TechCrunch Monday October 23, 2023
Berlin-based stock photography company EyeEm filed for bankruptcy in April, after photographers complained that they had stopped receiving money owed them. Now, notes PetaPixel, EyeEm has been purchased by Freepik, a Spain-based platform that provides images and other media. The new owner has reportedly begun paying at least some photographers. “We had photos already but ours were not good enough,” Freepik’s CEO Joaquin Cuenca Abela tells Tech Crunch. “EyeEm has a big library and community, and it’s a way of getting more photos on our platform.” He’s also interested in AI.
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David Schonauer Monday October 23, 2023
Pet photography has been on an upswing as a professional niche, and it shows no signs of slowing down: According to one estimate, the pet photography market is expecting to see "immense growth"
through 2030. The art of pet photography is also on an upswing, judging from the winners of the 2023 International Pet Photographer of the Year competition. Photographers from from 32 different … Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Friday October 20, 2023
DRIFT, the moniker for artist duo Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn, will stage a performance of Franchise Freedom, their famed drone performance, in New York City‘s Central Park on October 21, at 7 pm, 8 pm, and 9 pm. DRIFT last staged Franchise Freedom in December in honor of Art Basel Miami Beach’s 20th anniversary. The work premiered at the fair in 2017 and has only been staged a few times. But this performance will be grander, notes Art News.
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i-D Friday October 20, 2023
In the fall of 1972, native Floridian Bill Yates, then a photography student at the University of South Florida, ventured into the rural outskirts of Tampa, making his way through the deep backwaters of Hillsborough County. There he discovered the Sweetheart Roller Rink. The images he made through May 1973—work documenting a long lost teen culture—are on view in the exhibition “Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink” at the Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, CA. The work “peels back the deeper layers of the American South,” notes iD Vice.
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