Giggster Wednesday December 29, 2021
With the rise of the social media age, both traditional photographers and modern artists have grown their Instagram presence, and some photographers could now make more money from Instagram posts than from selling prints. So notes film location finder Giggster, which has issued a new report estimating how much top-performing Instagram photographers earn from sponsored content. Giggster compiled its set of photographers using lists from three separate sources and ran the photographers through Influencer Marketing Hub’s “Instagram Influencer Earnings Calculator,” notes PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Wednesday December 29, 2021
If 2020 was the year of wedding-postponement misery, 2021 was the year of sweet, sweet delayed gratification, notes The Washington Post, which talks with Michael Cassara, a wedding and lifestyle photographer based on Long Island, about shooting amid social distancing requirements (you should make it look as normal as you possibly can), dodging coronavirus droplets in big crowds (a strategy that worked until it didn’t) and pulling way more “doubleheader” weekends than usual. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Wednesday December 29, 2021
A group of 55 media organizations and advocates for press freedom have sent a letter urging the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol to withdraw a subpoena to a photojournalist’s phone records, notes PetaPixel. Photojournalist Amy Harris filed a lawsuit on December 16 against the Congressional Committee to block access to her records that are included in a subpoena that was served to Verizon. Fox News, CNN, Vox Media, BuzzFeed, The New York Times, the LA Times, and the Washington Post are among others have urged the Select Committee to withdraw the subpoena for Harris’s phone records. Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Wednesday December 29, 2021
When is a photo-sharing app not a photo-sharing app? When it's 2021 and the app is Instagram. So we noted in July, after Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, said in a post that the company was
looking to lean into entertainment and video after seeing the success of competitors like TikTok and YouTube. "We're no longer a photo-sharing app or a square photo-sharing … Read the full Story >>
