Shestock – Real Images, Real Life, Real Women

Sometimes responding to LinkedIn invitations result in delightful discoveries. That is how I met Karen Beard and learned of her new agency, SheStock. She took time from her launch for a brief Q&A and look at some of the  wonderful work of some of her contributing photographers. What was the defining moment that inspired the …


Open Content from the Getty (not THAT Getty)

The J. Paul Getty Museum, in Southern California is the home of a huge collection of art at its two locations. Earlier this month, they began offering high resolution downloads of thousands of images from the collection, free to use, modify, and publish through their Search Gateway. The Getty is following the lead of a …


Adobe’s Stormy Cloud

Guest post by Alisa Steck of Rocketroom For those in the creative community, Photoshop is a critical tool. It’s been traditionally sold with a perpetual license, enabling users the freedom to upgrade as needed (and as funds allowed). Adobe has recently made the decision to move to a subscription-based model for all future upgrades to …


Have You Seen This?

When researching content and writers for the blog, we bookmark interesting articles and sites that may not end up as an article here, but are definitely worthy of a mention… and your time. Here are a few recent finds: Although image theft is rampant on the web, the field of digital forensics is ever-evolving with …


She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World

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 …