News is a fickle and fleeting medium but several stories have cropped up based on discovered photos that show the world a new perspective on major historical events. Here are three of the best examples which provide proof once again (as if that is needed) that photography offers the definitive word on the human experience some choose to call life.
This week’s Phottix Weekly Photo comes from flickr’s Arshad Inamdar . How was it shot?
In a bizarre case of art imitating life the woman behind the anti photo theft campaign PhotoStealers has had her own photos stolen by a photographer operating as In A Flash Photography based in Canada.
In response to Getty Images’ decision last month to open up vast chunks of their image collection for free editorial use, and Reuters doing something similar with their collection of photojournalist images, a new website has launched that hands control back to the photographer. The founder, and man behind eCommerce business Fine Art America, Sean Broihier made a bold declaration to Upstart criticizing the current system that gives photographers little control, leaving them open to exploitation by the established image licensing firms.
“I always wanted to be in the licensing business,”he says. “If you’re an artist or photographer, you should be able to dictate the price for your images and what’s happened with existing sites is that it’s a race to the bottom.”