Photo by Kate&Camilla.

Welcome to Shoot! The Blog. I am going to be taking the
reins of this thing. I’m Rachel Hulin, and I’ve been primarily a photo editor
for the past several years. Most notably, I worked at Rolling Stone online and
Nerve.com. I’m also a photographer, which is, of course, the refrain of so many
PEs. I worked at the International Center of Photography for several years
after grad school before moving on to editing.

I am standing on a bottle of Prosecco in my bio picture. This is important
because 1. It’s a metaphor for how seriously I intend to take myself and 2. I
am defying gravity in homage to the great Alec Soth blog contest Jump the Sandwich (see winning image below). Jump
the Sandwich invited photographers to become part of a community, and that’s
what we’re after here. This blog aims to unite the fragmented groups of people
involved with commercial photography. PhotoShelter is a stock site and an
archive, designed to give market power back to photographers. It’s an exciting and
innovative platform, and it’s making stock fresh again. You can read all about
it here.

This blog will report on a
cross-section of what’s going on in the industry every day. I’ll check in with
photographers on location, wrest secrets out of art buyers, see who’s buying
what at the local photo bookstore, and post pictures I love. Each month we’ll
have a range of contributors, and we’ll give you a peek up front to see who
we’re talking with (see following post with cutting-edge floating heads). We
welcome audience participation, so let us know who you’d like to see
interviewed, or which photographer has piqued your interest. Hate those Bert
Stern Lohan pics? I do too! But I’m not going to get naked like Michael Musto to show you. Yet.

The winning image from Jump the Sandwich, shot by Marisa
Long and Andy McMillan. This
picture kicks so much ass. What’s behind that blanket?!

 

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