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Exploring Extreme Climates with Maria Sahai
Maria Sahai’s work makes you want to get a credit card with better travel miles. A Fujifilm-X photographer and f-stop gear ambassador, she’s best known for images of the frozen Arctic in places like Greenland, Norway, Iceland and Svalbard Archipelago.As…
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Instagram Hashtags for Food Photographers
Earlier this year we released The 2019 Photographer's Guide to Instagram Hashtags in partnership with Feature Shoot. The guide includes curated lists of some of the best searchable and submittable hashtags for professional photographers across a wide range of categories…
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A Final Review of the Leica Q: 3.5 Years in the Making
If there’s a fundamental flaw with product reviews, it’s the typically short duration that reviewers have with the item before hitting a publishing deadline or needing to return the product to the manufacturer. With rapid product refreshes, the lifetime of…
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Can Viewing Photos Be Hazardous to Your Health?
Facebook's content moderators have to look at some awful images and video to protect the rest of us from graphic content. Casey Newton at The Verge reports that many of these $15/hour contract workers have suffered PTSD or secondary PTSD…
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Why Can’t We Celebrate An Image Without Snark?
I've read The Onion headlines and McSweeney's pieces that have knocked me off my chair. I can still remember staying up late during high school to watch Saturday Night Live sketches like "Change Bank," or Dave Chapelle's Killing Me Softly…
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December 19, 2018

Consider the Photo Contest Jury

We recently launched the PhotoShelter Guide to Photo Contests 2019 – our annual look at contests around the world that we think are worth your…

December 18, 2018

New Guide! The 2019 Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests

We’ve partnered with the World Photography Organisation for The 2019 Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests, one of our biggest guides of the year. It’s time…

December 18, 2018

Rwanda’s “Camera Kids” Became Professional Photographers and You Can Help

In 2000, photographer and theater producer David Jiranek created the non-profit Through the Eyes of Children and partnered with the Imbabazi Orphanage in Rwanda to teach…

December 10, 2018

Announcing #shotoftheyear: a Celebration of Our Members’ Favorite Snaps from 2018

2018 has had no shortage of photo-worthy moments. This year we wanted to celebrate our members with something a little different, so we asked them…

November 20, 2018

Does This Rhino Drone Video Help or Hurt Conservation?

22-year old professional drone racing pilot Johnny Schaer has built a strong social media following on Instagram and YouTube with visually stunning video capture from…

November 17, 2018

SquareSpace is Officially Screwing Photographers

Disclosure: PhotoShelter builds websites for photographers Imagine a website that convinces its users to upload free content and builds social signals (e.g. likes and view…

November 15, 2018

Pro Photographers Should Pay Attention to the Google Pixel 3

Google has officially launched its incredible "Night Sight" feature on the Pixel 3 camera app. Computational photography pioneer and Google Distinguished Engineer Marc Levoy co-wrote…

November 13, 2018

The Voting Selfie as Social Proof

For much of its history, photography has been seen as a reflection of reality. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Photography is distinguished by its immediacy, its…

November 6, 2018

Social Media is Ruining Photography

In the U.S. and most industrialized nations, we have a collective infatuation with technology but a poor understanding of its effects – both intended and…

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