Earlier this week, Getty and Leanin.org announced a partnership whereby Getty donates 10% of license fees to LeanIn.org from sales of this collection: This got us thinking and we wondered about sources of imagery of women, so we compiled a list of resources that we know of and use. When looking for dynamic and diverse …
Michael Masterson and I were speaking about the history of our industry. Again and again, one name came up as a leader and advocate for all things stock photography. And as a result, I asked Michael to interview Cathy Aron. Cathy Aron has been the Executive Director of PACA, the Digital Licensing Media Association, since …
Anna Fey shares some tips: When you call a photographer or agency for an image, it’s important to really share with them that for which you are looking. We are inclined to say that we just want this picture of a red widget. If that is all you tell the seller, you are probably selling …
We all tend to re-visit certain books movies over and over as they inspire and reinforce something essential for us. Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” and John Sayle’s “The Secret of Roan Inish” are on my list. Joseph Gamble does the same with photo books and shares his top five: There are many great photography books …
Contributed by Ellen Herbert with permission from Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Thumbing through the July/August issue of Intelligent Life, I was stopped in my tracks when I came upon a powerful image by artist/photographer Newsha Tavakolian, titled “Don’t Forget This Is Not You (for Sahar Lotfi).” The image is one of a set of …
reposted from http://fstoppers.com, with permission from Joseph Gamble NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has relayed back images of the Earth and moon from 900 million miles away. The images, taken in a series of photos on July 19th as Saturn was backlit by the sun, portray the blue planet as a diminutive blip in a vast dark …
Guest post by Angelika Pirkl, posted with permission of akg-images. It is not every day that I receive an email with the somewhat surprising opening line “Hello, I am a photographer and writer who specializes in the cultural reception of death”. My attention was instantly grabbed. Staring out at me from my computer screen were …
Guest post by Jain Lemos For Angel Wynn, moving from Sun Valley, Idaho to Santa Fe, New Mexico opened up doors of abundance for her art and agency. Walking into Angel Wynn’s studio home on Canyon Drive in Santa Fe, the air seems to shift and all of a sudden, you are transported into a …
In Toronto or environs on May 16th? Clear your calendar and reserve your space now for Visual Connections Toronto and for the morning Copyright and Clearance session featuring top experts in North America who can answer your questions and discuss copyright, clearances, orphan works and more. From 10am to noon, the panel will be held …
Photographer Jon Crispin first saw the abandoned Willard Asylum in the early ‘80s. Abandoned and boarded up, it appealed to his lifelong compulsion for “entering places where I shouldn’t have been.” This compulsion led to a two-year project funded by the New York State Council for Arts to photograph 19th Century New York State Asylums: …