with photography is not in its ability to attract a large amount of content – that is the easy part- but rather in its ability to create value to the content by carefully and appropriately curating it.
Editorial rates are notoriously low and many publications haven’t increased the payment to photographers in decades. John Harrington, author of More Best Business Practices for Photographers, shared some tips he uses to increase his assignment fees. Just
Just don’t call it a “day rate” because John believes that is misleads the client into thinking that they are paying you on an hourly basis rather than on your work product
the fact that publishing has been in contraction for quite some time has displaced many image licensors, but to add insult to injury the advertisers are showing attrition as well.
David Guttenfelder, Lynn Johnson, Cory Richards, and Brian Skerry—each with an equally strong passion for the different subjects they cover—have been named as the members of this inaugural group
You should back photographers’ good ideas with conviction and shield them from misguided suggestions: Often, something that sounds intelligent doesn’t look good in photographs. Intelligent thoughts are often better in the mind’s eye than in the camera.
The battle of the ephemeral photo is heating up. At stake is the control of the 500 + million photos exchanged daily on Snapchat, more than Facebook and Instagram combined.
What ephemeral offers and that is extremely appealing to brands and advertising is it high level of engagement. Since the photo disappears forever after 10 seconds, you have to pay attention to it.
I’ve known Richard Kelly and Judy Herrmann for several years now through the ASMP and different panels and events I’ve been a part of, so when I heard from Richard that they were launching a new educational series for photographers I was intrigued. I thin
I’ve known Richard Kelly and Judy Herrmann for several years now through the ASMP and different panels and events I’ve been a part of, so when I heard from Richard that they were launching a new educational series for photographers I was intrigued. I think they are both excellent people, so I simply asked them to tell us all about it and you can decide if it’s something you want to check out.
Here’s what the @pdnonline folks are checking out this week on Instagram. Cengiz Yar, Jr @burndiary Burn, the online magazine for emerging photographers founded by David Alan Harvey, has been using Instagram to post photo essays: one photographer sharing
Social Media opened our eyes to the reality that there is a massive talent pool of photographers that have not chosen the path of going pros. They enjoy taking and sharing photos just for the pleasure while they go on paying for their lives with other, probably more lucrative, occupations.
During a 67-hour window leading up to its 67th annual general meeting, the collective will be selling 6″x6″prints published on the Magnum Photos Instagram feed. “Any image with the hashtag #AGMSquares will be available for purchase for $100,” says the agency.
We’re all Karl Ove Knausgaard now. Or rather, the Norwegian author has elevated the obsession with our own lives that we appear to have developed at some stage, instigated or enabled by the internet, in particular so-called social media
In the past nine months, criticism of Richardson has moved from the periphery to a more central and dividing place, where one is expected to take a stand for or against him
I didn’t go to Parsons’ graduation ceremony last month, but people tell me I missed a remarkable commencement speech delivered by photographer Ryan McGinley.
I photographed every little thing—all my food, doorways covered in graffiti, and my friends and roommates. I tortured my first boyfriend, Marc, by capturing each moment of our relationship. I was obsessed with documenting my life. So that’s my advice to you: Find something to be obsessed with, and then obsess over it.
Amanda Maddox of the Getty Museum, Josef Koudelka, and Matt Witkovsky of the AIC on the dais. Words and photos by Dan Gorman I attended the opening of the Josef Koudelka exhibit at AIC last week. I walked through the…
Koudelka had a number of interesting things to say (all heavily paraphrased here, as I didn’t try take notes during the event, but scribbled down the bits that lingered in memory immediately afterward):
When I decided to start a satirical blog featuring a fake version of Canon USA’s Chuck Westfall back in September 2008, I never expected that it would have gotten the exposure it eventually did.
When I decided to start a satirical blog featuring a fake version of Canon USA’s Chuck Westfall back in September 2008, I never expected that it would have gotten the exposure it eventually did. But a few months later, Canon Inc.’s lawyers tried to shut down the blog and get behind the identity of the author. Then all of a sudden a small blog that hardly anyone knew existed at that time became something much bigger.
This week on #LightBoxFF, TIME speaks with French artist JR (@jr), popular for his large-scale, black-and-white portraits of people which he’s been pasting on walls around the world for the past decade
A New Kind of Explorer: The Photography Fellows
A Day to Remember in the Ansel Adams Wilderness
