The Photo as Weapon
Photography has been used in many ways throughout its history: as documentation, propaganda, keepsake, etc. But never has it been so frequently used as a…
Opinion
Why I Come to Work Every Day
Inc. Magazine just named PhotoShelter one of the 5,000 fastest growing companies in the United States. This is our first time appearing on the Inc.…
Put the Camera Down: Photography & Social Proof
At any tourist spot, restaurant, or concert nowadays, you're bound to witness a sea of smartphones & selfie sticks. Everyday, millions of photos are captured…
The Simple Fix for Vertical Videos
There’s been a lot of news coverage and editorializing about vertical video. It’s become such a scourge that PSAs have been created to stop the…
Bruce Gilden & the Absence of Empathy
I used to believe that photojournalism represented a platonic ideal of veracity, but this naïve notion has eroded. The cause of this loss of innocence isn’t limited…
I Want this iPhone Camera Attachment to Succeed, But it Won’t
When Sony announced the QX-100, I jumped on Amazon and pre-ordered it immediately. It seemed to solve the most obvious problems I had with smartphone…
What I’ve Learned from 10 Years of Blogging
Ten years ago, PhotoShelter launched our website product to help photographers store, distribute and sell photography. Concurrent with that launch, I started blogging on the mundane…
Photography, Integrity and Humans of New York
Bag News Editor-at-Large, Meg Handler, wrote an insightful piece on the "gay schoolboy" photo taken by Brandon Stanton and featured on the ever-popular Humans of New…
Will the Big Meh Lead to an Artistic Renaissance?
On the Op/Ed pages of The New York Times, Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman described "The Big Meh" – the productivity paradox whereby the incredible technological development…