PetaPixel Wednesday September 9, 2026
Stock photo company Alamy is bringing in big changes to how it pays contributors — and, notes PetaPixel, many photographers are expecting less money as a result. The changes, announced in a blog post last month,introduce a new tier system that will see many contributors’ commission slashed from 40% to 20%. “Our objective is not simply to change commission rates. It’s to ensure we can continue investing in overall improvements,” noted Alamy managing director Lira Mendonca. Read the full Story >>
See Great Art Wednesday September 9, 2026
More than 130 of those photographs made by Carl Van Vechten are now in the collection Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, thanks to a gift from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Best known for documenting the Harlem Renaissance, Van Vechten was a writer and photographer who promoted Black artists, writers and musicians, notes See Great Art. Among the gifed photographs are images of Walter Chrysler Jr., whose collection formed the foundation of the museum. Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Wednesday September 9, 2026
Look at a photo taken by a smartphone today, and it’s hard to find much that’s technically wrong. Faces are bright and visible. The skies are pristine and blue. But in our current moment, the photos people are drawn to are not flawless — and that’s created a real problem for the people making smartphone cameras, notes The Verge. Isaac Reynolds, who leads the Pixel camera team at Google, is setting out to solve the dilemma with Camera Looks, a total rethink of how the camera captures and styles an image on the Pixel 11 smartphone series. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday September 9, 2026
The September issues of fashion magazines are big events and often laden with stars on their covers. This year British Vogue features actress Nicole Kidman, while American Vogue has model actress Kaia
Gerber (daughter of model Cindy Crawford) and actor Homer Gere (son of Richard Gere). Both covers, noted The Guardian recently, have stirred controversy. Not so, Dogue, Vogue's digital feature that
celebrates pup … Read the full Story >>
