Huge news in the photo sharing world today: SmugMug just announced that it has acquired Flickr from Yahoo, which was itself acquired by Verizon last year. This deal “will create the most influential photography community in the world,” SmugMug says.
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Last weekend, as March For Our Lives protests took place all across the country, the student co-editor-in-chief of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School newspaper said on the CNN show “Reliable Sources” that journalism is a form of activism. I was not surprised to see her quickly criticized on Twitter.
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Titonath Dith is shown outside the Cambodian Buddhist Society-Wat Sanghikaram on Feb. 2 in Mill Creek. He is a son of Dith Pran, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide and one of the protagonists of the movie, “The Killing Fields.”
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You might remember Andy Grimm, an Ohio photographer who was shot by Deputy Jake Shaw after he stopped to take pictures of a traffic stop and his tripod was mistaken for a gun. Grimm filed a lawsuit against the county, but lawyers say not only were the deputy’s actions “reasonable,” but Grimm’s own “negligence
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A 25-year-old male photographer was photographing a model on some railroad tracks in Downtown Fresno when he was struck and killed instantly by a northbound train.
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