Recently, Flickr was invited to a special two-day photowalk with several other social media influencers through parts of the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East district in Louisiana, United States. In this blog, Flickr employee Wilson Lam shares his unforgettable experience at the event through a collection of photos from his trip!
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Earlier this year, a group of ten young creatives who met through Flickr about a decade ago, decided to come together to recreate some of their older works in a series of self-portraits. Learn more about the #StillFlickring challenge and the photographers involved.
Andres Marti studied fine arts and design at the Pontificia Universidad in Bogota, Colombia. Six years ago, he co-founded the art brand Comes Cake and design studio Whatever Works allowing him to work within various realms of art including advertising, design, fashion, music, and photography. His work within the field of photography has caught quite a lot of attention due to its ironic uniqueness. Read more
Together is where photographers belong. We’re thrilled to announce that Flickr will be joining SmugMug to become the world’s best photo community! Photography is still at the heart of what we do, and the brands will continue to operate separately. Learn more.
Finding & Keeping Purpose
Dauntlessly spirited Rosie Hardy is a surreal fine arts photographer in a small town near Glossop, England, where she has access to the wild, forest like territory the majority of her photos encompass. She is currently working on a 365-day challenge, but not for any reason you may immediately assume.
Her 365-day challenge began six weeks after the passing of her boyfriend, Tim, who was devastatingly taken too soon after a batting melanoma. “It was my first big grief, and it’s only looking back that I can understand the magnitude the loss held. A few weeks in, I was struggling to get out of bed, find direction or purpose, and having started a 365 when I first picked up a camera at 17, reattempting the project seemed a fitting way to make sure I didn’t let photography slip away from me, too.”
Rosie explains how this challenge helped convey more than she expected. “It gave me something to think about other than his death, it gave me a way to channel my emotional state into something productive, it gave me connection and support from the people who’d followed my work and journey, and for that, I am so grateful.”
Rosie believes that art should be a reflection of the artist. She feels encouraged to take bigger emotional risks because she is confident in her photography’s ability to help her recover from even the greatest loss. In the same respect, her work is also based on intent. Her photography has and will never be about being “gallery worthy” or aesthetically neat, it’s about feeling good during the creation process- especially during the 365 project.
Her creation process goes above and beyond the typical, as it’s layered in her own passions. Although Rosie describes poetry as something she “dabbles” in, the captions of her photos are almost always beautiful enough to be considered poetry. Her exceedingly candid and forthright captions regularly give her followers a bitter taste of reality, layered in sweet sorrow and thoughtful, compelling prose.
Rosie has refused to sit in the passenger’s seat of life and has instead decided to utilize the good in life to create, to listen to cinematic classical music, take her kayaks onto the nearby lake and daydream up ideas for shoots.
The sincerity in her online presence has earned her a whopping 137.6 thousand followers. Her ability to be frank with her thoughts came from the fact that being a virtual public figure, she was going to be scrutinized at every angle anyway, so she might as well be judged for being her authentic self. Furthermore, this honesty has taken her to new heights the more she has studied behavioral psychology. Being able to express fear, grief, or other like issues is integral in a healthy process of moving forward. For her, this ingenuous sharing of her personal life has become “cathartic, artistic and integral to the structure” of her life.
If she could give one piece of advice to her younger self, it would be to put less pressure on herself to create photos with the perfect outcome. “I’d have more patience with the learning process, and also maintain that it’s more important to be passionate about what it is you want to get out of your system by creating the piece, than the piece itself!”
The photo above was chosen by the band Maroon 5 to use as their album cover art. Being chosen was not only an incredible accomplishment, but quite the relief as projects like these are what eases one of Rosie’s biggest fears- becoming a photographer who she doesn’t recognise. Only a small portion of her income comes from her personal work featured on Flickr, instagram, portfolio & Facebook. The majority of her income is derived from weddings, musician shoots and workshops. Although large brands are constantly requesting her talent, she remains highly selective of whom she chooses to work with in fear of the possibility she’ll over monetize her passion and “forget the reason I create what I create.”
Rosie will be speaking at Hagley Camera Club on April 10 – the ticket and raffle proceeds will be donated to her late boyfriend’s charity, the Tim Bacon Foundation.
Bridging the Gap
As a dedication to victims of universal queer hate crimes, Rob Woodcox uses his photographs to symbolize his belief in love and equality.
His fine art images have been featured on dozens of magazines and media sites, but what makes Woodcox’s work unique is his ability to make viewers question where the subjects come from by incorporating “strange or interesting elements.” See for yourself in our latest interview.
His photographs of homeless individuals from around the world started as “a personal statement of closure and then they go on to be a powerful statement of humanity.”
Read more about Lee Jeffries and his work on the Flickr Blog: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2017/11/28/honoring-lost-angels/
Flickr Hero of the Week: ‘Nara Line, Kyoto, Japan by Emre Çift’
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Today Flickr celebrates thirteen years of amazing photography - thirteen years, millions of photographers, and billions of images. This isn’t just our birthday, FlickrFam. It’s yours too! Stay rad.
Flickr Hero of the Week: Abstract sunset by Munzeer Mohamed, on Flickr