We could stand for more recognition of those papers that largely ignored the perpetrator in favor of elevating the victims and affirming existing bonds.
The point of the public domain is that anyone can do anything with it, including sell it, so in a way, it makes sense that the Corbis image-library is full of high-priced Library of Congress images…
DxO Labs, the French software company known for photo software and gear tests, made a huge announcement today by unveiling a camera of its own. Called the
A couple weeks ago I wrote about Bellingcat’s efforts to learn more about wars through social media images, satellite imagery, and other sources. Now, Vice News have just released a 23-minute piece (embedded above) by Simon Ostrovsky tracking down a single Russian soldier through some of his social media posts from Ukraine. This provides evidence that Russian soldiers have been fighting in Ukraine, especially in the critical Battle of Debaltseve in January and February of this year.
Last week, TIME published a photo story (Besieged by ISIS: Photographs From Inside the Syrian City of Deir ez-Zor) that raises concerns for me about objectivity. It’s hard to see the seventeen images or the words as doing more than serving the propaganda aims of the Assad government, making me further wonder if the sympathy for the Syrian government and the Syrian Army wasn’t, at least tacitly, the price of access.
This video shows the winners and finalists’ portfolios for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015. Thousands of entries were received from all over the world. The video and awards were presented on July 8 during Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie p
Self-publishing opportunities abound, as we report in a feature story that’s now available at PDNonline.com, called “Are Visual Storytelling Platforms a Good Thing for Photographers?” We interviewed photographers about how they’ve benefitted (or not) from
With the competition among many new platforms comes a bit of confusion about how the sites differ from one another, and what audiences they serve. And there are questions about their actual value: How much are photographers really benefiting? By self-publishing, do photographers attract clients and opportunities? Or are they just providing free content to platform owners, who will reap most of the revenue benefits if and when the owners figure out how to monetize the sites?
Being a photographer in the digital age presents a number of excellent advantages along with a collection of new concerns. Sharing your images with the
I find it very interesting that a company like Adobe has chosen a microstock model to license images. For a company that has made much of its glory thanks to pro photographers via Photoshop, it is ironic that they chose the lowest pricing point, almost as a slap in their faces. In effect, there has been no backlash from the pro-photographers community so I guess it doesn’t matter