Time for a quick recap of what we’ve been up to over the last month at Flickr. There are so many things in the works so ICYMI, get caught up here!
Today we’re happy to welcome VCU Libraries, our 100th institution, to the Flickr Commons! The Commons helps institutions share their out-of-copyright images with the world and to empower the Flickr community and the general public to engage with the images by adding tags and comments.
21-year-old fine art and fashion photographer Morey Spellman set out last summer to interview conceptual artists he met on Flickr. In May, he plans to release “The Fine Art of Photography,” a book featuring twenty five interviews, including this excerpt with Amelia Fletcher.
SpaceX has recently started a Flickr account and uploaded a number of amazing photos, which they’ve licensed freely for use by the public and the news media.
3/20 is the International Day of Happiness established by UN. We, together with all other organizations, invite you to do anything to improve the well-being and happiness of human beings, including take your best photo for the theme #Happiness, to celebrate it.
#BeKindRewind was the #FlickrFriday theme last week, and we’ve received so many great photos for this somewhat vague but interesting theme. You showed us a great variety of imagination on the theme, from actual old things to some symbolic nostalgia feeling.
Today, we are releasing a browser extension called Flickr Tab that uses our unique algorithm to deliver the most interesting Flickr photos to your tabs in Chrome.
Yesterday we announced he #TwitterTuesday theme #Phone, and got many great submissions. We saw all sort of creativity from your photos, from how people rely on the phone, to the connections of people by phone. Yes, we love phones, and your photos too.
As a photographer specializing in photographing people and their pets, Norah Levine has met many people who have a deep connection to their animals. But once she began photographing the homeless and their pets, she realized how much of a lifeline animals can truly be.
