DIGIDAY Thursday December 18, 2025
Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co and Vox Media have joined the growing list of publishers supporting the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Collective AI licensing framework, designed to standardize how publishers tell AI systems what content they can use, and how they must pay. The RSL Collective now has over 50 partners, notes Digiday. People Inc., Ziff Davis, Yahoo, Reddit, Medium and Quora had already joined the RSL Collective when it launched in September. Read the full Story >>
i-D Thursday December 18, 2025
The go-see, one of the classic acts in fashion’s circus, is infamous for its strangeness and ambiguity, notes i-D. Photographer Ramona Jingru Wang found the process of shooting new models—with no promise of a job for either party—to be difficult. As she searched for ways to be more intentional with her go-see choices, she met stylist Momoè Sadamatsu. Together, the pair created the monograph GO SEE*, featuring models from the Asian diaspora, styled by Sadamatsu with the model’s own personality and tastes in mind. See also: Vogue. Read the full Story >>
Wallpaper Thursday December 18, 2025
If you pine for the old days before Instagram’s pivot to video — when the app served primarily as a hub for photographers to share their images — you may be interested in Irys, a platform, notes Wallpaper, designed by photographers for photographers. It is the brainchild of photographer Alan Schaller, who assembled a team of photo industry players to create the app. Schaller says Irys is meant to actively celebrate the art of photography, not video, reels or AI, with a design partly inspired by the traditional photographic monograph. Read the full Story >>
Smithsonian Thursday December 18, 2025
“Photography’s most compelling voices this year looked backward, outward and inward to re-examine how images shape our understanding of the natural world, cultural rituals and the roots of the medium itself.” So notes Smithsonian magazine, which has selected what it considers the ten best photography books of 2025. Among them: Photographer Claire Rosen's Birds of a Feather, a collection of 120 portraits of 55 types of live birds set against historically inspired backdrops. Read the full Story >>
